Tagged: Acts 16

  Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means. She brought her owners a great profit by fortune-telling. She followed behind Paul and us and kept crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.” She continued to do this for many days. But Paul became greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out of her at once. Acts 16:16-18 Slave Girl by Audrey Frank   Girl on a dusty road Following close Shouting… Read More

The Lord sets prisoners free. Psalm 146:7 In former Muslim Esther Ahmad’s brave new release, Defying Jihad (Tyndale Momentum, 2019), she describes the supernatural peace she felt even as an angry mob outside her family's home demanded her death. As she stood inside listening to their cruel threats, she thought of Daniel’s three friends in the furnace and the fourth man who stood with them in that fiery prison. Even in the face of possible death, Esther knew she was a prisoner set free by the One who stood beside her on that terrible night. She knew the Lord who sets prisoners free, and even in her darkest hour, she was free indeed. Prisons cannot hold those who trust in the Lord.  Instead of captivity,… Read More