A mob formed in Philippi against Paul and Silas.  Why?  What had they done? Paul had delivered an enslaved girl who was possessed by an evil spirit of divination.  She brought money to her masters by telling fortunes.  Those men no longer had their source of income and they seized Paul and Silas and […]

  A miracle resulted when the power of the name of Jesus delivered a girl from a spirit of divination by Paul.  (Acts 16:16-18) The masters of that girl were angry.  She was a source of income to them by telling fortunes.  Their money-maker was taken away when she was delivered from that demon. How […]

The prayer of the week is based on John 14:13-14 Your word states that whatever I ask in Your name, Lord Jesus, that will you do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  Wow.  That is what Paul did in the streets of Philippi when he delivered a girl from demon possession […]

  How often do followers of Christ ignore or forget the power that is in the very name of Jesus Christ?  Paul did not forget as he and three other men walked the streets of Philippi. What happened?  Let Scripture tell us: (NASB) Acts 16:16-18 “It happened that as we were going to the place […]

  Lydia learned about the Lord Jesus Christ as she sat with a group of women listening to Paul by a river in Philippi.  And as the Lord opened her heart she responded to what she heard.  (Acts 16:13-14) Lydia and her household believed and were baptized. Lydia’s faith was in the Lord Jesus and […]

  Lydia was from another city, Thyatira.  She was an entrepreneur – she sold purple fabric for a living.  She was a spiritual woman for she worshiped God.  She was an attentive woman to what others said – she listened to what Paul had to say on a Sabbath day about faith in the living […]

  Paul, Silas, Timothy and Luke had a travel itinerary…from the seaport town of Troas they sailed a straight course for the island of Samothrace.  The next day they sailed to Neapolis and then they walked inland to a leading town in the district of Macedonia, Philippi.  (Acts 16:11-12) These men had responded to the […]