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Praise, love, and seek the Lord

All doors will open and all chains will fall if you continue with God

24/11/2017

By: Apostle Valdemiro Santiago

In Act 16:16; Apostle Paul relates that once, when going to the Church, found a young man with a spirit of divination, such as witchcraft. People are impressed at certain places, where an evil spirit takes the other body, he calls, unlike God, who calls us children and servants, where that spirit says something that impresses, by what is caused in your life as it is he who causes such evil. The young lady that Paul met was possessed and was sponsored by businessmen, and she brought profits. When Paul and Silas went to church to pray, the demon, who knows those who love God, was manifested and started screaming, to acknowledge that they herald the salvation. Shame the devil to be obliged to confess it because the Holy Spirit ordered to credit the two of them. The young man spent days following Paul and Silas and repeating it constantly, until Paul gets tired and scold and expel the demon from the life of that girl. Paul did a good thing to that woman and to those who were victims of that demon of divination, but it didn`t please either the people or authorities. For expelling the devil, they were arrested, dragged, and carried on by the authorities. God's men were thrown into prison and heard that disturbed the city with costumes they could not receive nor practice because they were Romans. The crowd rose up together against them. It's not easy for who announces the word of God. The authorities sent the executioners to beat them, and then they hit enough, threw both in jail, bleeding. They were arrested as criminals of high dangerousness. They were caught in the exercise of faith, wronged by the word of God.

When the situation is bad, Satan does not miss the opportunity of suggesting blasphemy, resignation. Maybe you live an unfair situation with phrases of the devil, but see that the attitude of Paul and Silas was praise and pray to God. The power of prayer is how much you love God.

Imagine, after being humiliated, arrested, wounded, accused, having the strength to praise and worshiping God. It's hard, but if something bad and contrary happens to you at that stage of life, my advice is that you should pray and sing praises to God. It is faith because God meant a lot in their lives. What makes a person to be defeated during the hardship of life is to blaspheme, whisper, give up. Live bad phases in life, we're battered by crises, disease, problems, but I learned that in hardship condition what makes chains fall is to acknowledge God in our life, so the word says that we recognize in all our ways. Maybe you have already questioned God how long you will live this tribulation. God tells you that, if you understand that He is worthy of worship and praise, everything that you expect will come suddenly. How humiliating the men of God, but I imagine the news talking about the earthquake that not scratched anyone because it came from God, narrating the miracle in favor of their lives. They all received the liberty because those other prisoners they heard gave importance to what was taught and were given. The chains fell not only the wronged, but to every prisoners. And every doors opened. If you pray, praise and get, God opens all the doors. With fear of punishment for the escape of the prisoners, the jailer was going to commit suicide, but Paul stopped him. This man stood before them and asked what I should do to be saved. The same man who put the shackles on the feet of them underwent them, through the will of the Lord. All returned home and their pain is over because the men who had reason to blaspheme, mumbling and quit, praised, prayed and worshiped the Lord. This is how God will change your life, adoring, praising and seeking understanding God's greatness and recognizing in all ways.