June 28, 2025 … Service Interrupted …

June 28, 2025 … Service Interrupted    …  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Naomi Raine and Chandler Moore singing… Paul and Silas (At Midnight),  relating, in song, the story of Paul and Silas in jail in Philippi. 

Paul and Silas, imprisoned in Philippi 

Highlight Passage: … Acts 16:29-39  … [NLT] … 

29 The jailer called for lights and ran to the dungeon and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. 30 Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”            

…  The jailer in Philippi learns how to be saved from Paul and Silas after an earthquake where God’s servants were jailed unjustly.   

           

Highlight Passage (in context)  … Acts 16:16-32  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Luke relates the story of Paul and Silas, being interrupted in serving God by an imprisonment in Philippi and how the two servants were used by God to share the Gospel.  

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 23:1-6  (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK … 

… David sings of God being his Good Shepherd, being with him ALWAYS.

Reference Passage: …Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  God’s wisdom, from Solomon, that trusting in God leads us to follow God’s ways and avoiding our own desires. 

Reference Passage: … Luke 9:23 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK …

… Jesus calls His Disciples and followers to give up their own way and to set aside their personal circumstances to follow Christ.

Reference Passage: …Galatians 5:22-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul shows the results of being fruitful in following God’s ways.  

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 4:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Paul witnesses to fellow Christians that they (we) all are called by God to serve God by serving one another . ALWAYS …

Reference Passage: … Philippians 2:3-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Paul also exhorts fellow Christians to take on the attitude of Christ to always be in service to others in our lives.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Matt Lucas  … AT THIS LINK        … related a story about  a man, Manuel, and his daughter, who were stopped at a red light on the way to church.  Being late, the interruption was frustrating for Manuel; but his daughter noticed a woman on the side of the road, trying to change the tire on her car.   The daughter immediately said  to her dad, “Daddy, you’re good at changing tires,” … “You should help her.”  And right then Manuel knew this was a divine appointment and stopped to help the woman, … even inviting her to join them at church.  

Today’s ODB entry, and especially the biblical story of Paul and Silas in the jail in Philippi (see photo), as well as the Scriptures I uncovered in my devotional time with God this morning, convinced me that I need to be more alert to see divine interruptions each day, as I am surrendered to follow Christ.  How about you?   Could’t we all do more to look for God’s call to serve Him along the way of life.

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for enabling me to see Your call to service in the interruptions of my walk in life.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again today, Lord. … to show us Your call to serve You, even today, as we do all we can to follow You.    … Amen

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