Acts 16

Though I've heard it before; but, it just so clearly stood out this time as I was preparing the lesson for this study - It is so amazing that while Paul and Silas had been falsely accused, beaten and severely flogged, thrown into prison without a fair trial, and fastened to stocks; they were still able to pray and sing hymns!  And more than that, all the other prisoners listened.  Then, when an earthquake came, releasing them, they stayed in order to witness to the jailer and his household.

This challenges me to evaluate whether I have that attitude of prayer and praise, whenever I am in the midst of difficult trials?   And, it shows me how God can use those situations to reach others as well, in this case, the other prisoners and the jailer. Despite the difficulties they faced in Macedonia, they were able to start the Philippian church; which grew into one in which Paul writes that he always remembers them with joy.