May 27, 2025 • 16 mins
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Islamic mystics found divine grace in dhikr meditation, Islamic scholars revealed prayer as mindful surrender, Islamic tradition teaches that God's love manifests through conscious worship, Islamic wisdom shows how meditation deepens faith, Islamic prayer practices connect every believer with divine truth. Judaism proclaims that God dwells in every moment, Judaism reveals divine wisdom through contemplative practice, Judaism teaches how prayer becomes mindful awareness, Judaism demonstrates how meditation enriches faith, Judaism shows how love flows through traditional worship.
Buddhism teaches mindfulness as the path to wisdom, Buddhism demonstrates how meditation opens the heart to truth, Buddhism shows how prayer and mindfulness unite, Buddhism reveals how love flows through compassionate awareness, Buddhism teaches how peace emerges through contemplative practice. Hinduism announces that divine consciousness permeates everything, Hinduism teaches meditation as divine communion, Hinduism reveals how prayer opens the heart to God, Hinduism demonstrates how mindfulness becomes worship, Hinduism shows how love flows through devotional practice.
Taoism whispers that the Way flows through stillness, Taoism teaches wisdom through mindful presence, Taoism reveals how meditation connects with divine truth, Taoism demonstrates how prayer becomes conscious awareness, Taoism shows how love emerges through contemplative practice. Confucianism demonstrates that wisdom emerges through ethical mindfulness, Confucianism teaches divine virtue through conscious living, Confucianism reveals how meditation enriches moral practice, Confucianism shows how prayer becomes contemplative wisdom.
Your church becomes a meditation hall, your meditation cushion transforms into an altar of worship, your prayer becomes mindful breathing, and your mindfulness evolves into pure worship. This is where Christian contemplation meets Buddhist awareness, where Jewish mysticism embraces Islamic surrender, where Hindu devotion flows into Taoist simplicity, where Confucian ethics merge with divine joy found in every faith tradition.
Protestant communities embrace contemplative practice, Protestant churches integrate meditation with traditional worship, Protestant theology reveals how mindfulness deepens faith, Protestant traditions show how prayer becomes contemplative worship, Protestant wisdom demonstrates how Jesus taught mindful awareness. Catholic traditions deepen through Eastern wisdom, Catholic parishes discover mindfulness within their faith, Catholic theology embraces contemplative meditation, Catholic communities find God through mindful prayer, Catholic traditions show how Jesus practiced contemplative awareness.
Orthodox spirituality expands through mindful prayer, Orthodox communities find God in present-moment awareness, Orthodox theology embraces contemplative meditation, Ortho
In the sacred silence between heartbeats, where ancient wisdom dissolves modern chaos, Religious Mindfulness awakens the eternal truth that echoes through every faith tradition. Here, the timeless teachings of Jesus Christ resonate with Buddhist meditation practices, while Islamic prayer techniques flow seamlessly into Hindu mindfulness, creating a divine symphony where Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Taoism, and Confucianism unite in perfect grace.
Each episode transforms ordinary moments into sacred encounters, where the love of God vibrates through every breath, every meditation, and every prayer. Whether you follow the Protestant tradition, embrace Catholic wisdom, seek Orthodox truth, find joy in Pentecostal worship, or discover peace through Presbyterian contemplation, this podcast reveals how mindfulness becomes the universal language of faith. Every church community finds divine wisdom through contemplative theology that transcends religious boundaries.
Jesus taught mindfulness in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus demonstrated prayer through conscious presence, Jesus embodied love through divine awareness, Jesus showed how meditation deepens faith, Jesus revealed that God dwells in every mindful moment. The Bible echoes with mindfulness teachings, the Bible reveals that God dwells in conscious presence, the Bible demonstrates how prayer and meditation unite the soul with divine wisdom, the Bible teaches how Christianity embraces mindful worship.
Islamic mystics found divine grace in dhikr meditation, Islamic scholars revealed prayer as mindful surrender, Islamic tradition teaches that God's love manifests through conscious worship, Islamic wisdom shows how meditation deepens faith, Islamic prayer practices connect every believer with divine truth. Judaism proclaims that God dwells in every moment, Judaism reveals divine wisdom through contemplative practice, Judaism teaches how prayer becomes mindful awareness, Judaism demonstrates how meditation enriches faith, Judaism shows how love flows through traditional worship.
Buddhism teaches mindfulness as the path to wisdom, Buddhism demonstrates how meditation opens the heart to truth, Buddhism shows how prayer and mindfulness unite, Buddhism reveals how love flows through compassionate awareness, Buddhism teaches how peace emerges through contemplative practice. Hinduism announces that divine consciousness permeates everything, Hinduism teaches meditation as divine communion, Hinduism reveals how prayer opens the heart to God, Hinduism demonstrates how mindfulness becomes worship, Hinduism shows how love flows through devotional practice.
Taoism whispers that the Way flows through stillness, Taoism teaches wisdom through mindful presence, Taoism reveals how meditation connects with divine truth, Taoism demonstrates how prayer becomes conscious awareness, Taoism shows how love emerges through contemplative practice. Confucianism demonstrates that wisdom emerges through ethical mindfulness, Confucianism teaches divine virtue through conscious living, Confucianism reveals how meditation enriches moral practice, Confucianism shows how prayer becomes contemplative wisdom.
Your church becomes a meditation hall, your meditation cushion transforms into an altar of worship, your prayer becomes mindful breathing, and your mindfulness evolves into pure worship. This is where Christian contemplation meets Buddhist awareness, where Jewish mysticism embraces Islamic surrender, where Hindu devotion flows into Taoist simplicity, where Confucian ethics merge with divine joy found in every faith tradition.
Protestant communities embrace contemplative practice, Protestant churches integrate meditation with traditional worship, Protestant theology reveals how mindfulness deepens faith, Protestant traditions show how prayer becomes contemplative worship, Protestant wisdom demonstrates how Jesus taught mindful awareness. Catholic traditions deepen through Eastern wisdom, Catholic parishes discover mindfulness within their faith, Catholic theology embraces contemplative meditation, Catholic communities find God through mindful prayer, Catholic traditions show how Jesus practiced contemplative awareness.
Orthodox spirituality expands through mindful prayer, Orthodox communities find God in present-moment awareness, Orthodox theology embraces contemplative meditation, Ortho
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The enemy always wants to fight you one on one
in isolation. If you can look back over the times
in your life where you were the most discouraged, I
guarantee you that it was because you allowed yourself to
become isolated. And you may even have had people around
(00:21):
you who wanted to help you, but you were in solitary.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Holly told me about a study.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I don't know if it's true, and please don't write
me any animal rights letters about this.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
But they took two monkeys.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And they put them in an experiment to see if
they could scare the monkeys.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So they did it two ways.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
The first time, they put the monkeys in separate cages
and they measured the cortisol the stress hormone, and it
measured off the charts. They would flash lights and make
loud sounds. And I know they shouldn't have treated those
monkeys like that.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I didn't do the experiment.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I just heard about it from Holly, so write heard
about it if you don't like it. But they put
him in the cage alone and measured the stress, and
then they put him in the cage together and they
did the same experiment, the same flashing lights, the same
loud sounds, but the stress level when they were in
(01:26):
the cage together was half what it was when they
were apart. Oh God, touch Somebody say, will you be
my monkey? Because if I'm gonna have to go through hell,
at least don't make me go through it alone. Come on, somebody,
(01:46):
it said Paul.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And silence. Now that little and is.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The devil's problem, because if he would have wanted to
kept you bound, he shouldn't have let you get to
church today. If they thin could keep you in the
cage by yourself, he can.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
He can torm me.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You with fear.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Ah, But I got a connection to them. Come on, shot,
somebody say, make the connection.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Makes a connection? Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
If you would have stayed home, you might have given up.
But you came to church around some praising.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
People, some praying people, some worshiping.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
People, some people who know how to rejoice.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
He put them in the cell. Big mistake, because Paul's
kind of grumpy.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So if you put him by himself, he might he
might start to get a little negative. You know, is midnight,
I was trying to serve God. I can't get comfortable
because they beat me on my right side, and they
beat me on my left side. I can't even turn
all the way around because my feet are in these stocks.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And all of a sudden I hear Silas.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Silas starts singing, talking about who.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
This boo oh nothing less then Jesus bloom and righteousness.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Pulsa, shut up, Silas, you're so sleep I don't know
how long we're gonna be here.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Silas kept singing.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
He said, I dare not trust the sweetest frame.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But he did that little run. He did that little run.
Paul sat up, and Paul said, holyly on Jesus' name,
And it was midnight. So then Sila said.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
When Tarker sees to the hottest face, I rest on
his d changing grace.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You take it. Paul, Paul say, every.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
High and stormy game, my anchor hos oh, my head hurts,
but my anchor.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
My back is raw from where they beat me with rods.
But my anchor.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I went through some stuff this week, and I got
some storms.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
In my life. But like weeping the there and then
they sang a to it.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
They said, on Christ the side rock, I said, on
the ground, all the ground is sick.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Said this, Alla said, you remember this one?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Why can wash oh wait, it. See possay, Yeah, I
know nothing, but the blood Outius said he shouldn't have
put them in the cell together. He should have kept
them where they couldn't hear each other. He shouldn't have
(05:58):
let us come together.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Today, says break.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
When we come together, all right, that's when we come together.
And all the prisoners were listening to them. I want
to see how these servants of the Most High God
would respond in the darkness of a prison cell. And
(06:27):
they made a connection, and when they got to a
certain point, the ground started to shake. Okay, devil, you
might keep my feet from moving, but you can't keep my.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Voice from singing.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I might not be able to move my feet, but
I can lift my hands. I might not be able
to move my feet, but I can lift my voice.
I might not be able to move my feet, but
I can lift my eyes.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
See here's the principle. You've got to use what's.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Loose to shake the shackles off of what is bound.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, yeah, this is.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Gonna set somebody free because you only focus on.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Where you're bound. So you stay that way.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Your perspective is either your prison or your passport. Paul said,
I might be in changed, but I'm not changed because
the word of God and the ground started to shake.
(08:01):
God set their feet free by shaking the foundation.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
That their feet were connected to.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Have you had some shaking going on in your life recently?
Have you had some things that you were standing on
start to shake beneath you when the earthquake comes, it
can kind of feel like there's no stability in your life.
But I came to announce that the reason God has
shaken the ground is to break your chains. He's gonna
(08:32):
shake the foundation to break what you're bound to.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Started to shake the foundation. He started to shake the foundation.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And it says that when the foundation began to give way,
everyone's chains were loose.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It was a chain reaction.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
So are you going to let your change break your praise?
Because some people do. Some of you felt today like
you couldn't even sing along with the worship team because
(09:25):
you're bound in an area of your life, and so
you don't even feel like you can lift your voice,
lift your hands. You don't even feel worthy to do it,
and you let your chains break your praise.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
But there is a praise that will break your chains.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And I make the decision every day of my life
through my perspective, whether I'm gonna let chains make my
praise or whether I'm gonna command my praise to break
my chains. I want to see that all up on Instagram,
(10:09):
all up on Facebook. I want everybody who has access
to any social media account, by one hour after this sermon,
I want you to post on whatever my space LinkedIn,
send it in the mail to the White House, whatever
you want to do to communicate the message to the world.
Tell them like this, my praise breaks change. I'm sick
(10:37):
of my change telling my praise how high it can go.
I'm about to let my praise tell my change.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
You stop right here.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
You'll keep me negative, you'll keep me bow, you can
be discouraged, you'll.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Keep me defeated. Imagine the other approach.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Silence turns to Paul and says, man, this sucks. And
Paul turns to Silace and says, yeah it does. And
Silas said, I thought God was gonna take care of us.
I thought he was our protector. Paul said, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
You know, maybe he's not worth serving after all, and
Sila says, yeah, So when we get out of here,
let's tone it down a little bit.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And Paul says.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You know that wouldn't be such a bad idea. I'm
a smart man, and I know I could do better
than spending the night in this jail cell. See, the
decisions that you're making a result of the conversations that
you're having. The conversations are the result of the connections
that you've made, and the connections that you've made have
formed the perspective that you've had, And that's why some
people stay stuck. Perspective is a connection. And the reason
(12:00):
in Silas saying, and the reason Paul prayed, and the
reason they were free before their chaine ever fell off.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You hear me, They were freed before they were freed.
The reason that they were able to praise.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
When they couldn't move, and able to hope when they
couldn't see, is because their perspective was not connected to
their pain. Their perspective was connected to their purpose. Your
(12:47):
perspective is a product of your connections. The Gospel had
never been to Europe before. Up until this point, the
Gospel had been held captive in the Middle East, and
God was setting the message free.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
But to set the message.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Free, he had to let Paul and Silas get locked up.
And so when you look at it out of context,
it looks like that Paul and Silas had been forgotten about.
They didn't see it that way. They saw a higher purpose.
(13:31):
So they had a greater perspective because they kept it
in context of their calling. So, while the foundations were
shaking in the prison, the foundation of faith was being
laid on the continent of Europe. And when foundations are
(13:52):
being shaken in our lives, God is laying a foundation
of greater faith.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
For everybody who.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Is experiencing the shackles or the shaking today.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I wanted to remind you of your purpose.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That the purpose of the Lord stands firm, that the
purpose of the Lord is forever, that his ways are
above our ways, and his thoughts above our thoughts.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And if you can.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Sing through the shaking and stand through the shaking, you
will see the goodness of the Lord in the land
of the Living. Touch somebody say, I'm free, I'm free,
I'm free, I'm free to see things like God sees things.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
The author of Hebrews said that everything that.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Can be shaken must be shaken, so that what can't
be shaken will remain. Stuff is shaking in your life today.
God is breaking connections to things. God is breaking connections
to foundations that you've stood on that are unstable. That's
what the shaking is about. He's setting you free. Jesus came,
(15:12):
I said, I came to open the eyes of the blind.
I came to declare liberty to the bow. I came
to release the oppressed. And I'm gonna I'm gonna. I'm
gonna loose your shackles by shaking your foundation.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I know you want him to come up and.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Louse you with a key, but he said, I'm not
gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
With a key.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I'm gonna loose your feet with the shaking of your foundations.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Hey, thank you for watching.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Make sure you subscribe to this channel so you don't
miss a single video or live stream. And share this
video with a friend, and don't forget you can join
me live every Sunday Day.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Thanks again for watching.
The enemy always wants to fight you one on one
in isolation. If you can look back over the times
in your life where you were the most discouraged, I
guarantee you that it was because you allowed yourself to
become isolated. And you may even have had people around
(00:21):
you who wanted to help you, but you were in solitary.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Holly told me about a study.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I don't know if it's true, and please don't write
me any animal rights letters about this.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
But they took two monkeys.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And they put them in an experiment to see if
they could scare the monkeys.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So they did it two ways.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
The first time, they put the monkeys in separate cages
and they measured the cortisol the stress hormone, and it
measured off the charts. They would flash lights and make
loud sounds. And I know they shouldn't have treated those
monkeys like that.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I didn't do the experiment.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I just heard about it from Holly, so write heard
about it if you don't like it. But they put
him in the cage alone and measured the stress, and
then they put him in the cage together and they
did the same experiment, the same flashing lights, the same
loud sounds, but the stress level when they were in
(01:26):
the cage together was half what it was when they
were apart. Oh God, touch Somebody say, will you be
my monkey? Because if I'm gonna have to go through hell,
at least don't make me go through it alone. Come on, somebody,
(01:46):
it said Paul.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And silence. Now that little and is.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The devil's problem, because if he would have wanted to
kept you bound, he shouldn't have let you get to
church today. If they thin could keep you in the
cage by yourself, he can.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
He can torm me.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You with fear.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Ah, But I got a connection to them. Come on, shot,
somebody say, make the connection.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Makes a connection? Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
If you would have stayed home, you might have given up.
But you came to church around some praising.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
People, some praying people, some worshiping.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
People, some people who know how to rejoice.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
He put them in the cell. Big mistake, because Paul's
kind of grumpy.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So if you put him by himself, he might he
might start to get a little negative. You know, is midnight,
I was trying to serve God. I can't get comfortable
because they beat me on my right side, and they
beat me on my left side. I can't even turn
all the way around because my feet are in these stocks.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And all of a sudden I hear Silas.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Silas starts singing, talking about who.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
This boo oh nothing less then Jesus bloom and righteousness.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Pulsa, shut up, Silas, you're so sleep I don't know
how long we're gonna be here.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Silas kept singing.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
He said, I dare not trust the sweetest frame.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But he did that little run. He did that little run.
Paul sat up, and Paul said, holyly on Jesus' name,
And it was midnight. So then Sila said.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
When Tarker sees to the hottest face, I rest on
his d changing grace.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You take it. Paul, Paul say, every.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
High and stormy game, my anchor hos oh, my head hurts,
but my anchor.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
My back is raw from where they beat me with rods.
But my anchor.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I went through some stuff this week, and I got
some storms.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
In my life. But like weeping the there and then
they sang a to it.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
They said, on Christ the side rock, I said, on
the ground, all the ground is sick.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Said this, Alla said, you remember this one?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Why can wash oh wait, it. See possay, Yeah, I
know nothing, but the blood Outius said he shouldn't have
put them in the cell together. He should have kept
them where they couldn't hear each other. He shouldn't have
(05:58):
let us come together.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Today, says break.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
When we come together, all right, that's when we come together.
And all the prisoners were listening to them. I want
to see how these servants of the Most High God
would respond in the darkness of a prison cell. And
(06:27):
they made a connection, and when they got to a
certain point, the ground started to shake. Okay, devil, you
might keep my feet from moving, but you can't keep my.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Voice from singing.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I might not be able to move my feet, but
I can lift my hands. I might not be able
to move my feet, but I can lift my voice.
I might not be able to move my feet, but
I can lift my eyes.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
See here's the principle. You've got to use what's.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Loose to shake the shackles off of what is bound.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, yeah, this is.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Gonna set somebody free because you only focus on.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Where you're bound. So you stay that way.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Your perspective is either your prison or your passport. Paul said,
I might be in changed, but I'm not changed because
the word of God and the ground started to shake.
(08:01):
God set their feet free by shaking the foundation.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
That their feet were connected to.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Have you had some shaking going on in your life recently?
Have you had some things that you were standing on
start to shake beneath you when the earthquake comes, it
can kind of feel like there's no stability in your life.
But I came to announce that the reason God has
shaken the ground is to break your chains. He's gonna
(08:32):
shake the foundation to break what you're bound to.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Started to shake the foundation. He started to shake the foundation.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And it says that when the foundation began to give way,
everyone's chains were loose.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It was a chain reaction.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
So are you going to let your change break your praise?
Because some people do. Some of you felt today like
you couldn't even sing along with the worship team because
(09:25):
you're bound in an area of your life, and so
you don't even feel like you can lift your voice,
lift your hands. You don't even feel worthy to do it,
and you let your chains break your praise.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
But there is a praise that will break your chains.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And I make the decision every day of my life
through my perspective, whether I'm gonna let chains make my
praise or whether I'm gonna command my praise to break
my chains. I want to see that all up on Instagram,
(10:09):
all up on Facebook. I want everybody who has access
to any social media account, by one hour after this sermon,
I want you to post on whatever my space LinkedIn,
send it in the mail to the White House, whatever
you want to do to communicate the message to the world.
Tell them like this, my praise breaks change. I'm sick
(10:37):
of my change telling my praise how high it can go.
I'm about to let my praise tell my change.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
You stop right here.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
You'll keep me negative, you'll keep me bow, you can
be discouraged, you'll.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Keep me defeated. Imagine the other approach.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Silence turns to Paul and says, man, this sucks. And
Paul turns to Silace and says, yeah it does. And
Silas said, I thought God was gonna take care of us.
I thought he was our protector. Paul said, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
You know, maybe he's not worth serving after all, and
Sila says, yeah, So when we get out of here,
let's tone it down a little bit.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And Paul says.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You know that wouldn't be such a bad idea. I'm
a smart man, and I know I could do better
than spending the night in this jail cell. See, the
decisions that you're making a result of the conversations that
you're having. The conversations are the result of the connections
that you've made, and the connections that you've made have
formed the perspective that you've had, And that's why some
people stay stuck. Perspective is a connection. And the reason
(12:00):
in Silas saying, and the reason Paul prayed, and the
reason they were free before their chaine ever fell off.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You hear me, They were freed before they were freed.
The reason that they were able to praise.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
When they couldn't move, and able to hope when they
couldn't see, is because their perspective was not connected to
their pain. Their perspective was connected to their purpose. Your
(12:47):
perspective is a product of your connections. The Gospel had
never been to Europe before. Up until this point, the
Gospel had been held captive in the Middle East, and
God was setting the message free.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
But to set the message.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Free, he had to let Paul and Silas get locked up.
And so when you look at it out of context,
it looks like that Paul and Silas had been forgotten about.
They didn't see it that way. They saw a higher purpose.
(13:31):
So they had a greater perspective because they kept it
in context of their calling. So, while the foundations were
shaking in the prison, the foundation of faith was being
laid on the continent of Europe. And when foundations are
(13:52):
being shaken in our lives, God is laying a foundation
of greater faith.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
For everybody who.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Is experiencing the shackles or the shaking today.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I wanted to remind you of your purpose.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That the purpose of the Lord stands firm, that the
purpose of the Lord is forever, that his ways are
above our ways, and his thoughts above our thoughts.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And if you can.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Sing through the shaking and stand through the shaking, you
will see the goodness of the Lord in the land
of the Living. Touch somebody say, I'm free, I'm free,
I'm free, I'm free to see things like God sees things.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
The author of Hebrews said that everything that.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Can be shaken must be shaken, so that what can't
be shaken will remain. Stuff is shaking in your life today.
God is breaking connections to things. God is breaking connections
to foundations that you've stood on that are unstable. That's
what the shaking is about. He's setting you free. Jesus came,
(15:12):
I said, I came to open the eyes of the blind.
I came to declare liberty to the bow. I came
to release the oppressed. And I'm gonna I'm gonna. I'm
gonna loose your shackles by shaking your foundation.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I know you want him to come up and.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Louse you with a key, but he said, I'm not
gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
With a key.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I'm gonna loose your feet with the shaking of your foundations.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
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Speaker 1 (15:51):
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