A Wonder in the Midnight Hour By Lindsay Roberts

"If you're in the midnight hour right nowif you are in the tough time, the hard time, and you are feeling like you're in bondage, like something has literally chained you up, start to praise God."

There's a story in Acts 16 about how the Apostle Paul and his traveling companion Silas had been beaten and thrown in jail for casting a malignant spirit out of a slave girl who had been hectoring them. Although they were suffering for something they had done that was right, they were not whining or whinging.
They weren't asserting stuff like, "Oh, God, where were you when we needed you?" Instead, they started praying, singing hymns and praising God, verse 25 tell us, even at the midnight hour. The midnight hour or the middle of the night, as we might say it now is often one of the toughest times of the day. Paul and Silas had been severely beaten.
Their legs were chained in stocks. To the other captives who could see their situation, it must have looked as hopeless as their own. And as they were praising Him, it asserts quite simply a great rumbling started to occur, and the prison doors were thrown open. The chains holding not just Paul and Silas, but all the prisoners, were
I believe that as we offer gratitude to God in the middle of our situation particularly when it is a rough one, or an ugly one our thanksgiving opens the gates, or the doors, of heaven and we're allowed to go into the court rooms of God singing praises to Him. And as our praise begins to fill the ears of God Himself, it draws Him into our situationbecause Psalm 22:3 tells us that God lives and dwells in the praises of His people. And when God becomes a part of our situation, irrespective of how bad it is, that situation can begin to change and line up with the will of God. What's holding you bound right now? What is the jail you are dealing with? Is a finance prison? A prison of physical pain? An emotional or family prison? Or it could be a prison of some other kind.

For in the middle of that problem he is still good, as Psalm 100 tells us, and he is able to set the captive free. And I pray for God to set you free and make you entire, in Jesus' name.

About Richard Roberts

Richard is the Boss and CEO of Oral Roberts Evangelistic organisation and also co-chairman of World Charming Bible Ministries. He and his other half, Lindsay, host a nationally syndicated Television program, the spot for Miracles : Your Hour of Healing-a one-hour, interactive daily broadcast that reaches out to millions. On this unique healing program, Richard ministers in the power of the Holy Spirit, praying for those that are sick or hurting in some area of their lives, and often giving categorical words of data about how God is touching people with His healing power. The spot for Miracles has received more than 117,000 telephone calls to date from spectators who have reported miracles and answers to prayer.
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