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Words by God/Music by Doug Schroeder
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May 14, 2025
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Story behind the song
This song was composed on 5/14/2025. It is part of my Acts project. I am dividing Acts 16 into three parts: 1) Paul receiving the call from God to bring the gospel into Europe; specifically Macedonia, 2) The ministry of Paul, Barnabas, Timothy, and Luke in Philippi up until their imprisonment, and 3) their miraculous release from prison and the conversion of the Philippine jailor and his family to Christianity.
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11Therefore, sailing from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, and the next day came to Neapolis,
12and from there to Philippi, which is the foremost city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city for some days.
13And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met there.
14Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul.
15And when she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay." So she persuaded us.
16Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.
17This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, "These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation."
18And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And he came out that very hour.
19But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.
20And they brought them to the magistrates, and said, "These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city;
21and they teach customs which are not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe."
22Then the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
23And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely.
24Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
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