Part 3 | Winning Battles with Worship
From Acts 16
In the face of our obstacles:
1. We the spiritual .
📖 Acts 16:16–17 ESV As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. 17 She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.”
📖 1 John 5:19 ESV We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
📖 Colossians 1:13 ESV He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.
📖 Luke 10:18–19 ESV And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.”
The :
A. – he’s the father of .
📖 John 8:44 ESV There is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
B. – he believers constantly.
📖 Revelation 12:10 ESV The accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
C. – his ultimate .
📖 John 10:10 ESV The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.
📖 Acts 16:18–19 ESV And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour. 19 But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.
📖 Acts 16:23–24 ESV And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely. 24 Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
In the face of our obstacles:
2. We our .
📖 Acts 16:25-26 ESV About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, 26 and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were unfastened.
There’s in .
A. Praise amplifies in the face of .
📖 Psalm 149:6 ESV Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands.
📖 Hebrews 4:12 ESV For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword.
B. Praise magnifies the over our .
📖 Psalm 34:1–4 ESV I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad.
3 Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together! 4 I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.
C. Praise the of the Christian.
📖 Psalm 50:14–15 ESV “Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, 15 and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
In the face of our obstacles:
3. We take from the in the realm.
📖 Acts 16:27-28 ESV When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.”
📖 Acts 16:33 ESV And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.
📖 Acts 16:35–36 ESV But when it was day, the magistrates sent the police, saying, “Let those men go.” 36 And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go. Therefore come out now and go in peace.”
turns your into a !
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