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Seldom do we get our own way with God, no matter how worthy our aims might be.

One day in Troas, Paul wanted to travel northeast and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and teach those who came to believe, but God closed that door.

Within hours, that team on a mission received a vision to break out of Asia and travel over to Europe.

The Psalmist tells us that the steps of a man are guided by God, and it is also true that the stops of a man are guided by God.

Paul was a man on the move, and it is easier to direct a man who is moving than a man who is not moving.

Philippi was a strategic Roman colony and it was time for the good news of Jesus Christ to break out into this vitally important centre, and God knew who could do the job for Him.

Paul found some Jewish women praying by the riverside, and God opened hearts that real faith might be birthed. He ensured that these new believers were baptised immediately. Paul was a good spiritual midwife.

A clairvoyant slave girl is then released from her occult involvement and Paul and his colleague Silas are arrested and jailed.

They did not feel sorry for themselves. There was no pity party.

At midnight they are praising and worshipping, and again, within a few hours, the jailor and his family came to believe, and they too were baptised.

Paul had been taken from where there was something to where there was nothing, so that there might be something, and the nucleus of a fellowship is formed.

All this was not part of Paul’s original plan.

In the will of God when one door closes another can quickly open.

Sandy Shaw
Nairn Christian Fellowship

"'Christ in You...'" from Dale Krebbs

Origin Of Nations