THE PRAYER LIFE, PAUL

BIBLE ILLUSTRATION: 

SAINT PAUL ARRESTED 

The New Testament tells use that 
Saul persecuted the followers of 
Jesus. He was struck blind on the
road to Damascus. He gave his life 
to the Lord after this incident.The
Lord changed his name from Saul 
to Paul.


LIFE LESSON:

THE PRAYER LIFE OF PAUL

ACTS 16:1-3, 13-14, 16-32

1 Then he came to Derbe and Lystra. 

And behold, a certain disciple was 

there, named Timothy, the son of a 

certain Jewish woman who believed,

but his father was Greek.

² He was well spoken of by the brethren who were at Lystra and Iconium.

³ Paul wanted to have him go on with him. And he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in that region, for they all knew that his father was Greek.

¹³ And 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.

14 Now 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.

¹⁶ Now 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.
¹⁷ This 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.”
¹⁸ And 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.
¹⁹ But 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.
²⁰ And they brought them to the magistrates, and said, “These men, 
being Jews, exceedingly trouble our 
city;
²¹ and they teach customs which are not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe.” ²² Then the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
²³ And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely.
²⁴ Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
²⁵ But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and 
the prisoners were listening to them.
²⁶ 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 chains were loosed.
²⁷ And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself.
²⁸ But Paul called with a loud voice, 
saying, “Do yourself no harm, for we
are all here.”
²⁹ Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.
³⁰ And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
³¹ So they said, “Believe on the Lord 
Jesus Christ, and you will be saved,
you and your household.”
³² Then they spoke the word of the 
Lord to him and to all who were in 
his house.