“Out of position.” The pastor who said those words is the same one who taught me to say, “God is good, all the time. All the time, God is good.” He preached about David’s sin with Bathsheba. There in 2 Samuel 11:1, the writer says that David was home at the time of year when kings went off to war. He sinned, in part, because he was “out of position.” Had he been where he was supposed to be, he would have missed the events which led to his great sin and great pain.
Paul, Silas, Timothy, Luke, and the others in their party were not “out of position.” I just saw this. They didn’t stop going to the place of prayer. The church at Philippi started in a prayer meeting. Lydia hosted these missionaries in her home. But each day they still went to the place of prayer. Only jail kept them from the place of prayer.
Along the way, one day, they ran into a female slave who had a spirit which enabled her to predict the future. In so doing, she made her owners a lot of money. On this day, an evil spirit ran into the Holy Spirit. She recognized the servants of the Most High God telling people how to be saved. For many days, she continued to shout these true words about the apostles as they went to the place of prayer. One day, Paul put a stop to it by casting the demon out of her.
We might think that all hades would break loose when Paul opposed evil. It did for a minute, but then all heaven broke loose in that city. This makes me wonder, are we finding our way to the place of prayer, every day. If not, we are out of position. It is true that when we pray, we awaken opposition. But if we don’t pray, we never get to see God shake the world and change the lives of others. Get to the place where you pray, today. You’ll be glad you did and so will others. How do I know? Well because our God is good, all the time.
