16:25-26 What do we learn from Paul and Silas praying and singing praises to God here?
16:25-26 What do we learn from Paul and Silas praying and singing praises to God here?
This teaches that the believer's joy is within - it is not conditioned by outward circumstances.
Although Paul and Silas had been severely beaten and cast into a dungeon deep in the prison, with their feet fastened in stocks so they could not move, instead of bemoaning their situation, they prayed and sang praises unto God.
They lifted God up in prayer and song in the midst of their circumstances. God heard them and set them free, and He will hear us and set us free too if we would but lift Him up and sing His praises in the midst of our circumstances.
This is for our example (CP Psa 146-150).
See also author's study Paul the Apostle - a Chosen Vessel unto God in his book Advanced Studies in the Christian Faith (Volume 2).