Freedom is a beautiful gift, but it was stolen from the Apostle Paul when the Romans detained him for more than two years.

So how did Paul respond? Well, he transformed his house arrest into a ministry headquarters.

He turned the Roman guards into Christian converts.

He inspired believers across the empire.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall invites us to look at Paul's letter to the Philippians

to discover four game-changing attitudes that can

transform your toughest seasons into your most effective ones. Chuck titled his message,

arrested, confined, but still effective.

If we go back to Philippians, I find three results of living above his circumstances,

and all three are applicable to our lives. Number one, when we live above our circumstances,

the progress of the gospel is accelerated. It's never delayed. That's verse 12.

I want you to know, brethren, my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel.

Here's the second. When you live above your circumstances, verse 13, the edge of the message is sharpened, never dulled.

Verse 13, so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole Praetorian Guard and to everyone else.

Well, we don't have Praetorian Guards today.

So that's an unfamiliar description of a group of soldiers.

Who were the Praetorian Guards?

One man writes, they were the Imperial Guard of Rome.

They had been instituted by Augustus and were a body of 10,000 picked troops.

Augustus kept them dispersed throughout Rome in neighboring towns. Tiberius had concentrated them in

Rome in a specially built fortified camp, And then Vitellius had increased their number

to 16,000. They served their term and later for 12 years and then later for 16 years. And at the

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