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Hey, what is up, everybody? Welcome to the Daily Drive. I'm Mike Bro, and we are walking through some of the

highlights in the book of Acts, and today we come to an amazing story you know i've always liked movies like shawshank redemption escape from alcatraz the fugitive

where somebody plans and executes like a prison break digging a tunnel with a spoon or crawling

through sewage pipes or fleeing a bus crash even blake shelton's song about using a love- lovesick hound dog named Old Red to escape from the warden.

Now, I'm certainly not advocating for or condoning prison breaks, but they are fascinating stories of people who are longing for freedom.

In Acts chapter 16, we see a prison break that top all prison breaks. It's not premeditated with intricate

plans and timing. It's all orchestrated in a moment by the Holy Spirit of God. Now, we've already

seen one of these involving Peter back in Chapter 12, and this one involves Paul and his new

partner, Silas. The author of this book, Luke, is along for this

particular journey, as denoted by his use of we, and he introduces us to a guy named Timothy,

a young guy who eventually would become like a protege of Paul, and a businesswoman named Lydia,

who would become one of the founders of the church in the city of Philippi. Let me just read what Luke

writes in verses 16 through 18. Once, when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female

slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for

her owners by fortune telling. She followed Paul and the rest of us shouting, these men are servants of the Most High God who are telling you the way to be saved.

She kept this up for many days. Finally, Paul became so annoyed that he turned around and said to the

Spirit, in the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to come out of her. And at that moment, the spirit left her. Now, even though she

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