Unexpected Interruption

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Our Daily Bread Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Manuel was late for church and stuck at a red light. As he waited impatiently, his daughter noticed a stranded driver trying to fix a tire. “Daddy, you’re good at changing tires,” she said. “You should help her.” Manuel was now going to be very late, but he knew this was a divine appointment. He stopped to help, even inviting the other driver to church.

Paul and Silas faced an interruption in Acts 16. They’d encountered a slave girl with an evil spirit who kept shouting (v. 17). For several days Paul ignored her. Finally, he became too annoyed and said to the demon, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her” (v. 18).

Paul had made a conscious choice to serve others even when it was inconvenient. When he freed the girl, it only became more complicated. Her owners lost the means to make money from her (v. 19). Paul and Silas were seized and dragged “into the marketplace to face the authorities” (v. 19), beaten, and thrown into prison without a trial (vv. 22-24).

Serving Jesus comes at a cost. Jesus told His disciples they were to take up their cross and follow Him (Matthew 10:38). This is the way of Jesus: we’ll be interrupted and sometimes suffer, like our Savior. He invites us to accept those unexpected interruptions. How will you respond when they come?

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0:00.0	Paul became so annoyed that he said, in the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to come out of her.
0:08.2	Acts 16, verse 18.
0:12.8	Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread.
0:17.3	Unexpected interruption was written by Matt Lucas and read by West Ward.
0:24.6	Acts chapter 16 verses 16 through 24.
0:29.4	Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit
0:35.4	by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of
0:40.1	money for her owners by fortune-telling. She followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting,
0:46.3	These men are servants of the Most High God who are telling you the way to be saved. She kept us up
0:52.8	for many days. Finally, Paul became so annoyed that he turned
0:57.1	around and said to the Spirit, in the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to come out of her.
1:04.1	At that moment, the Spirit left her. When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas
1:14.4	and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities. They brought them before the magistrates
1:20.5	and said, These men are Jews and are throwing our city into an uproar by advocating customs
1:27.3	unlawful for us Romans to accept
1:29.8	or practice.
1:31.6	The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas and the magistrates ordered them
1:36.7	to be stripped and beaten with rods.
1:40.1	After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded
1:46.0	to guard them carefully. When he received these orders, he put them in the inner cell,
1:52.0	and fastened their feet in the stocks.
1:58.1	Unexpected Interruption, written by Matt Lucas.
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