Week 35: Proclaim faith publicly-the jailer’s house

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🗓️ 4 May 2026

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Summary

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” (Acts 2:38)

There once was a jailer who was ordered to guard Paul and Silas securely. Around midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God when an earthquake shook the prison, flinging open the doors and loosening everyone’s chains. The jailer woke up and saw the doors open. Thinking the prisoners had escaped, he was about to kill himself, but Paul shouted and saved him. He fell to the ground and asked Paul and Silas what he had to do to be saved. In that moment, the word of the Lord spoke to the jailer and his entire household.

The jailer was transformed: He took Paul and Silas and cleaned all their wounds, he and his entire house were baptized immediately, and then he brought Paul and Silas back to his house and served them a meal and was filled with joy. He went from imprisoning Jesus’s messengers to joyfully sharing a meal after a baptism!

Faith is meant to transform us, and baptism is meant to tell the whole world of that transformation! Baptism does not save us; it is an outward display of an inward decision. When we are baptized, we are publicly telling people that we are no longer who we were before we followed Jesus. We should desire that type of faith for our kids—a faith that means being not ashamed but proud of how Jesus changed their lives.

This week, let’s pray that our kids tell people when Jesus changes their lives. When baptism is right for them, let’s pray they make that choice confidently and joyfully and let’s celebrate them big!

Jesus, I pray that you change __________’s life. May they have the type of faith that immediately takes action because they know life with you is too good. May they publicly declare their faith, so everyone knows they follow you. Amen.

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0:00.0	Christian Parenting.
0:14.5	Y'all, I can't even make this up.
0:16.8	Welcome back to part of the best of your host, Courtney Defeo.
0:19.4	The first time I recorded this week the mute
0:22.5	button was on so a solid 10 minutes of silence then the second time i just recorded this i was almost to the
0:29.2	end i was in the middle of the prayer and all of a sudden a christmas song came on what is happening right now
0:36.4	like in my headphones there's a christ Christmas song playing. I'm like,
0:39.3	Lord, is this warfare? Like, what is going on? So take three, Lord, in Jesus name, Lord,
0:45.5	protect the audio, protect just this time that you would speak to people through this and just do
0:50.8	your thing through your spirit. A couple announcements up front. One, announcement, guys, Ella DeFaio is home from college. And I might have thrown a confetti popper at her car when she got here. I'm so, so happy to have my kiddo home. That was the fastest freshman year of my life. And I don't know how she feels about it. She's probably feeling a little bittersweet right now to just me being all up in her grill. So that is one big fun thing. I hope your kiddos have made it safely home from college. And then the second thing is I have a pretty big announcement coming this Thursday on Pardon the Mess. And so I would encourage you to come over and hear what's happening with me and Pardon the Mess. I'm not pregnant, so it's not that.
1:28.3	But it's exciting. So come on over on Thursday at the beginning of Sissy and David's episode.
1:32.9	I will share more about that. But today we're talking about week 35, and we are praying that our kids and our
1:39.4	families would proclaim our faith publicly. What an important topic. And I think the story of the jailer's
1:47.0	house I actually didn't know much about. So I'm so glad I got to read back up on that and study
1:51.6	this a little bit. But it's in Acts 16. And so we find Paul and Silas in jail. In Acts 16, 25,
1:58.3	it says about midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, which side note, I'm like, if I was in jail, would I be praying and singing hymns to God? I don't know. And then the prisoners were listening to them. Like already we see here, guys, their faith was rippling out. That's kind of the theme of this one. And suddenly, there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken.
2:19.9	And immediately, all the doors were open and everyone's bonds were unfastened.
2:24.0	When the jailer woke up and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself.
2:30.2	Supposing that the prisoners had escaped for we are, sorry, prisoners had escaped.
2:35.1	So he's feeling guys like, this is all my fault.
2:36.9	I better kill myself.
2:38.0	But Paul cried out with a loud voice, do not harm yourself.
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