Let's look in Acts chapter 16 at a story you are probably familiar with. Paul and Silas were in jail. They'd been whipped. Their backs were bleeding. Their feet were in stocks. They had been put into the inner prison.
Acts 16:24-26
24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner
prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto
God: and the prisoners heard them.
26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the
foundations of the prison were .....
.... shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Notice in verse 25 that both Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto
God. And notice that the prisoners heard them. In other words, they weren't
quiet about it. And it was as they sang praises unto God that the manifestation
of His glory came! That old jail shook! Every door flew open, and the stocks
fell off their feet.
The jailer thought everyone has escaped. He knew he'd be killed, so he
started to fall on his sword and take his own life. But Paul cried out to him,
"........Do thyself no harm: for we are all here" (vs 28). And the
jailer called for a light, and sprang in, and said, "... sirs, what must I
do to be saved?" (vs 30). That all happened when Paul and Silas began to
sing and to praise God!
The jailer and his family was saved because when God manifest His glory
on you, your family and people around you will all be a partaker so far they
key-into the atmosphere of that miracles.
