About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. We praise You for the glory that will come to Your name in this jail. Praise is powerful. It can change our perception of our environment. It converts the whips and stocks of cruelty into a sacred altar of sacrifice.
Praise transforms the scars of injustice into marks of servanthood.
It penetrates dungeons of oppression and lights the candle of freedom. The song of praise always sets the oppressed soul free. I knew a woman whose husband cheated on her. The betrayal of thirty-eight years of trust angered and devastated her. She could have run her husband out of the house.