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Time To Deal With Trouble

Acts 16:16-18

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 round and said to the spirit, 'In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!' At that moment the spirit left her. (NIVUK)

Paul, Silas and their team were in Philippi (Acts 16:11-12). The riverside meeting place, where God-fearers gathered to hear the gospel (Acts 16:13), also attracted a demonised woman. She may have been mentally disturbed or abandoned by her family, but she became a slave who made money for her owners: she was a social curiosity who claimed to predict the future. Following Paul and his team, she slandered the gospel messengers by claiming that she could validate their authority. The apostle was clear that her behaviour was triggered by a demon: as was proved by subsequent events.