Today's story is about a woman named lydia who is lydia
what happened to her let's find out as we read the story so are you children ready for it
on a second missionary journey one of paul's stops were at the city of neapolis which he came to
after sailing to the island of samathris from there by land he traveled to the city of philippi
which was a city in macedonia there paul stayed for a few days with silas while staying there paul
and his friends heard about a group of people who usually met at the river to worship and pray on
the day of worship the sabbath day paul and silas went out to the river to look for the believers
they saw a group of women who gathered to worship there so paul and silas sat down to talk to them
one of the women in the group was a businesswoman and her name was lydia she was extremely rich
because she sold expensive purple cloth in her hometown of tara tera lydia was already a believer
but she listened to paul explain jesus's teachings his life death and resurrection lydia believed in
everything paul said and she was baptized right there in the river several members of her family
and her servants were baptized too she invited paul and his friends to come and stay at her home
for as long as they wanted she went on asking them until they finally agreed that was a nice story
i am glad you liked it the holy tales today's story is about how god helps song to become a good
man that sounds interesting song was known for doing things which were not good for the people
he punished imprisoned and threatened people who believed that jesus was the messiah
he even hurt them but saul thought he was doing the right thing and felt that god was pleased
with him because he did not believe in jesus he had pretty much taken care of all the believers
who lived in his area and then he wanted to go to damascus to stop the believers there
he received letters from the high priest of damascus in support of his doings so
saul planned to bring back all the believers of jesus in damascus to jerusalem in chains saul was
on his way to damascus with a group of people when he suddenly saw a bright light shining down on him
he fell to the ground in shock then a loud voice said saul why are you persecuting me
who is speaking to me afraid saul asked i am jesus the voice said it is me you are persecuting
now i want you to get up and go to the city and i will tell you what to do next
the men who were traveling with saul were speechless
they heard the voice but could not see the face of the man who spoke the words
saul tried to get up and that is when he realized that he was blind he could not see anything
or anyone so the men with him led him into the city of damascus saul stayed there for three
days without seeing anything those three days he did not eat or drink water there was a believer of
jesus in damascus called ananias one day he had a vision where god asked him to go and talk to saul
right at that moment when ananyas had a vision saul was praying god told saul that a man
named ananias would visit him and he would lay hands on saul which would get back his
sight ananyas was not too happy with god's instructions he said lord i have heard the
terrible things that saul did to your believers in jerusalem and he came here to do the same
do you really want me to go see him it's okay god said go ahead and do as i tell you
i have chosen saul to take my message to the gentiles as well as to the people of israel
ananyas obeyed god and went to see saul he put his hands on saul's eyes and said
god brother sent me to get your sight back and be filled with the holy spirit
immediately something that looked like scales
fell off saul's eyes and he could see everything saul was baptized right away he drank some water
and got back his strength that was an amazing story oh yes it was the holy tales
today's story is about saul escaping from the jewish leaders after his encounter with jesus
sounds adventurous go on with the story holy let's not waste any more time saul's sudden encounter
with jesus on his way to damascus had changed saul completely he stayed with some believers for
a few days and immediately began preaching that jesus was truly god's son everyone who heard him
were amazed they knew a few days earlier it was saul who wanted to persecute the believers
but now he was one of them the more saul preached the more powerful his preaching became
none of the jews in damascus were able to find any fault in him and this made them very unhappy
some of the jewish leaders decided to kill him they were constantly looking out for a chance
to ambush him saul heard about their plans and some of his new friends helped him escape
at night they made saul climb into a big basket tied ropes to it and lowered him down
over the city wall after he escaped saul went to jerusalem and tried to meet the believers there
but they were all afraid of him because they didn't know how he had changed they thought he
was pretending to be a believer just to trick them barnabus came with him to talk to the believers
he told them all about how saul met the lord on his way to damascus and how he preached
powerfully afterwards so the believers accepted saul and from then he preached in jerusalem
his preaching was very powerful and this angered the jewish leaders
wherever he went the young church grew stronger in number and in strength because the believers
walked with the lord and were always filled with the power of the holy spirit
so did you children like the story yes yes we did it was wonderful
well then now it is time for the question who went with saul to speak to the believers of jerusalem
barnabas went with saul to speak to the believers am i right yes you are hope you
got the answer correct too we'll be back soon with a brand new story so keep watching bye bye
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on the fourth day god created the sun to shine in the day the moon and stars to come out at night
one day moses went to mount horeb with his sheep there god appeared to him
as a flame of fire in a bush since there was no room anywhere else they decided to spend the night
in a stable here mary had her baby jesus she wrapped him in a blanket and put him to sleep
the whole world in his house