Acts 16:13-15
13 And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met there. 14 Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul. 15 And when she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.
After several days in Philippi of Macedonia, Paul and the others went where people prayed. There they spoke the gospel to the women who met there, and found one who worshipped God (presumably a Jewish convert). God opened her heart to Paul's message and was reborn and baptized. Then she invited them all to stay at her house, since she had the means and wanted to help those who helped her to be set free in Christ. So we must talk to those we meet with the good news, wiring for God to open their hearts. We are ambassadors and messengers of the God who saves.
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