His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and, after prayer, placed his hands on him and healed him. When this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured.
-Acts 28: 8-9Read more

But take this staff in your hand so you can perform miraculous signs with it.
-Exodus 4:17

For the record, I happen to have it on good authority, that my wife would say that nothing good could come from giving a man a big stick and turning him loose with a free license to use it. Read more

As far as living arrangements are concerned, I've been in less comfortable places than military barracks, but not many. Open bay barracks are especially impersonal; cramped sleeping conditions, rampant theft and the obvious lack of privacy all work toward an experience most memorable. Still, people can make a home anywhere if necessary.

On one particular first century evening, Paul was in just such a place; Roman barracks to be precise. He was taken there for his own protection. Read more

But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.
-Jonah 1:17Read more