Dare to Be a Priscilla (Prisca)

Daily Scripture Threshing for Today, Thursday, October 15, 2026

Today's Text: Acts 18:1-3, 18:24-28; Romans 16:3-5

Key Verse: Romans 16:3-4 (KJV) — “Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: Who have for my own life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.”

Today, our searchlight is on a prominent first-century Christian leader, missionary, and tentmaker who worked closely with the Apostle Paul. She was a Jewish-Roman woman married to Aquila, another tentmaker and early Christian convert..Her name appears first before her husband's in five of their six biblical mentions because of her prominent leadership in the ministry. She and her husband were among those who were forced to leave Rome around AD 49 when Emperor Claudius ordered all Jews to leave the city, moving first to Corinth where they met Apostle Paul,, and later to Ephesus. Nobody would ever know that a personal favor and partnership shown to a man of God, when they hosted Paul for 18 months, and traveled with him, risking heir lives for him would, today, be noised across the ages as righteousness.

Priscilla was a veritable instrument in God's hands, keeping a tent shop with an open Bible and an open home. Priscilla and her husband labored with the apostle, using their resources. God found her and her household dependable when a young eloquent preacher named Apollos came to Ephesus, mighty in the Scriptures but knowing only the baptism of John, it was Priscilla and Aquila's maturity that God used for the young preacher. They did not publicly embarrass him. Instead, they took him unto them and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly (Acts 18:26). Dare to be a Priscilla: dare to know the Word deeply even when your pulpit is a workshop, and to use your house as a church and your wisdom to make other preachers better.

Most Christian women today want platform before depth, title before training, and public visibility instead of private fidelity, but Priscilla stood out for her depth without a title, theology without a pulpit, and influence without noise. She did not compete with her husband but complemented him, did not expose Apollos publicly but expounded truth privately, did not wait for a church building but made her house a church and her business a mission base. What women must learn from her is that God honors quiet soundness over loud shallowness, that a woman can be domestic and doctrinal at the same time, that marriage can be a ministry team, and that true greatness is not in how many crowds you gather but in how many lives, preachers, churches, and destinies you quietly make better.

She did not preach to crowds, but she corrected a great preacher in private. She did not seek a title, but Paul called her his helper who risked her neck for the gospel. She and Aquila hosted a church in their house at Ephesus and at Rome, and their home became a base for discipleship, mission, and hospitality (1 Corinthians 16:19). Her ministry was side by side with her husband, not in competition but in complement, skilled in trade, sound in doctrine, hospitable in practice. Dare to be a Priscilla: dare to be theological and domestic at once, to let your marriage serve mission, and to mentor greatness without envying it.

Her name is often mentioned before her husband's, a rare honor in that culture, showing her spiritual stature. She never needed a platform to be powerful; her tent became a seminary, her living room became a sanctuary. Before God raises an Apollos, He often raises a Priscilla to shape him. Dare to be a Priscilla: dare to labor with your hands, to teach with accuracy, to open your home, and to serve Christ so faithfully that the whole church gives thanks for your life.

Action Steps: Identify one Apollos around you — someone gifted but needing more accurate truth. Do not criticize him publicly; take him aside privately with scripture and love. Open your home this week for fellowship, prayer, or mentoring, and let your marriage or your workplace become a tool for mission.

Quote for the Day: “When a woman who knows the Word opens her heart and home, God makes her a mentor and anoints her with wisdom and eloquence.” — (Simon Olatunji #quotablequotes)

Let Us Pray: Heavenly Father, like Priscilla, make me sound in doctrine, skilled in work, and rich in hospitality. Give me a house that hosts Your church and a mouth that expounds Your way more perfectly. Help me to lay down my neck for the gospel and to raise others who will preach it better than I ever could — in Jesus’ most glorious name. Amen.

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Thank you for threshing the Word with me today. For further study on this topic, please read: Acts 18:1-28; Romans 16:3-5; 1 Corinthians 16:19; 2 Timothy 4:19.

With all my love and prayers,

Simon Wale Olatunji, Ph.D.

Your Darling Bishop (DaBishop)

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