Something Happens When God's People Pray

Hebrews 4:16
16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Jeremiah 33:3
3 ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

1 John 5:14-15
14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

Peter’s
Miraculous Escape From Prison
(Acts 12:1-17, 21-24)
Verse 1-5a

1. It Was a Time of Trouble

There Were Attacks
- King Herod & the Jews

There Were Fear & Uncertainty
- The church did not know what the future held.

There Was An Adversary
- Satan, the one who organized and empowered this persecution.

Peter’s
Miraculous Escape From Prison
(Acts 12:1-17, 21-24)
Verse 5

2. It Was a Time of Prayer

Earnest Prayer
- earnest = sincere or intense conviction
- “prayer was made without ceasing...” NKJV
- ceasing = to stretch forth
- going beyond the boundaries
Faithful Prayer
- prayers were made “to God”
- 6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (Heb. 11:6)
- faith/ obligation/ command
Focused Prayer
- prayers were “made…for him”
Family Prayer

3. It Was a Time of Power

Peter’s
Miraculous Escape From Prison
(Acts 12:1-17, 21-24)
Verse 6-11

Ephesians 3:20 (NIV)
20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,

Peter’s
Miraculous Escape From Prison
(Acts 12:1-17, 21-24)
Verse 12-17

Jesus Heals
A Boy Possessed by An Impure Spirit
(Mark 9:17-27)
Verse 23-24
23 “‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.” 24 Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”

Peter’s
Miraculous Escape From Prison
(Acts 12:1-17, 21-24)
Verse 21-24

1 Samuel 17:47
“...the battle is the Lords…”