Acts 12 : Power of Prayer

Acts 12 takes place as Peter is being put into jail by Herod for belonging to the Church. The Bible says during this time the Church earnestly prayed for him. God then sent one of His angels and -- despite four squads of soldiers, restraints, and an iron gate -- Peter was delivered from the prison. Peter then returned to a house full of believers still in prayer for him. After this took place Herod was eventually killed and eaten by worms because he did not give God His rightful glory.
The Church’s constant prayer for Peter during his incarceration displayed the power we have in prayer. Many times we as Christians undermine prayer or go about it completely the wrong way. Prayer is the awesome privilege to have a direct link to God with our problems and requests and more importantly, His guidance for us. We should never take it for granted, and we should take part of it every chance we get. We should never pray because we feel like it’s something we just have to do or that it’s just another Christian “obligation,” but as Christians we should do it out of simple necessity. We should always desire that intimate alone time with God and be so thankful that we have it. No other religion or belief system in the world can say that they can talk directly to their god(s) and he or she (it?) will respond, but we have the chance to have whole conversations with the Creator of everything! God is always desperately seeking to have those conversations with us so that He can council us, love on us, and reveal His will for our lives, and who are we to keep Him waiting? Better question-- why would we keep him waiting? Many miracles in the Bible took place because someone simply had faith and prayers and God took it from there.
The same power of prayer that the early Church had in the Bible we still have today, it never stopped working. So let’s never undermine what we have in our prayer. The Bible has verse after verse telling us to pray to God with our needs and to pray without ceasing. So let’s pray for the big and small things in our life, for healing, for each other, and for everything else in between every chance we get. “ Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” --Philippians 4:6
Love you guys,
Tyler