Prayer in Unity
Channel: IPC Whitefield Rehoboth Ministries
Date: 2020-11-15

English Sermon

So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made to God intensely by the church. - Acts 12:5

While Peter is in prison, the church is “earnestly praying to God for him” (12:5). In this case, the Jerusalem church is facing a life-threatening crisis. There is no doubt as to what Herod, and the Sanhedrin with him, are intending to do. The goal is to eliminate the leaders of the church and persecute the believers who accept Gentiles. The church has no weapons against the forces arrayed against it. Their only recourse is to depend on God to make his will known, with the hope that Peter will be rescued and the church saved. Peter remembers that Jesus said he would live to old age