Pondering Point

This teachable moment in prayer is attention-grabbing once you stop and give it a close look. We know that certain people in the bible were quite prayerful. We also know that God performed many extraordinary actions in response to such prayers. But in this instance, once the prayer of the believers has been answered by God with a miraculous escape, even they have a hard time believing it! But this was not a one-off or isolated incident.

This Acts 12 episode has a very similar feel to one in Acts 4, which you will cover in tomorrow’s Prayer for the Week. Each of the recorded events involves prison and prayer. A third one occurs with the Apostle Paul in Acts 16. Read through these chapters (Acts 4, Acts 12, Acts 16) and ask yourself, “Are these not amazing things God does in response to groups praying?” He is still God; are we still praying with the same expectations?