POWERFUL SURPRISES

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: POWERFUL SURPRISE

ACTA 12:12-17 There Were Powerful Surprises - When Peter was released from prison, he went to the house where the church had met to pray. He knocked on the gate, Rhoda came out to see who was there, heard his voice and went and told the church that Peter was outside. They didn’t believe her, but assumed that he must be dead, and that it was his guardian angel at the gate. The Jews believed that every person had a guardian angel that could assume that person’s form. Poor Peter!

As Warren Weirsbe said, “God could get Peter out of a prison, but Peter couldn’t get himself into a prayer meeting.” Yet, when they investigated, they discovered that is was Peter himself, and they were “astonished.” Why were they amazed? After all, they had been praying for this very thing, hadn’t they? They were surprised because they were just like us!

Often our best praying is done in an atmosphere of unbelief. On our best day, we are marked by a lack of faith. I praise His name that my faith does not have to be perfect, it just has to be exercised. We are a lot like that father who brought his son to Jesus to have the demons cast out. He believed the Lord could do is, but he was still filled with doubt and fear. Consider their conversation: Mark 9:17-27. Jesus said, “If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you,” Matt. 17:20.

As long as we live in this world and speak to God in prayer, we will often be “astonished” at His answers. Let’s not worry about cultivating big faith; let’s concern ourselves with developing simple, childlike faith in the kind heart and supreme power of our Heavenly Father!

LET US PRAY
DEAR LORD JESUS, LET YOUR MIRACLE FALL ON ME TO MY GREATEST SURPRISE IN JESUS NAME.

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