God Will Appear!
"Peter was therefore kept in prison,
but constant prayer was offered to
God for him by the church."
Acts 12: 5
How would you have felt if you had been
Peter? King Herod began a persecution
of the church in Jerusalem, highlighting
it with the murder of the apostle James,
the brother of John.
When he saw this pleased
Jewish leaders,
he seized Peter also and put him in jail. If
you were Peter, wouldn’t you have thought
that Herod planned to murder you as well?
How alone would you have felt?
The church prayed diligently that night for Peter,
bound in chains with the prospect of meeting a
sword in the morning. But suddenly the
church’s
prayers were answered as an angel appeared to
Peter and set him free.
You may not be chained and condemned to die for
Jesus. (Or you might.) Whatever your predicament,
When you wait, God will come to you with
peace,
protection, or a promise.
It is not a question of whether God
will appear when you are in trouble,
but how.
"When Jesus is present,
all is well, and nothing
seems difficult."
Thomas à Kempis
