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From Acts 12:1-12
A church is a church.
CORPORATE PRAYER: Christians gathering in unity to pray with one voice, focusing on worshipping God, interceding for the community, and expressing shared trust.
📖 Acts 2:42 NLT “All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer. 43 A deep sense of awe came over them all, and the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders.”
📖 Acts 12:5 NKJV “Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.”
📖 Acts 12:12 NIV ”When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying.”
Through corporate prayer, God the :
● (2 Corinthians 1:11, 4:15)
● (Matthew 18:19-20 & James 4:8)
● (Acts 12:5 & 12)
● (Acts 4:23-24, 31 & Matthew 7:7-8)
1. moves when The Church .
📖 Acts 12:5 ESV “So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.”
is the only thing to do with .
📖 Acts 12:6-10 ESV Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison. 7 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands. 8 And the angel said to him, “Dress yourself and put on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.” And he went out and followed him. He did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision. 10 When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them of its own accord, and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel left him.
📖 Acts 12:12-16 ESV When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose other name was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying. 13 And when he knocked at the door of the gateway, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer. 14 Recognizing Peter’s voice, in her joy she did not open the gate but ran in and reported that Peter was standing at the gate. 15 They said to her, “You are out of your mind.” But she kept insisting that it was so, and they kept saying, “It is his angel!” 16 But Peter continued knocking, and when they opened, they saw him and were amazed. 17 But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.
God even when I .
📖 Romans 5:6-8 NIV “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
2. Jesus in my life where I’m by .
📖 Acts 12:7 ESV And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands.
📖 John 1:5 ESV The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
📖 John 8:12 NIV When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
📖 1 John 1:5 ESV This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Sermon in a Sentence:
Through , I am part of the , and when we in prayer, heaven moves—because a church is a church.
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