You are Out of Your Mind!

Job 6; Job 7; Job 8; Acts 12

Scripture

Acts 12:5-17 "So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
6 The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. 7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. "Quick, get up!" he said, and the chains fell off Peter's wrists.
8 Then the angel said to him, "Put on your clothes and sandals." And Peter did so. "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me," the angel told him. 9 Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. 10 They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.
11 Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I know without a doubt that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from Herod's clutches and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating."
12 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. 13 Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer the door. 14 When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, "Peter is at the door!"
15 "You're out of your mind," they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, "It must be his angel."
16 But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished. 17 Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet and described how the Lord had brought him out of prison. "Tell James and the brothers about this," he said, and then he left for another place."

Observation

God does have a sense of humor! Just look at us! Seriously, This story of the deliverance of Peter out of prison is one of those humorous stories that should be a reminder to us that when we pray we should actually believe that God is going to answer our prayers!
Herod has just killed James the brother of the disciple John. Herod saw how this pleased the Jews so he arrested Peter and was going to execute him. Note that in verse five we find the church earnestly praying for Peter and in verse ten Peter has been set free from prison by an angel. In verse thirteen Peter arrives at Mary’s house where the disciples are earnestly praying for him and greets Rhoda, the house servant, and she runs in to tell all the earnest prayers! They do not believe her, and they tell her that she “must be out of her mind”! Don’t laugh; we do the same thing on a regular basis!

Application

Faith is thanking God in advance for something that you are asking Him to do! I am going to thank God in advance for a healthy vibrant church where God works miracles in the lives of many people!

Prayer

Heavenly Father, thank you for the lives that are being changed in our fellowship. Help me to keep my eyes focused on the wonderful things that you are doing and not miss them. I want to see with my spiritual eyes the work that you are doing so I can give you praise! Open my eyes wide so I don’t miss a thing!



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