Many people were praying for Peter to be released from prison and he was! As he knocked at the door where the prayer meeting continued “a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer the door. When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!”
“You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.” Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.” Acts 12:12-16
Heavenly Father, what a comical, but all-too-real scene. You answer prayer and we doubt the tangible evidence. Well, I thank you for “sending Peter” to the front door of my heart last evening with undeniable evidence. For months I’ve been praying for a “prison door” to open—praying dutifully but not expectantly; praying because I was afraid to not pray; praying at times for fire to come down, not grace. You sent grace. Thank you. It felt/feels so good to be astonished afresh.
We’d love to be astonished by “Peter’s knock” in several other stories—two particulars ones this October morning. You’re not “mother-nature,” but the ruler of heaven and earth—sovereign over hurricanes, heartaches, and everything else. Please reduce the power of Milton, barreling this morning towards Tampa and a huge chunk of Florida. Please protect “the least of these”—children and the elderly. Please intervene is supernatural, miraculous ways.
We also continue to pray for family members and friends who are strangers to your grace—seemingly allergic to the Gospel. As surely as you opened the doors and let Peter out of his prison, please rescue our loved ones from the dungeon of a Christ-less life and eternity. All for your glory, and So Very Amen.