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In the Midst of Deliverance 

by Brett Fuller on November 23, 2020

Acts 12:7-10 records Peter's imprisonment. Unlike Paul & Silas' incarceration in Acts 16, which was filled with midnight songs of praise which resulted in freedom for others, Peter slept. Why? Well, hope may have waned as he probably thought death was imminent in that his friend James was martyred a few days earlier. However, suddenly an angel appears and strikes him in the side to get him up. Peter, believing he's dreaming, groggily follows the angel past the guards, through the prison gates, into the city streets of freedom.

The tone and mannerism of the delivering angel leads one to conclude that Peter's posture of expectation was not as it should have been. Unlike Paul & Silas, his circumstances seemed to have dulled his spiritual attentiveness. There is no record of anyone being spiritually influenced through his confinement and we have no evidence of the gospel being advanced.

How do you handle your restricted places? If rather than letting the gospel go dormant you allow it to breakout, who knows whether when your deliverance is at hand, if God might deliver more folks than just you. Live right, live well...