Constant prayer

Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church. And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison. Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, “Arise quickly!” And his chains fell off his hands. – Acts 12.5-7

Peter was in jail, again. But, and this is a major but, constant prayers was offered to God for him by the church.

That constant prayer had an impact. Peter was just about to be tried by Herod. He was securely bound in chains with a minimum of four guards two of whom were at the other end of those chains. There was no way he was going to get out.

Remember though, constant prayer was being made for him.

God broke the chains and blinded the soldiers and opened the gates and Peter walked free. The impossible happened.

Constant prayer is a constant theme in scripture. We are told to ‘pray without ceasing’ and that we ‘ought always to pray and not to faint’ and to not be full of cares but to ‘by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let our requests be known unto God’ and other instructions like it.

I don’t totally understand prayer. I have a least a dozen books about prayer and to be honest no one seems to really understand how it all works. God though tells though tells me to prayer constantly and somehow constant prayer ‘works’ according to the will of God.

So what do I do with this? Or what should I do with this?

It’s simple. I pray constantly and without ceasing and in every situation and then I trust my all-knowing and all wise God with the results.

Now if I would just do it.