Believers’ Earnest Prayers
BY ELIJAH KASONGO
Acts 12:1-24
Key Verse: 12:5
“So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.”
Last Sunday we heard God’s word through Timothy’s massage, in it we learnt of the Antioch church as the model church for world mission— the first Gentile Church pioneered by those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed. They went on spreading the word. We learned that men from Cyprus and Cyrene went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus. Through their pioneering work God established the Antioch church as a headquarters for world mission. We also learn that it was here at this church believers were first called Christians.… Read the rest