The Power of Believing Prayer in Crisis

Epaphras Prays Podcast · Aug 17, 2026 · 7m

In Scripture, there is one weapon given the Christian Church to bring the Lord’s aid, power, help, and deliverance in times of persecution and difficulty. We have this same divine weapon, which is often ignored and underused, and must be enlisted again and again.

Let’s study the biblical account of Peter's miraculous rescue from prison through the power of earnest church prayer, drawing theological insights from Alexander MacLaren's commentary.

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.Acts 12:5

In the earliest days of the church, when the Apostles…