I want to encourage you this morning about the methods of God and the passage will sound familiar if you were at the second half of the Meeting yesterday. But the scripture stood out to me in many different ways.  So this morning I really hope to lift your head this morning.

1. God will find you where you’re at.

Acts 12:6 The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance.

A lot of people doubt the idea that God can reach them. Well Peter proves those people wrong in this passage. God searches for us and what a wonderful thought that the

God of all creation wants to find you. And sense He is God He will.

Jer. 23:24 Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the LORD.

2. Regardless of Circumstance if you’ll be obedient, God will provide the means.

Acts 12:7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.

8 Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him.

I love the idea in this passage that the angel tells Peter to get up and then the Chains fell off. I think that a lot of people doubt the idea that if God calls then He will equip. God has never ask anyone to do anything that He hasn’t given the tools.

3. Follow God even if you don’t understand.

Acts 12:9 Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision.

If I could explain all the blessings I have seen in the church I would be a rich author, but sometimes the fact that God is just God needs to be enough.

4. Make sure God gets the credit.

Acts 12:11 Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”

When the God thing happens in your life please recognize that it is God and not anything you have done.

5. When you submit to be great for God. Reactions will be different.

Acts 12:13 Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer the door.

14 When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!”

15 “You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

16 But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.