Do You Want Your Prison Doors Opened?

Many times the result of our losses can make us feel like we are in a prison; a prison of despair, depression, hopelessness, or misery. We can see that the apostles were put in prison because they were exhibiting God’s power, through the Holy Spirit, doing many signs and wonders. In the fifth chapter of Acts, the multitudes brought their sick and laid them in the street, so when Peter passed by, his shadow, the Glory of the Lord, would fall of them causing them to be healed. The high priest and the Sadducees were indignant, grabbed the apostles and put them in prison.

The apostles had good reason to be in despair and feel hopeless.  “But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out.” (Acts 5:19)

They did not despair but continued to hope in the Lord. Hope brings faith. And faith is believing in what we have not yet seen.

“’…Look, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!’…And the high priest asked them, saying, ‘Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name [Jesus]? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with this doctrine, and indeed to bring this Man’s blood on us!’ But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: ‘We ought to obey God rather than men.’”

Acts 5:25,27b-29  NKJV

Trusting in God always opens the doors of His will for our lives.