So if you're here just go ahead and close your eyes,

with all your heads.

Let's give our attention to God

and pray for His presence to really just kind of glow

and shine within us as we get through this lesson today.

Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for allowing us to wake up and see a brownie day.

We thank you Lord Jesus for allowing every single one of these ladies to be here today to listen to your

word to be able to learn about Rhoda in the Bible and using people who may feel that they

are insignificant for your kingdom purposes.

We thank you in advance for allowing this message to just

seep into our hearts and our spirits, trusting you and allowing us to know that with you we can do anything.

We're grateful for all that you've done for our families and for our lives

and we ask that we just feel the power of your Holy Spirit as we get through this lesson and let you speak to each

of us individually about what you want us to learn in Jesus and we pray, amen.

All right ladies, so we're going to go ahead and start by opening up our Bible

to the Book of Acts, chapter 12.

The Book of Acts is in the New Testament in the Bible, so it's towards the end.

And we're going to go ahead and read from there.

About the time King Herod cruelly attacked some who belong to the church, he killed James, John's brother, with the sword.

When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter II. Now during those days were the days of the unleavened

bread. After the arrest he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four

soldiers to guard him intending to bring him out to the people after

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