Problems are Invitations to Pray
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In Acts 12:1–19, the church faced a crisis when Peter was imprisoned, but their problems became an invitation to fervent prayer. God responded by giving Peter peace in the middle of danger and providentially sending an angel to deliver him. Pastor John uses this story to encourage us to share answered prayers as a testimony to God’s faithfulness.
Our problems are invitations to prayer
Prayers bring God’s peace and providence
Share answered prayer
Life Group Discussion:
What are some situations in your life right now that could become opportunities to lean into prayer rather than worry?
In what ways can consistent prayer reshape our perspective on difficult circumstances?
Why is it important to share when God answers prayer, even in small ways?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, good morning, Harris Creek. Anybody who are joining us this Sunday? God's got something for us today, |
| 0:05.3 | and I'm excited to walk you through it. So when I was like three months, new believer, like, |
| 0:10.4 | had just become a Christian, I get invited to go on this mission trip to Trinidad. Trinidad is a nation |
| 0:16.1 | down off the coast of South America that has a high population of Muslims and Hindus and some Christians. |
| 0:23.6 | So we're going there to share the gospel with Hindus and Muslims and unbelievers. |
| 0:27.7 | Well, I'm coming from Dallas. |
| 0:29.7 | This group that I'm coming with, this discipleship ministry, they're from Missouri. |
| 0:33.1 | There's like 30 or 40 people from Missouri. |
| 0:35.3 | They're like, we'll meet you in Trinidad. |
| 0:37.3 | Well, my flight, like, arrives six hours from Missouri. They're like, we'll meet you in Trinidad. Well, my flight like |
| 0:38.1 | arrives six hours before theirs. And I arrived to Trinidad, and I hadn't thought about this. |
| 0:45.6 | They give me the immigration paper, you know, that says like, where are you staying? How long |
| 0:48.8 | we'd be there, business or pleasure, tourism, whatever. And I'm going to fill it out. And I'm like, all right, name, passport, in a country of origin. And then it's like, place you're going to. I'm like, don't know that. Phone number of place you're going to, don't know that. And so I walk up, I arrive in Trinidad, I walk up to the immigration counter there with the customs agent. |
| 1:12.4 | And she's like, passport and immigration. |
| 1:16.7 | I was like, all right, passport, immigration paper. |
| 1:21.8 | She opens up the passport, looks at it checks me, looks at the immigration paper, and she's like, |
| 1:24.3 | where are you going? |
| 1:26.9 | I was like, I don't know. She's like, why are you going? I was like, I don't know. |
| 1:31.3 | She's like, why are you here? |
| 1:33.9 | I was like, oh, I'm on a mission trip. |
| 1:39.9 | She was, I believe Hindu and was like, excuse me? |
| 1:42.0 | Like not having it. |
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