The Unseen Is Mightier

Wednesday. Acts 12: 1-12.

Faith does not reckon on things seen but on things unseen. Prison and chains and armed guards would be circumstances that would seem unalterable. Who does not know a hard-pressed situation when everything seems bound tight against us? But there need be no prison nor chain nor guard on one’s spirit. One may always pray. Peter’s body became as free as was his spirit, and he walked out from prison and chain and guard. So may we — if we will.

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