No One is Beyond Reach: God Is Still In Control

July 26th, 2026

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Acts 12:1-16 NIV “It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. 2 He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. 3 When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread. 4 After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover. 5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. 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.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. 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. 10 They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him. 11 Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.” 12 When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying.13 Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door. 14 When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so over joyed 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.

Don’t Let The Enemies Increased Attack, Decrease Your Faith In God

 

1. Don’t Let The Enemy

Mathew 14:30-31 NIV “But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”

Peter failed at walking on water but walked out the prison.

 

Lie: Today’s battle erases yesterday’s miracles.

Truth: Your testimony is a weapon against doubt.

2. Don’t Let The Enemy

Genesis 3:1 NIV “Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

 

Lie: Unanswered questions are a reason to decrease your faith.

Truth: A delayed answer is not a denied promise.

3. Don’t Let The Enemy

Genesis 50:20 NIV “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

 

Lie: Your mess ups make your unqualified to be used by God.

Truth: You are called.

  

5 Ways To Increase Your Faith In A Faithless Season

 

1. Focus On The , Not The

1 Corinthians 3:6-7 NIV “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.”

2. Release

 

Proverbs 3:5 NIV “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

 

Acts 12:6 MSG “Then the time came for Herod to bring him out for the kill. That night, even though shackled to two soldiers, one on either side, Peter slept like a baby. And there were guards at the door keeping their eyes on the place. Herod was taking no chances!

3. Obey With No

 

Matthew 4:20 NIV “At once they left their nets and followed him.”

 

Acts 12:7 NIV “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!”

4. Have Be Accompanied By

 

Mark 2:11 NIV “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”

5. Live For

Philippians 1:21 NIV “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”