CRAZY PRAYER | Darren Rouanzoin

Acts 12 gives us two apostles arrested by the same king. James meets a sword in a single verse. Peter, guarded by sixteen soldiers and bound in chains, is set free by an angel while the church prays through the night. One gets a sword, one gets an angel, and we live in that tension, because God doesn't always answer the way we hoped.In this message, Pastor Darren walks through the story of Peter's rescue and gets honest about the kind of praying most of us have never been discipled into. We pray small, polite, vague prayers, sometimes out of unbelief and sometimes because we're tired of getting our hopes up again. But Jesus never rebuked a bold prayer. He rebuked small belief. Drawing from how Jesus taught us to pray in Luke, the neighbor banging on the door at midnight, the widow who won't quit, the settled son and daughter who come to the Father with confidence, we're invited to pray bold and pray specific. Vague prayers get vague answers, so we get specific and keep knocking on the door of heaven.Part of our series Church on Fire, a journey through the book of Acts.Join us on Sundays in Huntington Beach at 9, 11, or 1, or in Costa Mesa at 10 or 12. Visit garden.church for more info.