Why Didn't Anyone Hear the Chains Fall? Acts 12 Sermon | John Giftah | Biblical Teaching

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0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John gift podcasts. All through this week, we are looking at various lessons that we can take away from the incident recorded in Acts Chapter twelve, from Versus six onwards. I had previously done as that we can check out from Acts chapter twelve, verses one to five, so many things that you can take away from that. But today one of the things I wanted to understand is that there's an incident where Peter is in a very despicable state.

1:15 Speaker 2: He's in a position where he's about to be killed as the same way as the apostle James. And what I wanted to understand is that we think about this aspect of how the church was praying for him earnestly. And look at this. The scripture says that an angel suddenly came in and what happens. He struck him on the side to awaken him and said quick, get up and look at verse seven, it says, and the chains fell off his wrists. Then the angel told him get dressed, put on your sandals, and he did, and he started following the angel.

1:49 Speaker 2: Now listen to this. There were so many soldiers around. Right. There were two soldiers who were adjacent to him when he was chained. And you listen to this calvy. The miracle is not just the chain falling. But I was thinking about how the chains fell and the soldiers were not woken up. Have you ever thought about this like the miracle, of how God made this miracle in a sound proof manner so that the wrong people don't hear him getting the miracle. They were still sleeping when the miracle happened.

2:30 Speaker 2: What I wanted to understand is that sometimes when God does a miracle in her life. He's going to do it in a way where no one else can even hear or see or know what he's doing. It may look ordinary, it may look like nothing is changing. Your life, may feel like, oh my goodness, John, like nothing is working out. But I wanted to understand other people may not even know when you got delivered. They will not even know how you got delivered, because God is a special in doing miracles in a soundproof setup.

3:03 Speaker 2: Now, for example, I'm recording these podcast episodes at a studio. We're doing this in a soundproof setup. No one here can hear anything from outside, and no one outside can hear what I'm speaking. It's a soundproof system. See. I wanted to understand the same principle here that when God did the miracle, the supernatural aspect of it is not just the chain's falling, But the other aspect is that when the chains fell, it did not wake up any of the soldiers. The soldiers were right there, if you see right there, there were always sixteen soldiers guarding this one Peter.

3:45 Speaker 2: I've made even a sermon on that, sixteen soldiers for one Peter, and not one of them woke up when the chains fell. Not one of them woke up when all this was happening. You See, guys, you may feel like nothing is happening because no one is able to recognize what God is doing in your life. Sometimes you feel like, oh, I want to see a miracle. I want to see God bless me, promote me, elevate me. But no matter what I do, I'm not no one is able to recognize or nothing is working out in a sense of you know, something quantitative like many times you need a proof, right, Like, for example, if I'm saying the ministry, for example, since my ministry is predominantly online, right for people to know or evaluate how this ministry is effective.

4:35 Speaker 2: People want numbers, Right, I can come and tell you that you know what this is ranking, or you know I'm putting out content from the studio and all of these things. But what actually makes the difference is when people are able to see the numbers, When people are able to see the response, the effectiveness, and so on and so forth. Right, So look at this, Peter getting this miracle was in a silent way. The enemies did not even hear what was happening. See, sometimes God does a miracle in such a way where you feel like maybe God is not even doing a miracle.

5:17 Speaker 2: Like in fact, even Peter thought it was just a vision. He didn't even realize what was happening. That's the way God does supernatural miracles. Sometimes you may feel like nothing is happening. You may feel like nobody is able to hear it, nobody is clapping or celebrating with you. But it's all for good. Imagine if any of them woke up, Peter would have got finished. So the miracle was not just the chains falling, but the miracle was also ensuring that the miracle happened in a silent, sound proof manner, and God is an expert in doing that.

5:58 Speaker 2: Sometimes you may feel like nothing is happening because you can't hear it, you can't feel it. But today I want to remind you the same way, when Peter's chains fell, the soldiers did not hear the soldiers when out worken up, when your chains fall, the wrong people will not know about it, and it's good. Let them not know, let them not feel jealous, let them not try to sabotage what God wants to do in your life. Praise God that they can't hear, and just walk with that saying God, I thank you, because them not knowing is actually a blessing for me to walk into the freedom and the next level that God has in store for me.

6:42 Speaker 2: See, I've noticed this in my life where sometimes even when God blesses me or elevates or promotes and things like that, no matter how much i want to share it with certain people, I'm just being in a place where I'm not able to do that, Like this circumstance and them, you know, walking away. For all of these reasons, I'm not able to be as close or to share. Till one point, God said, I don't want them to see what I'm doing in your life because they don't have good intentions. They don't want you to grow, John, So you don't have to go and tell them, like, see how God has helped you grow.

7:22 Speaker 2: Let when the miracle happens, when they see you, you know, elevated and promoted, let them see. But I don't want them to sabotage what I want to do over your life. So today I want you to have that perspective in your life that we serve a God who does miracles in a sound proof manner, we serve a God who does miracles in a way so that the wrong people won't get the notice. The wrong people will not be notified. Only you know that you got the miracle, you are free, and that the right time God will bring the promotion and the elevation it needs to be given to you.

8:03 Speaker 2: I really to challenge you to share this with someone and leave a comment and I will see you back next time. God bless you.

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