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Acts 12:1-25, 1Peter 4:7

Whatever gives pleasure to the enemy over your life or makes enemy to rejoice concerning your life is a close call of untimely death. Do you have a prayer life or brethren that you fellowship in prayer together in the morning, afternoon, night time or < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>midnight, rather than you having a gossip ministry? If you are lacking in prayer, you have definitely exposed yourself to the enemy. King Herod was an ally with the Jews that were persecuting the early church. They were also enemies of the gospel, and they do not have respect for the life of the apostles. In Acts 12:1-3, ÒNow about that time the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church. Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter also. Now it was during the days of the unleavened bread.Ó It pleased the Jews that John was killed with the sword. The same hand that went against John went after Peter with the same agenda. The enemy wanted to rejoice over Peter. Thank God for Peter, prayer warriors stood in the gap for Peter. Just as enemies were pleased over JamesÕ death, they also wanted to be pleased over PeterÕs death. Get out of gossip ministry and get yourself into a prayer group. The enemy will have no ground to be pleased concerning your life.