FAITH CAPSULE: In all kinds of captivity, God has the capcity to deliver.

Acts 12

With God, stagnation turns to motion; mockery is converted into miracle; frustration transform to celebration and failure give up for victory to have its place. In all kinds of captivity, God has the capacity to deliver. The persistence of your captivity does not matter when God extends His outstretch hand of deliverance. The children of Israel were in the bondage of over four hundred years when God acknowledges them by sending His hand of deliverance. Be encouraged and know it that God’s intervention does not have to announce itself, but will renounce every plan and purpose of the enemy.
Peter, in his captivity, death was hanging on him; doors were shut on him; chains held him down and he probably had given up by sleeping instead of waiting on God. Peter was not aware of God’s deliverance plan and neither does the enemy have an idea. It was a challenge that calls for trusting God. While deliverance was taking place in Peter’s life, he was not with himself. “And when Peter had come to himself, he said, ‘Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel, and has delivered me from the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the Jewish people.’” (Acts 12:11) The Lord’s delivering power is most definite and most reliable because by strength no man has the capacity to prevail except God. Are you looking for a way out of the way you have put yourself? Repent and ask Him to move on your behalf because He is a faithful God and will never let His own down. God alone has the capacity to deliver from captivity that is holding any man down. When God brings you out of your captivity, it will be like a dream.
It is written, “When the Lord brought back the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, ‘The Lord has done great things for them.’ The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad.’” (Psalm 126) God will not only deliver you from captivity, but will lay down every mark of destruction on every agent of your captivity. When Peter was led unto freedom by the hand of God, “… there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter. But when Herod had searched for him and not found him, he examined the guards and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.”(Acts 12:18-19) God is capable by virtue of His capacity to deliver from captivity. Hold on to Him for your story will soon change for good and it will be like a dream.

Prayer for today: Ask for the outstretch hand of God for your deliverance.