Sunday Morning Service — 30 August 2026 

Scripture: Acts 5:18–22, Acts 12 

Message at a Glance  The God who emptied Peter's prison cell is still emptying prisons. Whatever has held you — a court case, an illness, a debt, a collapse, a bondage that has run on for years or even for generations — it is a season and not a sentence. When the church prays and worships, God sends deliverance, and the people who come expecting to find you still lying in your trouble will not find you there.

Key Scriptures  Acts 5:15, 17, 18–22  Acts 12:5, 7, 11  Exodus 1:13–14  John 5:5–8  John 11:31  Psalm 105:17–20  Genesis 40:4  Jeremiah 38:6; Jeremiah 39:11–12  Acts 16:25–26  2 Corinthians 4:17  2 Samuel 6:21  Philippians 3:13  Genesis 12:4

The Word for This Season 

There is a word already prepared about prayer, and it is a blessed word. But there is another verse the Holy Spirit pressed into Pastor's heart this morning as he prayed, and it is a verse about a man in a cell and a church on its knees. 

Acts 12:5 

Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was of ered to God for him by the church. 

Hold that picture: a locked door, a guarded prisoner, and a praying church. That is where the message begins, because that is where many of you are living right now. And into that picture the Spirit of God speaks a word for this season. 

“This is the season in which I bring you out. I am going to bring you out of impossible situations. Whoever can receive it, receive it — you are coming out.” 

This is not a word that has to be shouted to be true. Let it be a court case. Let it be a divorce case. Let it be an illness, a debt, or a collapse of any nature whatsoever. God will bring you out of every 

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impossible situation. If you can receive that, open your mouth and say it: I am coming out of it by the grace of God. In the name of Jesus, I am coming out of every impossible situation. 

You think you will die in it. You think there is no solution for it. You think you will lie down inside it and never rise again, that you will never come out. But when the Spirit of God dealt with Pastor, the word came for the whole house: O Church of God, O children of God, God will bring you out of every impossible situation. 

Unbelievers see no light at the end of the tunnel. Believers do. 

Even if your situation has taken forever. Even if it is a very prolonged matter, a thing that has been pending for days and months and years — God will surprise you and shock you with a miracle, and He will bring you out. 

Egypt: When the Problem Outlasts the Generations 

Turn to the first chapter of Exodus. The children of Israel became slaves under Pharaoh — hard labour, bitter bondage, as the older translations put it. 

Exodus 1:13-14  So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.

They must have thought it was temporary. Their fathers had come into prosperity; seventy people had been given the land of Goshen to live in. But now the people had multiplied there, and the problem they thought would end in weeks did not end in months. It did not end in years. It did not end in generations. They sighed and they cried, and it felt as though there was no answer even to their prayers. 

Do not forget this when your own prayers feel unanswered: God is a God who listens carefully. They thought this was going to be an endless struggle. But in God's time, God's work was revealed there. Out of slavery that had run for generations, out of prolonged suffering and prolonged challenge and a depressing situation, by the blood of the Lamb, God released a deliverer with a prophetic voice and brought them out. 

If God delivered them and brought them out, then whatever your family or your life has been facing for days or for generations, the Holy Spirit is commanding a season of deliverance for you. It is time for it to come. Even if the entire Egyptian army sat down and planned against it, they could not stop it — because it is God's time. God is bringing the church of God and the children of God into such a season, into such a divine time of deliverance. He is going to permanently remove from your life the things that have been prolonged, and bring you out. 

Bethesda: Thirty-Eight Years, and Then Jesus Came 

In the fifth chapter of John there is a man lying by the Pool of Bethesda. Thirty-eight years — almost four decades. His wife had likely left him or died. His children had gone their own way. If you lie with a problem for thirty-eight years, that is enough to make you believe God has forgotten you. 

John 5:5-8  Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.”

But Jesus came there. Though there were many people lying at that pool, He went looking for this one man Himself. Look at somebody and tell them: God has not forgotten you. There is a grace of God, a presence of God, a presence of Jesus that comes looking for you. 

And the Lord asked him three words: Do you want to be healed? For thirty-eight years the man's answer had been, “I have no one to help me.” But that is not the issue. It is not an issue that you have no one to help you. 

It is not an issue that you have no one to help you. The One who made you is standing in front of you. 

The One who made you, the One who called you, the One who cares for you, the One who has a plan for you — He is standing right there. So if you have the will, say it: This day, I have the will to come out of that impossible situation. And immediately the Lord said, Rise, take up your bed and walk. If you have the will, stand up. If you have the will, show something on the outside. If you have an interest in coming out, then stand up and walk. The man who had not moved for thirty-eight years moved — and he came out. 

They Came to the Prison and He Was Not There! 

Now come to the key passage, Acts chapter five. The apostles have been arrested and put in the common prison, and the council sends officers to fetch them out for trial. 

Acts 5:18-22  And laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison. But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, “Go, stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this life.” And when they heard that, they entered the temple early in the morning and taught. But the high priest and those with him came and called the council together, with all the elders of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. But when the of icers came and did not find them in the prison, they returned and reported.

They came expecting to find them in the prison. But when they arrived, the men were not there. Do you understand what that means? You have been stuck in this thing, and people have come to look at you, expecting you to be lying in this problem itself. They put those apostles in prison the day before, and the whole expectation was that they would lie there and end there. But the God they worshipped brought them out. 

If He brought them out, then do not forget — today — that there is a God who brings you out of every impossible situation. Even if it is an illness, a bondage, a collapse, or a curse that looks like it will never change, open your mouth in the name of Jesus and say, I am coming out by the grace of God. 

A Season of Shadows 

Notice what was happening in that fifth chapter before the arrest. It was a prayer that began in a gathering. The people came together, God began doing miracles, and they started bringing the sick out and laying them along the road. 

Acts 5:15  So that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them.

They said it was enough if Peter's shadow fell on them. Those touched by the shadow were healed. Great deliverances were happening there — and receive this for yourselves. 

“You are entering a season where blessing comes even through your shadow. If you walk under the wings of the Lord, the Spirit of God is going to place you in a season where miracles happen even through your shadow.” 

Beware the Sadducee Spirit 

In the seventeenth verse we are told who rose up against them, and it matters. 

Acts 5:17  Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with indignation.

The high priest was a Sadducee. There were Pharisees and there were Sadducees, and the Sadducees believed four things. One: that the dead will not rise again — if anyone dies, they lie there and never rise. Two: that there is no life beyond death. Three: that a person has no soul, only a body and a spirit. Four: that there are no angels — that if you need help, only humans can help you. That is a Sadducee. That is why, just like their name, they are sad, you see. 

Now think about it. If the one in leadership is a Sadducee, no deliverance will happen in that church. It dies and it ends there. There is nothing beyond this. There is no room for hope. There is no ministry of angels. There are no miracles and no signs. If the leaders are like the Sadducees, there will be no revival, no new souls will come in, and even what is there will leave. 

But that is not the pastor standing before you, because he believes the Word of God. If the Lord said that miracles and signs will follow those who believe in Him, then beyond death and beyond the dead state there is life. To help you there is not only human help but angelic help — God's angels. Do not forget that He is a God who descends for God's children, who descends for God's servants, who descends to work for the Church of God. There is room for hope. You have not only a body and a life but also a soul; so worship God in spirit. New souls will keep coming in here, a revival in the Holy Spirit will happen, God's Spirit will raise up people from within this house for God's work, and the glory of the gospel will be seen — because Jesus is the living God, and those in the church will reveal miracles and signs. 

The Sent One in Trouble 

Here the apostle Peter was arrested and put in prison, and it was because of jealousy. The meaning of the word apostle is the sent one — one who is sent, one who is united by God to a purpose. Will one who is united by God jump into trouble? Here Peter is united by God, and he faced trouble anyway. Something happened contrary to expectation. He was arrested. 

So hear this clearly: even if you have a calling, even if you are called, even if you carry an anointing, sometimes things happen contrary to expectation. Do not be afraid. You will not lie in that trouble forever. God sent His angel and brought the apostle out. 

There are challenges a church faces too, and people talk. “This church is finished.” “Oh, that happened to them.” “I think they are arrogant.” “I think it is because they lack holiness.” “I think it is because they pray too little.” And in the very midst of those who think that way, God is again leading His church into spaciousness. 

“I am leading the church of God into spaciousness again. In the midst of those who said it was finished, I am making room.” 

Do Not See Me in My Trouble 

Read the twenty-second verse again. God brought them out of what looked like an impossible situation, and when the ones guarding the prison came and looked, they did not see them there. So look at the person sitting next to you in their trouble and say it: Do not see me in my trouble. 

Do not think I will always be a patient because you see me in my sickness. Do not see me forever in my crying. Do not see me forever in my debt. Do not see me forever in my depression. You will never see me forever in the darkness I am experiencing. There is a God who brought me out of this, and His name is Jesus. Jesus will bring me out. I shall come out of every impossible situation. 

There are those who want to see you dead. There are those who would like to see you in a coffin. But those who come and look with such desires will not see you like that. 

“I will add to your lifespan and I will honour you. Those who came to look for your ending will not find it.” 

Bethany: Man's Perception, God's Plan In John chapter eleven, in Bethany, in the family that Jesus loved, Lazarus died and was buried. When Mary got up and left the house, the people with her had a perception about where she was going. 

John 11:31  Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

“Poor thing, she is going to the tomb to cry for her brother.” That was what was in their minds. “Let us go with her and cry too. Let us show some sympathy. Let us go and sit with a sad face.” But she was not going to the tomb at all. She went out to the city gate, because she had heard that Jesus had come. 

Man will think certain things about you. But beyond man's thinking, God has a plan. Some people go to see the sick with real faith — “let him be healed, let us pray for that.” And some go for other reasons. Some patients are dangerous company, Pastor noted with a smile: if the person had gone home to the Lord in peace while we were standing there, at least there would have been no need for a second trip — we could all have announced it like breaking news. 

It was the same with Mary. When they saw her get up and leave, they all went along to weep. But Jesus did a miracle there instead. So whatever man's perception may be, if you look to the name of the Lord in prayer today, God will send the power of resurrection into your matter. God's Spirit will change your dead states, and resurrection will come up inside them. 

Joseph: Only for a Season 

Read Psalm 105, verses seventeen to nineteen. 

Psalm 105:17-20  He sent a man before them—Joseph—who was sold as a slave. They hurt his feet with fetters, He was laid in irons. Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of the Lord tested him. The king sent and released him, The ruler of the people let him go free.

Joseph is lying in a prison in another country. He is a man with a vision. He is spiritual — purely spiritual. But he did not look spiritual once they had stripped him: they took his coat of many colours off him, threw it away, and gave him slave clothes instead. Sometimes the man wearing the colourful dress is the spiritual one. They arrested him and put him in prison. 

And here is the word that lodged inside Pastor while reading, a word visible in the English Bible more than in the Malayalam — Genesis chapter forty, verse four. 

Genesis 40:4  And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them; so they were in custody for a while.

The older English rendering says that they continued a season in ward — Joseph spent a season in that prison. A season. Tell the person next to you, and then tell yourself: My issue is only for a season. It is not a lifetime. It is not a thing that is forever. It is a season, and that season will change. Only our God is unchanging. He is a Wonderful Counsellor, and your negative, depressing season will change. 

The devil will come and whisper: “You will always be in debt.” “You will always be in this sickness.” “You will always be in this bondage.” When he says that, look at the verse and answer him: No. I have received the vision of Jesus. I am a child of God who has accepted the Word. My season will change. 

You are not going through a lifetime of trouble. You are going through a season of trouble. 

Some will tell you it is your fate, that you will always be like that, that it ends here. Who can you contact for help in Egypt? You are a Jewish boy — who will help you? But in Paul's language, our pains and our sufferings are temporary; the glory God has kept for us is eternal. 

2 Corinthians 4:17  For our light af liction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

If anyone had come and asked for Joseph in that prison — “there was a fellow here, a good-looking boy, where is he?” — the answer would have come back: “Oh, he is not here.” “What happened to him? Did he die?” “No. His season changed.” All that he prayed and worshipped was not in vain. Did you not hear those sounds? The sound of you praying, the sound of your worship, the sound of you standing firm in the Word — none of it is in vain. They will not see you there, because you have come out of that impossible situation. 

Why did it change? His season changed. Look at the person next to you and say, Your season will change. Do not let the devil tell you it is your destiny. The moment he says it, answer him: Get away, devil. It is only a season — a season that is testing me, a season in which the Word of God is examining me. If he was a slave in one season, in the next season he is in the palace. He is a prince. 

Jeremiah: Help From a Place You Never Imagined 

One more passage. In Jeremiah 38, God's own prophet is caught by his own people and put down into a dry well. 

Jeremiah 38:6  So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the court of the prison, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire. So Jeremiah sank in the mire.

There is mud in that well. He is standing there holding the rope, balancing himself so as not to sink. At any moment he could go under. He is adjusting, holding on, lying in there — and there is no way at all for the prophet to escape. 

Then Ebed-Melech saw his condition and felt sad for him. He gave him a piece of old cloth and told him to put it under his arms, and they pulled him up out of the dry well, out of the mud, and set him down there. That is all humans can do. That is exactly the limit of it. Man can pull you out of the mud and set you on the ground; man cannot change your season. 

But in the thirty-ninth chapter the king changed. Nebuchadnezzar came, and when the king changed, that king heard about Jeremiah in the palace. Say this: all our conversations are in high offices. Not in small places — in high offices. And then comes the verse that stops you, the word a foreign king speaks about a prophet his own people had rejected. 

Jeremiah 39:11-12  Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying, “Take him and look after him, and do him no harm; but do to him just as he says to you.”

Do him no harm. Take care of him well. That is a foreigner speaking. People you never thought of will speak for you. People you never imagined will step in and intervene in your matters. His own people caught him and put him in the pit; a foreign king brought him out and took good care of him. 

“I will raise people from places you never thought of to help you. Those who have no reason to speak for you will speak for you.” 

Someone came later to the place where he had been lying and asked, “Is the prophet Jeremiah there? He was our pastor, he was our prophet — is he still lying in there?” And he was not to be seen. What happened? Did he go down and die? Did he drown? He did not drown. He is not lying there. He did not end as you thought. Our God helped us. God delivered us. God brought us out. God had mercy and showed us kindness. 

Why did he not drown? There was a regime change. And it is not just a season that God changes. Even in the invisible realm the territorial spirits are changed. When the church prays in these days, even the bondage of the land is broken — and in that same land God has a plan to lift up the church of God. 

Acts 12: Suddenly, While the Church Was Praying 

Come back now to Acts twelve, the chapter we read. Peter is lying in prison. When you read the chapter you see that after killing James, the plan for Peter was pre-arranged — the pit was dug to finish him off too. It was not something that happened suddenly. It was a strategic move: they killed James, and when they saw the Jews were pleased, they tried to fix Peter as well. They put him in to finish him. 

But in the seventh verse the word is suddenly — suddenly, while the church was praying, an angel descended into the prison. 

Acts 12:7  Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, “Arise quickly!” And his chains fell of his hands.

Our prayer is not in vain. Suddenly. When a problem comes into your life and it feels impossible, praying is not in vain. If you pray, God's hand will move in such a way that divine intervention comes into it. And then read the eleventh verse. 

Acts 12:11  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.”

“All the expectations of the Jewish people.” Humans had an expectation that Peter would end with this. But God moved contrary to expectation. And understand — for you, humans do not generally hold good expectations. More people hold bad expectations over you than good ones. You say you passed tenth grade, and someone says, “Anyone can do that. Let us see you pass twelfth. I do not believe you will.” “Oh, that business — somehow, with some connection, it got saved. But I do not think he has the skill to be a businessman. If he gets into another one it will most likely be a problem.” That is what man thinks. 

“I will deliver you out of every wrong expectation of people. I will deliver you out of every wicked and demonic expectation spoken over your life.” 

Prayer With the Wrapping of Worship The church of God must pray. But see what happened in Acts sixteen. When Paul and Silas prayed, it says they prayed and they sang — they worshipped. And when they worshipped, the chains broke. 

Acts 16:25-26  But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed.

All the foundations shook, the prison doors opened, and when people came looking for them, they were not seen there. Where did they go? They went to do ministry. Did the men who were lying in prison that night go out to minister? Yes — because they had a ministry debt. What was the ministry? The jailer who had beaten them and put them in prison still had to be baptised. That baptism was pending on them, so he could not lock them up. They could not be locked up. They came out of an impossible situation because there was a call of ministry pending on them. Give the person next to you a high five and say: A call of God, a call of ministry, is pending on you. 

So keep your focus there, and pray and worship. Peter prayed. Paul and Silas prayed and worshipped. Prayer will be done in His presence, but along with it worship must come, thanksgiving must come. Think of it this way, Pastor said: you go and buy good chicken, but what if the wrapping is bad? Take an old newspaper out of the dustbin, a filthy newspaper, and wrap good chicken or a good burger in it — would you eat it? Everyone who prays prays to God. But for your prayer to receive His presence, it needs good wrapping. 

Prayer is the meal. Worship is the wrapping. 

So after praying, worship well. Say thanks. Say glory. “Thank You, Lord. You are great, Lord. I love You, Jesus.” Say sorry. Wrap the prayer properly. Prayer and worship go together — and that day, out of that prison, out of that impossible situation, deliverance came. 

Three Doors That Must Open 

In Acts twelve, three doors opened and God's angel brought Peter out. So do you want to come out of an impossible situation? Three doors must open. Because of the time, here they are quickly. 

The First Door: The Fear of What People Think If you are too concerned about what others think of you, that is a prison. If you keep thinking only about what people will think about me, you can never come out. David did not have that thought. It did not matter to him what anyone thought — he would worship God. A king, worshipping like a madman in front of the ark. And when his wife confronted him about it, his answer was immediate. 

2 Samuel 6:21  So David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me instead of your father and all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel. Therefore I will play music before the Lord.”

It was not your father who made me king. It is my God whom I am worshipping. I am not doing this to show people. I am not afraid of people. I am not afraid of criticism. I am not afraid of what flesh and blood can do against me. I fear God. I am in awe of God. I will worship Jesus. 

If you are afraid of people, if what people think lives inside you, you cannot come out of a situation. “Oh, if I buy a good vehicle, what will people think?” “Oh, if I educate the child, what will they say?” “Oh, if I get baptised, what will people think? My God, all my friends will leave me.” No, no. That is a prison. That is the first door. 

The Second Door: Living in the Past Living in yesterdays. Old failures, old wounds, old relationships, old habits, old things. “Did my grandfather have an elephant?” — and now there is not even a mole in the house, and still we are talking about the old things. “Oh, what joy there was in worship in the past. What fellowship there was. What has happened now?” All of that is history. 

The old is history. It is not your future. 

If you stay in the old, you will not be able to go to your future. Say it today: I am not sitting in the old. Old failures may be visible. Old wounds may be visible. A great many old things may be visible. But because you have been washed by the blood of Jesus, you are not living in the old. 

Philippians 3:13  Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead.

Forget the old and run forward. God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, brought them right out — and their minds were still all old: the cucumbers there, the onions there. That is why for forty years God was trying to take them into the promised land. Even halfway along, nothing feels forward: “the old was better, the new is not good.” “Will I get a marriage, or is it enough there?” That is a prison. Say goodbye to the past — and say hello to your future. 

The Third Door: The Fear of Change The third prison is the fear of change: the fear of whether change will actually change anything, the worry that if changes occur they will only become a problem. God called Abraham at the age of seventy-five. He already had a system. He was set up. The family tomb was already there. And God called: Son, get out. 

Genesis 12:4  So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

By faith he left the land of the Chaldeans, and he saw the glory of God. When people say it is impossible, you must say by faith and come out of it. I do not fear change. Some people are stuck in the past instead: “Oh, I should have married then.” “I should have done that then.” If you stay like that, forget it. 

There is a servant of God in Singapore, Naomi Dowdy — the one who brought the cell system into churches everywhere. Her famous words are worth taking as your own: I will change. I can change. I must change. It is a decision. Understand that God has a plan. Understand that what God says matters more than what man says. Replace fear with faith. 

Rise Up and Come Out 

So rise up and come out from inside this thing. The God who emptied the common prison in Acts five, who struck Peter awake in Acts twelve, who shook the foundations in Acts sixteen, who changed Joseph's season and changed the regime over Jeremiah's head — that God has not changed. Your season has. 

“You are coming out. Out of the court case, out of the illness, out of the debt, out of the bondage, out of every impossible situation — you are coming out in the name of Jesus.” 

Key Takeaways  • God brings His people out of impossible situations. The length of the trouble does not decide the outcome — the God who hears does.  • What the enemy calls your destiny is only a season. Seasons change; the God who set them does not.  • Do not let human expectation define you. Man's expectation is not God's plan, and God delivers you out of every wrong expectation spoken over you.  • Prayer opens prisons — but bring worship with it. Prayer is the meal; worship is the wrapping. • God raises help from places you never imagined: strangers, foreigners, even a change of regime.  • Three doors must open before you walk out: the fear of what people think, living in the past, and the fear of change.