Prayer that moves mountains

It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.

Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. "Quick, get up!" he said, and the chains fell off Peter's wrists.

Then the angel said to him, "Put on your clothes and sandals." And Peter did so. "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me," the angel told him. Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him. (Acts 12)

A few years ago, as I was studying the book of Acts in a bible study class, our teacher told us about Brother Yun - the Heavenly Man. He told us the book of the same name was Acts for the modern day.

In Brother Yun's autobiography, he recounts the persecutions he went through preaching the gospel in China. During his third imprisonment, he endured many beatings and scourgings. One day in May 1997, he heard the voice of the Holy Spirit, telling him to simply walk out the heavily guarded prison gate. Risking being shot to death on the spot, he obeyed the voice, and walked straight through several prison doors that were somehow left open in front of many prison guards, across the prison yard and finally out of the main gate. Brother Yun stated that it was as if he had become invisible to the guards who stared straight through him.

A little known fact is that Brother Yun's escape tallies completely time-wise with an intercessory meeting taking place miles away in far-flung Sweden. In a church in Sweden, a group of 30 were in a small room interceding for Brother Yun and other Chinese people who had been imprisoned for Christ. During a meeting, a Swedish lady, who usually prayed silently to herself, suddenly exclaimed aloud that she had seen a vision of a man walking out of prison to freedom. The group praised the Lord! This was recorded in the annals of the church... many years later, the lady's vision was verified by Brother Yun as having taken place at the very hour he was freed.

I was so inspired when I heard this. Yes, Brother Yun is a giant of a man. But the Holy Spirit intervened in a supernatural way in his life, as He did in the life of Peter, in response to the prayer of the saints.

It was so during the time of the Apostles. It is so today.

Prayer moves the hand of God, to free those in physical and spiritual bondage. Prayer is a powerful force on earth because it is plugged into the Most High God!