2. The Secret of Prevailing Prayer

(Acts 12:1-19)
I desire Christian friends, to bring before you, for encouragement in prayer, a precious instance in which an answer to united supplication is given.
“Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.” James was the first apostle who became a martyr for Christ. Stephen had previously been stoned, but he was not an apostle.