2 Chronicles 7:11-17, brought alive by a banner reading 'If My People, Who Are Called By My Name' in a Coptic hospital church in Nairobi.
Philippians 4:4-13 — rejoice, be anxious for nothing, and let the peace that transcends understanding guard your heart and mind.
1 Samuel 1:1-20 and Hannah, preached after a twelve-year wait — told alongside the preacher's own season of a studio apartment, no job and no insurance.
How to face hard times, and the answer is prayer — whose chief secret is simply praying. Nouwen's line: turning the monologue in your head into a dialogue with God.
Acts 12:1-15. Peter is freed from prison while the church prays for him, and the praying church cannot quite believe it when he knocks.
Acts 4:23-31. Severely threatened and released, the believers do not pray for safety but for boldness, and the place where they meet is shaken.