In some of the old TV Westerns of the 1950s, the desperados (always in black hats) would be making their escape with the stolen loot from the stagecoach robbery. Suddenly someone on the posse chasing them (usually in white hats) would shout, "We have 'em now! They've ridden into a box canyon!" And everybody knows there's no way out of a box canyon.
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There are box canyons in life, too. Seemingly impossible situations where there seems to be now way out and nowhere to turn. Surrounded by insurmountable obstacles, you find yourself temporarily paralyzed, not knowing what to do.
Those are the very times when God invites us to pray.
"God's mighty weapons"
In Acts 12, we find the story of how God took a tragic, even hopeless, situation and turned it around. It was accomplished by the power of prayer, the kind of prayer that storms the throne of God and gets an answer.
Scripture says "Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church. "(Acts 12:5, NKJV)
