James 5: Powerful Prayers

Last updated on: November 8, 2011 at 11:49 am by Dillon Burroughs

James 5: Powerful Prayers 2011-11-08T11:49:30-05:00 Dillon Burroughs

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“16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. 17 Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. 18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.” -James 5:16-18

Prayer. By nature, we assume some have a better ability to communicate with God than others. There are prophets who stop the rain, and then there are the rest of us. But James indicates something different.

Rather than prayer belonging to a special class of elite saints, he taught that what made prayer powerful is that it is done by a righteous or just person. If a person who follows Jesus lives a life of integrity, he or she can expect to live with a powerful prayer life.

How often we miss this! We ask God to do something for us, yet live however we desire. Instead, we are challenged to live for God, knowing that our prayers will be powerful when we do. This is not a practice for the spiritual superhero; it is a call for us all.

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