Effective Prayer James 5:13-18
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The Request for Prayer 13-14
The Request for Prayer 13-14
Vs. 13 Classic Diatribe
Suffer Misfortune
Be thankful for the providence which has made you poor, or sick, or sad; for by all this Jesus works the life of your spirit and turns you to Himself.
Charles Spurgeon
Reference back to 5:10
Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.”
Cheerful (Full of Courage)
What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
When you pray to God in psalms and hymns, think over in your hearts the words that come from your lips.
Augustine of Hippo
The Sick One Should Call on the Elders
The Sick One Should Call on the Elders
The Elders Should Pray Over the Sick for Healing
The Elders Should Pray Over the Sick for Healing
they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
The Elders Should Anoint the Sick One with Oil
The Elders Should Anoint the Sick One with Oil
And they were casting out many demons and were anointing with oil many sick people and healing them.
As the elders pray, they are to anoint the sick person in order to symbolize that that person is being set apart for God’s special attention and care.
Douglas J. Moo
The Result of the Prayer 15-16
The Result of the Prayer 15-16
Effect of Prayer
Effect of Prayer
Restore (Save)
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
Raised Up (15)
“This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.
knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and will present us with you.
“We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.
Effective Prayer
Effective
to put one’s capabilities into operation, work, be at work, be active, operate, be effective
Prayer
urgent request to meet a need, exclusively addressed to God, prayer
Righteous
to being in accordance with high standards of rectitude, upright, just, fair
rectitude - morally correct behaviour.
—ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin rectitudo, from Latin rectus ‘right, straight’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
Accomplish
to have requisite personal resources to accomplish someth., have power, be competent, be able
987God the Holy Ghost writes our prayers, God the Son presents our prayers, and God the Father accepts our prayers. And with the whole Trinity to help us in it, what cannot prayer perform?—54.342, 343
Charles Spurgeon
Effect of Confession
Effect of Confession
Confess
Not everyone is sick because of sin; not everyone who is sick has unforgiven sin, but there are some of both.
Kurt A. Richardson
and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.
And all the country of Judea was going out to him, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.
Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.
1594 A man who confesses his sins in the presence of a brother knows that he is no longer alone with himself; he experiences the presence of God in the reality of the other person. As long as I am by myself in the confession of my sins everything remains in the dark, but in the presence of a brother the sin has to be brought into the light.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Healed
and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.
and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
(See also: Confession; Contrition; Penitence; Repentance)
Conviction is not repentance. It is one thing to be awakened at five o’clock in the morning, but it is another thing to get up.
Anonymous
The Requirement of Prayer 17-18
The Requirement of Prayer 17-18
Illustration based on the Effective Prayer of a Righteous Man
You can pray
You can pray
Elijah was human just like you
and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, and preach the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
You can see the results
You can see the results
Elijah prayed and saw results
When we pray Thy will be done, we are praying first of all that God’s will become our own will. Second, we are praying that His will prevail all over the earth as it [does] in heaven.
John F. MacArthur
Lit: He prayed with prayer
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
Now it happened after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth.”
So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he crouched down on the earth and put his face between his knees.
In a little while the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy shower. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.