Sometimes We Need Help In Our Praying
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Sometimes We Need Help In Our Prayers
Sometimes We Need Help In Our Prayers
vs 14 - We need others to come alongside us to help pray for us.
Maybe you don’t have “the faith” you need to come to God...”weak in faith” - astheneia. But you can let the faith of the spiritually mature intercede on your behalf...4 friends bringing the paralytic...
Call for the elders of the church.
presbuteros - nuanced with the aspect of authority, dignity, and spiritual maturity.
one’s with the spiritual gift of healing intercession - ponder the spiritual gift aspect of healing here as well.
to bid to come -
Implies the inability to come to the elders.
But does not exclude coming to - the calling for also being - please come and pray for me as you are coming up front for prayer.
This is a volitional act on the part of the individual, or those who care.
And some men were carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed; and they were trying to bring him in and to set him down in front of Him. But not finding any way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiles with his stretcher, into the middle of the crowd, in front of Jesus. Seeing their faith, He said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven you.”
Also would designate the seriousness of the issue.
Not going to bother the elders with petty matters...
In James, it’s specifically prayer from the elders of the church.
It’s interesting the word for sickness here is the word astheneia -
It literally means to be weak, which has all kinds of nuances.
We need others to come alongside us in our weakness.
It also says, “He must call for the elders.”
This is initiated by the individual needing prayer.
Sometimes we are too prideful to ask for prayer.
We have too much pride to come forward to the altar to receive prayer.
Requesting prayer takes humility.
But, humility is absolutely necessary for effective praying.
But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
In general, maybe the weakness we are having is in faith itself.
This would be another reason why we need others to come alongside us to pray over us.
And they came, bringing to Him a paralytic, carried by four men. Being unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying. And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
“But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic, “I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home.” And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and were glorifying God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this.”
In this line of thinking, coming to the elders for prayer is like placing yourself
A final place we find help in our prayers - The Holy Spirit
In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
