July 19, 2022
Tuesday
Prayer That Heals
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual
fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
James 5:16
Five times in biblical history we find an abundance of miracles: in the days of Moses, the
prophets like Elijah and Elisha, Christ, the apostles, and during the coming Tribulation. That
doesn’t mean that miracles can’t happen in other instances. But if we need God’s
intervention, the focus should be where we find it in Elijah’s life, and later in the apostle
James’ life.
When the son of the widow who fed Elijah fell ill and died, Elijah cried out to God three
times for his healing and restoration to life. And God answered Elijah’s fervent prayers. But
when Paul needed a miracle of deliverance from some situation in his life, he prayed
fervently three times and his “thorn” wasn’t removed—and Paul was satisfied with God’s
answer (2 Corinthians 12:7-10). Both men prayed but God’s answer differed. When it came
to praying for God’s intervention, James exhorted the Church to follow Elijah’s example and
pray, saying the “fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”
James says to confess our sins, then pray fervently. And then be ready to praise God
whatever the answer.
A point to ponder…
Fervent prayers produce phenomenal results.
Woodrow Kroll
Read the Bible through in a year
Proverbs 19-21
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