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PRAYERS OF THE BIBLE SERIES – THE BOOK OF JAMES, #12
Friday, February 19th, 2016METHODOLOGY CONCERNING: EFFECTIVE PRAYER
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much (James 5:16a).
When a righteous man (a saved person- male or female) prays, God hears and remembers. Even if the answer is to be sent from Heaven 20 years later, God has it. Conversely, scripture tells us that God will not listen to the prayer of an unrighteous man – unless that person is crying out to Him for forgiveness of sin, the first step to salvation. From the Word of God:
– But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear (Isaiah 59:2)
– Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him (John 9:31).
As just an example, these two verses above prove that there is no doubt God will never listen to the “prayers” of the unsaved. However, God will not pay attention to a Christian who is out of fellowship either. That is, one who is currently going through a season of rebellion and is not praying or reading the Bible….or even attending church, on purpose. The Apostle Paul said “should I keep sinning that grace may abound? May it never be!” Think if the fuel injector in your car. If it is clogged by the impurities (sin) of the gasoline going in through it from the pump (the human), there is no way the internal combustion engine can function as was meant by the automaker.
Therefore, we must be free AND forgiven from current sin. We should never be like the person whom James talks about here in James 1:6-7 “But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord”.
So what about about the “effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man“?…..READ MORE HERE:
PRAYERS OF THE BIBLE SERIES – THE BOOK OF JAMES, #11
Friday, February 19th, 2016METHODOLOGY CONCERNING: INTERCESSION
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much (James 5:16a).
There is no greater gift you can give a friend than to pray for them, after you have told them about Jesus and what He has done for you. This makes you and each Christian who follows the teaching of the Scriptures (through James here) – an intercessor.
An intercessor is one who stands in the gap for someone else in prayer and supplication to the Father in Heaven.
An intercessor is one who has such an intimate relationship with God that when this Christian man or woman approaches the Throne Room of heaven – day or night – our Heavenly Father listens.
An intercessor is one who is prayed up, stayed up and weighed up in the Scales of Heaven and found wanted by the LORD as one of His dearest saints.
An intercessor is a prayer warrior who lays a hold of the need of another or many others and does not let go, even after the result has been achieved because that desired result only leads to more and more praise to the Most High God….READ MORE HERE