James 5:16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.
The Apostle James goes on in this passage to say how Elijah prayed for no rain then prayed for rain which proves he wasn't just talking about healing here. Prayer covers everything.
There are peoples' lives that will never be touched unless we pray for them. No doubt your life was touched by God because someone prayed for you somewhere along the line.
We all go through many things during the course of our lives some of which are more traumatic than others, but it's the Lord Himself and His word, His Truth that restores and rebuilds us when we turn back to Him for help in prayer. I know I've had to do it many times when life has seemed to be falling apart at the seams. But I can testify that the Lord is a restoring God, a rescuing God, a delivering God, and a Healing God.
There were days that looked so hopeless and black, when nothing made sense, when my heart was being torn apart and yet God turned it around, but I had to do my part. God can and does restore marriages. I can testify to that too, more than once, over 48 years of marriage. Those days when you think you can't go on and call on God to soften and change your hearts, your thinking.
Then there have been times when it looked like I wouldn't make it health wise either and yet I am still here strong and healthy by the grace of God. My point is that no situation we face is hopeless when we have our Saviour to turn to and know that no weapon formed against us shall prosper.
I believe one of the reasons you and I have survived things is because people were praying for us and we can do the same for others, especially if they are suffering in any way.
If Jesus is our Lord, then God counts us as a righteous person in His sight, and our verse reminds us that our prayers have great power and produce wonderful results.. They work! God is listening and responding and working behind the scenes even though we can't see it yet.
We can all pray fervently for each other, for those we love and even those we don't know. They all need our prayers, we all need each others prayers.
Everyone reading this, wherever you are in the world, has people in your lives you know need a lot of prayer right now. So let's do it, let's pray in faith for them.
Nothing is impossible with God.
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