James 5:13-5:18

Effective Prayer

As we continue in chapter five of James, we come to this segment and learn that prayer is a purposeful response in all seasons of life including suffering, persecution and sin, but also including joy. Even the good times can be a call to pray for others. This segment from James covers the many applications for prayer in all seasons of life for all Believers. Prayer for the afflicted will be the central theme in this message from Pastor Lloyd.

  1. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
  2. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
  3. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
  4. 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.
  5. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
  6. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.