{"id":5567,"date":"2013-10-31T00:40:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T06:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2013-10-30T08:47:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T14:47:45","slug":"pray-for-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=5567","title":{"rendered":"Pray for Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c….The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much\u201d (James 5:16b).<\/em>
\nIn week two I shared the first part of James 5:16. I return to www.biblegateway.com for these comments on the remaining part of our verse. \u201cThe term righteous is a call for every believer to reach towards righteousness.\u00a0 All along James has been urging his readers to resist the temptation to compromise righteousness in their trials. Now, with the designation of the one praying as righteous with the shift in terms from general \u201cprayer\u201d to specific \u201centreaty,\u201d the implication is as follows:\u00a0 In your trials, you don’t need the power gained by money or favoritism or selfishness or fighting or swearing; use the power of prayer, for which you need righteousness.\u201d\u00a0 Later in the article we find these words: \u201cJames is merely convinced that genuinefaith will express itself in righteousness, and, the prayer of genuine faith is the prayer that is effective….confident beelief in God’s grace will makeme strong for acting righteously in the midst of trials.\u201d<\/p>\n

I’m thankful that, through the years, I have been surrounded by genuine prayer warriors.\u00a0 I value their prayers for me. Often times we intercede in behalf of others that God would give them physical or spiritual healing. However, we might neglect praying for our own needs. Never be ashamed to reach fellow Christian to pray for your own healing.\u00a0 It’s been proven, \u201cthe effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sue Winchester
\nMissouri<\/p>\n

PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>On this darkest of days, pray that God’s light would shine forth brightly through believers’ efforts to share the gospel and goodness of God with children who come trick-or-treating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201c….The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much\u201d (James 5:16b). In week two I shared the first part of James 5:16. I return to www.biblegateway.com for these comments on the remaining part of our verse. \u201cThe term righteous … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5568,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions\/5568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}