"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.
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."
James 5:16-17
I like the confess our faults to one another part. ... Instead of hiding our weaknesses from other people, maybe if we expressed them and didn't conceal them, we would get a lot more help in learning to make them strengths... and also, really, understand so much clearer how similar we all are. We'd have a support system spanning the planet if we really talked to each other about what is going on in our lives, and prayed for each other, as the scripture also asks. :) Prayer matters. And the next verse emphasizes this point, as well as the point about us all being in the same boat. Everyone gets tempted... and God is listening to all of us. We can make a difference in the world.
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."
James 5:16-17
I like the confess our faults to one another part. ... Instead of hiding our weaknesses from other people, maybe if we expressed them and didn't conceal them, we would get a lot more help in learning to make them strengths... and also, really, understand so much clearer how similar we all are. We'd have a support system spanning the planet if we really talked to each other about what is going on in our lives, and prayed for each other, as the scripture also asks. :) Prayer matters. And the next verse emphasizes this point, as well as the point about us all being in the same boat. Everyone gets tempted... and God is listening to all of us. We can make a difference in the world.
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