Prayer 2021 - August 17 - What James Had to Say About Prayer pt 12

Scripture For Today: 2 Samuel 7:18

“Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and he said: “Who am I, Sovereign Lord, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?”

What James Had to Say About Prayer pt 12

We have been studying what the Apostle James had to say about prayer. We have been studying the verses from James 5:13-18:

“Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any Merry? Let him sing psalms. 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. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth by the space of three years and six months! And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit.”

Yesterday, we left off by pointing out that we are NOW the “Righteousness of God!” Amen!

That is a very important concept you must come to accept! This is what will get your prayers answered!

I remember a time, way back when, as I was just being introduced to the Word of Faith, where I could not pray my way out of wet paper bag. I would ask someone else to pray for me and “WHAM” I would have my prayer request answered!

Then, there came a day when I did not have someone TO PRAY with me… I will not go into all the details, but it involved my daughter who was pregnant with my granddaughter at the time. Early on in the pregnancy.

I had just graduated from a great, Faith based Bible school in Texas. I was on fire for God and BELIEVED I could move mountains by speaking to them! Amen! You get the picture?

My daughter came home crying. She said there was something very wrong with the sonogram. She had it video taped. She said the doctor told her there was no blood supply to the brain (there was a big medical term for it, but that is what it boiled down to). He was going to make her an appointment with another doctor to “give her some options.”

And we all know what kind of “options” they were talking about…

I asked her what she wanted to do? Her response was, “I believe if YOU pray, God will heal my baby.”

NOW I WAS the other person whom someone wanted to pray for them! And this was personal, too!

I called the Bible school wanting to speak to the instructor who had taught on healing and prayer, etc. But the school staff had gone on vacation after the graduation! So I was going to go it on my own.

Long story short, I started to share with my daughter some scriptures on healing. The one I started with was John 10:10 and we went through about 20 scriptures until I could see “faith” light up her eyes. She was starting to get it!

We prayed and about 1 minute later, the phone rang. It was the doctor’s office and they had scheduled her an appointment with this other doctor to “give her some options.” This was Friday afternoon about 3pm and the appointment was Monday at 8am. My son-in-law could not take off work (he had to give notice), so I went with my daughter to the appointment.

Again, she asked them to video tape the sonogram.

But the doctor kept scratching his head, referring to the chart, doing measurements and finally, he asked, “Why are you here? This is a perfectly normal little girl!”

The two videos showed, what looked like, two completely different babies! There was definitely a difference that could be seen!

Our testimony ever since has been that God healed the baby in less than 3 days – when we prayed in Faith!

I’m not a prophet. I’m nobody special. I’m not a prayer warrior or some great intercessor or some great evangelist.

But I am a Child of the Most High God, an Heir of God and a Joint Heir with Jesus Christ. I am the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God. I have the Anointing of God in me and on me. I know when I pray, I expect results.

After that incident with my granddaughter in her mothers womb – I expect to receive my prayers answered EVERY TIME I pray. And we do see our prayers answered.

I’ve prayed for people in hospice care and they were released to go home…

I’ve prayed for people that have had four quadruple bypass surgeries, and were told there was nothing else they could do…they were popping nitro glycerin pills like candy. After I prayed, they never took another pill and their cardiologist said it looked like they had brand new heart.

Those are just a couple of the many testimonies. Amen!

Again, I’m not saying that to demonstrate some great faith on my part. I’m sharing this so YOU can see what power if available if YOU will just start to walk it out and believe YOU are created in the image of Christ whose in the Image of God and that YOU possess the RIGHTEOSNESS of God!

I’m way over time today…

Let’s Pray!

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