Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms. Is anyone among you sick? 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 will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins…James 5:13-20
Looking For Peace
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. James 3:13-18
While reading this scripture written by James, the brother of Jesus, I am curious if any part of it may have stung or caused a little discomfort? If so praise God because then that means that He loves you and He wants you to address the sting. As we are taught with Pharoah if we continue to neglect the Truth of God then our hearts can harden to a point that will not only destroy us but they can affect our families as well.
I plead with you from my heart to yours to not allow Satan to spiritually rob you of the peace that can be experienced with God when we become transparent and obedient in His Word…
No Favortism With God
My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality. For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes, and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor man, “You stand there,” or, “Sit here at my footstool,” have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.”Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
James 2:1-12
Are You Ready For Judgement?
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does…James 1:22-25
This life is no joke and if we think that we will not be held responsible for our disobedience in Gods Word then we are only fooling our self. God’s instruction for our lives gives us strength and protection while recognizing that we are here for a higher purpose. Have you discovered your higher purpose or are you too caught up in the world to see the Heavens?
I challenge you today in my hearts plea to adhere to the Word of God and to insure that your are not carrying something that could you back from the Kingdom of God. Judgement is coming and the question is,”Are You Ready?” If not then seek godly council to get your life in order…
James A. Harrison
God’s Truth On Arrogance
Can you tell the difference between someone that is humble verses someone that is proud or arrogant? Have you ever been around someone that always boasted on their accomplishments verses someone who just simply did their jobs as God instructs us to do. What about someone who always tried to point out what they were doing or what they had done in order to fill themselves with the attention of man?
Satan is very clever and can deceive us very easily when we allow him to rob us of who we are with God. It doesn’t matter what we have done or how many plaques may be on the wall or trophies in the case! For all that matters is that we learn to do the best we can where we are with what we have been given through the love of Jesus Christ and everything else will just follow. By developing our relationship with the Lord it allows our hearts and souls to be filled with the inner confidence of God which can exceed anything this world has to offer. I challenge you today to seek God for your inner confidence without trying to run your self ragged in the world…Amen
1 Peter 5:5 “God resists the proud. But gives grace to the humble.”
James A. Harrison
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