James ch. 5, vs. 16b. The prayer of faith

Our most powerful weapon

I have been writing a lot about James in this blog(I’m talking about the epistle). Tradition tells us that James spent a lot of his waking hours on his knees in prayer to God. Prayer is putting faith into action; prayer can be a lot of work sometimes…it requires human effort. Romans 8:26,27 lets us know that the Holy Spirit will help us pray…”Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weaknesses, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.”
The King James calls it “groanings which cannot be uttered”
Groaning in the Spirit….I think that is what James is referring to when he said “the effectual prayer of a righteous man availeth much”……ch. 5 vs. 16b.
That is the greatest and most effective thing we can do in our churches, reestablish the prayer room. I’m talking about the kind of prayer that gets heaven’s attention…the kind of prayer, faith believing prayer that moves the hand of God.
Oh’ you say a person needs to be quiet before the Lord Do you think Elijah was quiet when he called down fire from heaven and God answered with fire? I’ll bet there was a lot of shouting , in fact the Bible says that there was a lot of shouting as the Israelites saw what God was doing . They were shouting aloud, “The Lord He is God…the Lord, He is God.” In the early days of Pentecost in our city, meetings were marked with shouts of victory and folks prayed aloud in effectual fervent praying; faith believing praying. Even years later, it was like that.Yes, there is always a time to be quiet before the Lord but I think our prayers have been silenced long enough, let’s return to that fervency that James refers to in his letter to the twelve tribes scattered abroad.