DCLM HIGHER EVERYDAY 13 DECEMBER 2021 — GOD’S POTENT PRESCRIPTION – 2
DCLM Higher Everyday 13 DECEMBER 2021 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi —GOD’S POTENT PRESCRIPTION – 2
TOPIC: GOD’S POTENT PRESCRIPTION – 2
TEXT: JAMES 5:13-18
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 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:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 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.
17 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.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
MEMORY VERSE: “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” (JAMES 5:16).
MESSAGE
Felix was envied and hated by his classmates for his exceptional academic performance, and worse still, for his uncompromising stance against vices perpetrated by them.
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One day, Samson, a notorious classmate of Felix who often spearheaded hostilities against him, fell critically ill. All Samson’s gang mates tried all they could to help him recover to no avail.
Felix came to the scene, spoke words of faith and prayed for him and he was instantaneously healed. They were all broken and confessed their faults to Felix, who took the opportunity to lead them to Christ.
Prayer is talking to God. It is a place where pride is abandoned, hope is lifted and supplication is made. For one’s prayer to be answered, there must be confession of faults to God and then to fellow men, especially those our actions have affected. Faith and fervency are also crucial for prayer to be effective.
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There is no situation that is impossible for God to deal with. Have a groaning in your heart for a change of situation and travail in prayer until the answer comes. God bless you!
QUOTE: Prayer is talking to God.
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CHALLENGE: Nothing prayer cannot do.
PRAYER: Lord, please forgive my faults and intervene in my problematic situations.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
