Do you remember the first time you desperately prayed to God?
James 5:13-15
2 reasons “certainty” is a misinterpretation:
1. Jesus doesn’t equate faith with
2. Even Jesus had
James 5:15-16
Mark 2:17
Without Christ, you and I are
Sometimes we are sick because of sin done
us &
us. Sometimes, we are sick because of unconfessed sin done
us.
“The most experienced psychologist or observer of human nature knows infinitely less of the human heart than the simplest Christian who lives beneath the Cross of Jesus. The greatest psychological insight, ability, and experience cannot grasp this one thing: what sin is. Worldly wisdom knows what distress and weakness and failure are, but it does not know the godlessness of man. And so it also does not know that man is destroyed only by his sin and can be healed only by forgiveness. Only the Christian knows this. In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
James 5:16-18
“The potency of prayer has subdued the strength of fire. It has bridled the rage of lions. It has expelled demons. It has broken the chains of death. It has assuaged diseases. It has rescued cities from destruction.” —John Chrysostom
How do you know you are praying prayers of faith? You set yourself up to be
or
.
James 5:13