1. The Book of James
Lesson 32
Chapter 5 vss

2. James 5:13–18 (NASB95) Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises. Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him. Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish 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 earth for three years and six months. Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.

3. The Importance of Prayer
Pray in Suffering Pray in Songs of Worship Pray in Sickness Pray about Sin Pray for Society Pray in Scriptural Sincerity Pray for the Substantial

4. The Importance of Prayer
Pray in Suffering
James 1:1–4 (NASB95)
James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings.
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

5. The Importance of Prayer
Pray in Suffering
Psalm 34:15–18 (NASB95)
The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous
And His ears are open to their cry.
The face of the LORD is against evildoers,
To cut off the memory of them from the earth.
The righteous cry, and the LORD hears
And delivers them out of all their troubles.
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted
And saves those who are crushed in spirit.

6. The Importance of Prayer
Pray in Songs of Worship
1 Chronicles 16:4, 8–11 (NASB95)
He appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the LORD, even to celebrate and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:...
... Oh give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name;
Make known His deeds among the peoples.
Sing to Him, sing praises to Him;
Speak of all His wonders.
Glory in His holy name;
Let the heart of those who seek the LORD be glad.
Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face continually.

7. The Importance of Prayer
Pray in Sickness
Elders + oil + faith = restoration?
Matthew 9:5–8 (NASB95)
“Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk’? But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—then He *said to the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your bed and go home.”
And he got up and went home.
But when the crowds saw this, they were awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

8. The Importance of Prayer
Pray in Sickness
Elders + oil + faith = restoration?
1 John 5:14–15 (NASB95)
This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.
Note to self; If there is any failure of faith in this process, it is NOT the faith of the sick person BUT the faith of the Elders

9. The Importance of Prayer
Pray in Sickness
Matthew 9:5–8 (NASB95)
“Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk’? But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—then He *said to the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your bed and go home.”
And he got up and went home.
But when the crowds saw this, they were awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

10. The Importance of Prayer
Pray about Sin
Numbers 14:15–21 (NASB95)
“Now if You slay this people as one man, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
‘Because the LORD could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
“But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared,‘The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.’

11. The Importance of Prayer
Pray about Sin
Numbers 14:15–21 (NASB95)
“Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
So the LORD said, “I have pardoned them according to your word;
but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD.

12. The Importance of Prayer
Pray about Sin
1 John 1:9 (NASB95)
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.

13. The Importance of Prayer
Pray for Society
1 Thessalonians 5:25 (NASB95)
Brethren, pray for us.
Ephesians 1:16–19 (NASB95)
(I) do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might

14. The Importance of Prayer
Pray for Society
1 Timothy 2:1–2 (NASB95)
First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and
prayers, petitions and thanksgivings,
be made on behalf of all men, for
kings and all who are in authority, so
that we may lead a tranquil and
quiet life in all godliness and
dignity.

15. The Importance of Prayer
Pray in Scriptural Sincerity
Ephesians 1:9–10 (NASB95)
He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.

16. The Importance of Prayer
Pray for the Substantial
Mark 11:23–24 (NASB95)
“Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him. Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you.”

17. Starting to shut it down
1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 (NASB95) Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus