Devotional Day 5: “Bringing Back the Wanderers” “My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back…” James 5:19 Like football player Roy Riegals, I’ve gone the wrong way before. Shame wanted to bench me, but grace put me back in the game! If you’ve…
Devotional Day 4: “Bringing Back the Wanderers” “…whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will…cover a multitude of sins.” – James 5:20 I can’t atone for anyone’s sin. But by God’s grace, I can be part of bringing wanderers back to the saving love of Jesus. His blood is…
Devotional Day 3: “Bringing Back the Wanderers” “My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death…” – James 5:19-20 Loving someone enough to call them back…
Devotional Day 2 “Bringing Back the Wanderers” “…and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death…” – James 5:19-20 God calls us to gently restore wanderers in the faith. As uncomfortable as it can be, confronting…
Devotional Day 1 based on “Bringing Back Wanderers” “My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth…” – James 5:19 When we wander from God’s truth in belief or behavior, there’s always something beneath the surface influencing us. As I examine areas where I’ve wandered, what desires, hurts, fears…
James 5:17-18 upholds Elijah “a man with a nature like ours” whose prayers unleashed drought and rainfall over Israel. James spotlights him to dispel our doubts in prayer’s potency. We sometimes excuse powerless prayers based on perceived personal inadequacy or disbelief in God’s power. Yet the Bible shows ordinary people…
In sickness and adversity, Scripture charges us to “confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed” (James 5:16). Yet tragically, many people lack meaningful friendships within the Body of Christ where candid confession and intercessory prayer occur. We often try going it…
In James 5:15, James connects sin and sickness, urging the sick to “confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.” Scripture testifies sickness can at times result from or reveal sin which calls for repentance and forgiveness (Ps 38:3, Ps 107:17, 1…
James 5:14-15 instructs church elders to anoint the sick with oil and pray over them for their healing, exhibiting bold faith that “the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up.” Too often we doubt God’s power and fail to earnestly…
James 5:13 instructs, “Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray.” Rather than wallowing in self-pity when we suffer, we should immediately bring our pain to God in prayer. Just as the Psalmist cried out to God from “the belly of Sheol” (Ps 30:3), so God wants us to cast…