James 5: 16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. 17 Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years! 18 Then, when he prayed again, the sky sent down rain and the earth began to yield its crops.
We think of the prophet Elijah as some sort of super human, someone who was so hooked up with God that he didn't deal with a lot of the stuff we "mere mortals" do.
But James discounts that thinking. Elijah was just like we are, put his pants on just like we do, & was a sinner with foibles & weaknesses just like we are.
And yet, he talked to God with such frequency & openness that when he prayed, God made things happen.
And evidently it isn't so much the person of Elijah that's so special - it the Person of the One he prayed to that was - & as a result, mighty things happened.
If Elijah is just like us, then t would stand to reason that the same Power & availabiity extended to Elijah is extended to us.
So, go to the obvious conclusion to this thinking...
hmmmmmmmmmm
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