Prayer Changes Things
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails 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 land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. James 5:16-20
It’s true, prayer does bring change to things. But prayer that is misdirected or out of God’s will changes nothing. It must be prayed in faith, believing God with truth at the center of the prayer. Those who wander from the truth become a sinner who go in the error of their ways and a soul which is going into death. God does not hear the prayers of unrighteous and wicked men unless the repent.
The righteous man must keep to God only. Keep to the Word and the truth. Keep to the wisdom He has given them and the Words He has spoken to them. He is to ignore human earthly wisdom which is sensual and devilish as God’s word is true
Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh. Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom.
But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. James 3:11-17
The winds in the storm are blowing down the vineyards of the proud. They are crossing the land from coast to coast and destroying the strongholds of foolish men. They are changing the landscape in such a way that it will never be the same again, nor, for the matter, should it. The winds are blowing all across this land. They are holding the enemy at bay. They are driving the enemy from the land and bringing peace again. They are walking where they were never expected to go. They are devastating the land. Make no mistake the whirlwind is a judgment and it purges the entire land.
Heaven and earth may pass away but the truths of God remain forever. Never in the history of mankind has the whirlwind been so terrible. From here is only more devastation because when the call went out, no one cared or bothers to listen, their agendas were too full for any other. When men come to be as they are right now, the answer from Heaven is the same. Judgment for blessing and pain for joy, the choice is each man’s whatever. The darkness enters where light once was and brings it black cohorts with it.
The invisible realm is the true realm, the physical is the other. When the eye views a thing it sees upside-down and imagines is sees it proper. So is our spiritual eyes. The inner understanding of God. The place where men commune with their Lord. They think they see in the right order but their thinking is warped and void. Let no man say he is greater than God. Let no man say he is able to out think Him. No man is able but his mouth destroys him and turns God to others. Then, he wonders why God does not answer.
The heathen is better than the greatest evangelist. He is humble when God delivers him from his situation and appreciates what has been done for him. However, the religious man is a religious man and he does not reach God at all. His actions speak louder than his words and he hopes by thinking it out he will escape any judgment.
But, God is no fool. He knows the hearts of men. He knows when they are just doing it again. No, man is sure he has it on right and God discerns it other. So, where does man stand, on this side or that? Only God knows whatever.
The judgments of God they come and they go, it seems unimportant whatever. But, this is not true for me and for you, the answer is in each other. The Kingdom is come, Thy will be gone, on earth as it is in Heaven. So we chant with one voice and pretend to rejoice when hardship is the bitter cup we drink from.
But, the answer is in us in the form of the Prince, and we presume He accepts whatever from us. This is not true. We must follow His voice and do His will, we have no other choice. Yet, many can’t hear and more can’t see and no one understands the right choices.
The answer is simple, the way is clear, humble your heart and surrender your will. The One you serve is greater than your desires and ways. Delight in His way and no other.
Jesus Christ is the Way-Maker! The winds in every storm of life. He is healing and rearranging the land. He is redecorating it. He is re-shaping it and molding it to his will and it’s own will! Those who chose to flow along with God when He comes over them will do so. Those who chose to believe their traditions and philosophies will be left behind. It is just that simple.
Men say, “God is in the mood for change,” but this is not true. It is man who is in the “mood” for change. He knows he needs it. He knows he can’t make it without it. He knows there has to be something more than the dull, uneventful life he is leading. He knows deep in his knower that without God’s re-vitalizing Presence he is an empty brass symbol, clanging away without any real purpose.
True men desire true wisdom, true love and true purpose. They don’t just want to have what they can never get, they want what they “know” is their birthright—peace from above and the wisdom to know the difference.
Let every man desire the “sincere meat of the Word.” Let him come and hunger after the things of God and desire to hear directly from Him. For in so doing they become as Apostle Paul, entering the Syrian wilderness for three and a half years until he began his ministry to the Gentiles.
Let no man say he is above the truth for then he is the liar. He has deceived himself into believing he is above the spiritual laws of the universe. He thinks he can escape with clever calculations and cunning tricks to escape the consequences of his behavior and sinful ways. However, eventually they get him in the end. He falls victim to his own well laid plans because they were the plans of men and not God.
Let every man be a liar and God be true. There is no escaping God. He will find you wherever you run or hide upon the entire earth. There is no escaping Him and his truths. They are all about us and never changing and always present everywhere at all times. Jonah found this out to be true when he lay in the belly of a real live whale for three days. He could not escape the truth for the truth is the Lord and He is present everywhere always.
Men may think they have won. Men may think they have overcome but it is God who determines the outcome. His truths determine the result. If men follow the line of thinking of the truth they will find peace, joy, well-being and happiness because these things are only found in the Lord. However, if men think they are above such things they will pay the consequence for their ignorance of the universal spiritual truths that exist all around them everyday of their lives.
God’s truths are eternal. Like a coolly burning blue white flame, they burn out the imperfections in our lives. They destroy the darkness in our souls and they heal the whole person—body, spirit, soul and mind. God is not to be mocked what a man sows he reaps, but nor is a man whipped when he is already down. God forgives and uplifts the truly humble heart. Therefore, our humility is more important than anything else for without it we can never enter the Holy of Holies to find mercy and grace in time of trouble.
The Heavens and earth are full of God’s Glory and He never change in His intentions and purposes for those who truly love Him and desire to serve Him with all of their hearts. He is the Way-maker and the winds in the storms of those who serve Him. He is the tornado and hurricane. He is doing what He has been called to do. He is being God to mankind. Though it is not perfect He is in the middle of it. He allows and He disallows and nothing happens except He is in it. He sees all men do and He vindicates the innocent and punishes the guilty. This has never changed down through history. For God has never changed.
The enemy is sifting God’s people for His Name’s sake. For they have served themselves only. They pay Him lip service but their hearts are truly far from Him. They say they know Him but don’t understand how to walk with Him. They do themselves great harm and God’s Name is defamed because of them.
As a result in due season they will be destroyed. God desires to stop their destruction but they have not asked Him and He cannot do anything but pure justice. They have defiled the truth and defrauded their spirits. They have come up far short of where they intended and have failed both themselves and God.
God has prepared a place for them they did not intent to go. They have forgotten the government is upon His shoulders and He lifts one up and puts another down. He has prepared a place of destruction and appointed hour of annihilation. Their appointment will be met and their end is assured. They have chosen it and now it is inevitable.
Destruction comes as a stalking spirit in the middle of the night to bring them to their end. They thought for a season all is well but that is even vanity and deception. They have given into their dark side and brought destruction upon themselves. Now, they must pay the piper.
But for God’s true righteous ones there is no distance in prayer. They must keep praying and keep expecting because God is the wind in your sails, the rudder of your ship and the healing in their body and souls.
The heathen has imagined a vain thing. They have imagined there is no God. They have believed there is no God and God is moving to heal their imagination and determination to serve only themselves.
Can He do it? Is there a God? Yes! I can do it! He will call forth Children from the very rocks. They will cry out against the Children of Israel! He has determined they will be destroyed because they refused to heed His Voice! Let all praise the Lord, including the rocks themselves.
A new day has dawned. The beginning of the end for many hedonists and semanticists. The church is being renovated and redecorated. It will not look the same on the inside when God is finished with it. It is His bride and He has much work to do in her and with her. He never lets His bride go or leaves her to her own ways. He has been in charge despite what it looks like. But, now is the hour of change and deliverance for many of God’s true Ones and they will be held by religious foolishness not much longer.
God is moving consistently and continually against His enemies to deal with all who are sure they are His very own but only serve themselves. He will bring a real change to the land and the landowners. The land is about to change hands. There are new owners waiting in the wings for the vineyard and new hands will till the soil and tend the garden. Those to whom God has given the land have failed to tend is properly and carefully. They have gone lax and self-centered. Desiring the better part for themselves and not others.
But healing is flying on “healing wings” bringing about the promises God has made to so many who have waited so patiently. God is grieved to the very heart of things men do to each other in the name of their faith. He is so grieved wounded and hurt and sorrow for them. For without God they are so empty and lost in all of their busy-ness.
He grieves for His lost children and hurt souls. He is so grieved and wounded for them. He desires that His children pray for His wounded children. For they are in such deep need of Him! They don’t understand how much they need Him! They pretend serve God but their hearts are far from Him!
Yet, God can regenerate even foolish men and convict them of their wicked ways For He is their true Redeemer and dear Friend and He loves to answer the prayers of His righteous ones. His word is true:
The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their cry. The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles. The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the LORD delivers him out of them all. Psalm 34:15-19
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails 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 land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. James 5:16-20
It’s true, prayer does bring change to things. But prayer that is misdirected or out of God’s will changes nothing. It must be prayed in faith, believing God with truth at the center of the prayer. Those who wander from the truth become a sinner who go in the error of their ways and a soul which is going into death. God does not hear the prayers of unrighteous and wicked men unless the repent.
The righteous man must keep to God only. Keep to the Word and the truth. Keep to the wisdom He has given them and the Words He has spoken to them. He is to ignore human earthly wisdom which is sensual and devilish as God’s word is true
Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh. Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom.
But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. James 3:11-17
The winds in the storm are blowing down the vineyards of the proud. They are crossing the land from coast to coast and destroying the strongholds of foolish men. They are changing the landscape in such a way that it will never be the same again, nor, for the matter, should it. The winds are blowing all across this land. They are holding the enemy at bay. They are driving the enemy from the land and bringing peace again. They are walking where they were never expected to go. They are devastating the land. Make no mistake the whirlwind is a judgment and it purges the entire land.
Heaven and earth may pass away but the truths of God remain forever. Never in the history of mankind has the whirlwind been so terrible. From here is only more devastation because when the call went out, no one cared or bothers to listen, their agendas were too full for any other. When men come to be as they are right now, the answer from Heaven is the same. Judgment for blessing and pain for joy, the choice is each man’s whatever. The darkness enters where light once was and brings it black cohorts with it.
The invisible realm is the true realm, the physical is the other. When the eye views a thing it sees upside-down and imagines is sees it proper. So is our spiritual eyes. The inner understanding of God. The place where men commune with their Lord. They think they see in the right order but their thinking is warped and void. Let no man say he is greater than God. Let no man say he is able to out think Him. No man is able but his mouth destroys him and turns God to others. Then, he wonders why God does not answer.
The heathen is better than the greatest evangelist. He is humble when God delivers him from his situation and appreciates what has been done for him. However, the religious man is a religious man and he does not reach God at all. His actions speak louder than his words and he hopes by thinking it out he will escape any judgment.
But, God is no fool. He knows the hearts of men. He knows when they are just doing it again. No, man is sure he has it on right and God discerns it other. So, where does man stand, on this side or that? Only God knows whatever.
The judgments of God they come and they go, it seems unimportant whatever. But, this is not true for me and for you, the answer is in each other. The Kingdom is come, Thy will be gone, on earth as it is in Heaven. So we chant with one voice and pretend to rejoice when hardship is the bitter cup we drink from.
But, the answer is in us in the form of the Prince, and we presume He accepts whatever from us. This is not true. We must follow His voice and do His will, we have no other choice. Yet, many can’t hear and more can’t see and no one understands the right choices.
The answer is simple, the way is clear, humble your heart and surrender your will. The One you serve is greater than your desires and ways. Delight in His way and no other.
Jesus Christ is the Way-Maker! The winds in every storm of life. He is healing and rearranging the land. He is redecorating it. He is re-shaping it and molding it to his will and it’s own will! Those who chose to flow along with God when He comes over them will do so. Those who chose to believe their traditions and philosophies will be left behind. It is just that simple.
Men say, “God is in the mood for change,” but this is not true. It is man who is in the “mood” for change. He knows he needs it. He knows he can’t make it without it. He knows there has to be something more than the dull, uneventful life he is leading. He knows deep in his knower that without God’s re-vitalizing Presence he is an empty brass symbol, clanging away without any real purpose.
True men desire true wisdom, true love and true purpose. They don’t just want to have what they can never get, they want what they “know” is their birthright—peace from above and the wisdom to know the difference.
Let every man desire the “sincere meat of the Word.” Let him come and hunger after the things of God and desire to hear directly from Him. For in so doing they become as Apostle Paul, entering the Syrian wilderness for three and a half years until he began his ministry to the Gentiles.
Let no man say he is above the truth for then he is the liar. He has deceived himself into believing he is above the spiritual laws of the universe. He thinks he can escape with clever calculations and cunning tricks to escape the consequences of his behavior and sinful ways. However, eventually they get him in the end. He falls victim to his own well laid plans because they were the plans of men and not God.
Let every man be a liar and God be true. There is no escaping God. He will find you wherever you run or hide upon the entire earth. There is no escaping Him and his truths. They are all about us and never changing and always present everywhere at all times. Jonah found this out to be true when he lay in the belly of a real live whale for three days. He could not escape the truth for the truth is the Lord and He is present everywhere always.
Men may think they have won. Men may think they have overcome but it is God who determines the outcome. His truths determine the result. If men follow the line of thinking of the truth they will find peace, joy, well-being and happiness because these things are only found in the Lord. However, if men think they are above such things they will pay the consequence for their ignorance of the universal spiritual truths that exist all around them everyday of their lives.
God’s truths are eternal. Like a coolly burning blue white flame, they burn out the imperfections in our lives. They destroy the darkness in our souls and they heal the whole person—body, spirit, soul and mind. God is not to be mocked what a man sows he reaps, but nor is a man whipped when he is already down. God forgives and uplifts the truly humble heart. Therefore, our humility is more important than anything else for without it we can never enter the Holy of Holies to find mercy and grace in time of trouble.
The Heavens and earth are full of God’s Glory and He never change in His intentions and purposes for those who truly love Him and desire to serve Him with all of their hearts. He is the Way-maker and the winds in the storms of those who serve Him. He is the tornado and hurricane. He is doing what He has been called to do. He is being God to mankind. Though it is not perfect He is in the middle of it. He allows and He disallows and nothing happens except He is in it. He sees all men do and He vindicates the innocent and punishes the guilty. This has never changed down through history. For God has never changed.
The enemy is sifting God’s people for His Name’s sake. For they have served themselves only. They pay Him lip service but their hearts are truly far from Him. They say they know Him but don’t understand how to walk with Him. They do themselves great harm and God’s Name is defamed because of them.
As a result in due season they will be destroyed. God desires to stop their destruction but they have not asked Him and He cannot do anything but pure justice. They have defiled the truth and defrauded their spirits. They have come up far short of where they intended and have failed both themselves and God.
God has prepared a place for them they did not intent to go. They have forgotten the government is upon His shoulders and He lifts one up and puts another down. He has prepared a place of destruction and appointed hour of annihilation. Their appointment will be met and their end is assured. They have chosen it and now it is inevitable.
Destruction comes as a stalking spirit in the middle of the night to bring them to their end. They thought for a season all is well but that is even vanity and deception. They have given into their dark side and brought destruction upon themselves. Now, they must pay the piper.
But for God’s true righteous ones there is no distance in prayer. They must keep praying and keep expecting because God is the wind in your sails, the rudder of your ship and the healing in their body and souls.
The heathen has imagined a vain thing. They have imagined there is no God. They have believed there is no God and God is moving to heal their imagination and determination to serve only themselves.
Can He do it? Is there a God? Yes! I can do it! He will call forth Children from the very rocks. They will cry out against the Children of Israel! He has determined they will be destroyed because they refused to heed His Voice! Let all praise the Lord, including the rocks themselves.
A new day has dawned. The beginning of the end for many hedonists and semanticists. The church is being renovated and redecorated. It will not look the same on the inside when God is finished with it. It is His bride and He has much work to do in her and with her. He never lets His bride go or leaves her to her own ways. He has been in charge despite what it looks like. But, now is the hour of change and deliverance for many of God’s true Ones and they will be held by religious foolishness not much longer.
God is moving consistently and continually against His enemies to deal with all who are sure they are His very own but only serve themselves. He will bring a real change to the land and the landowners. The land is about to change hands. There are new owners waiting in the wings for the vineyard and new hands will till the soil and tend the garden. Those to whom God has given the land have failed to tend is properly and carefully. They have gone lax and self-centered. Desiring the better part for themselves and not others.
But healing is flying on “healing wings” bringing about the promises God has made to so many who have waited so patiently. God is grieved to the very heart of things men do to each other in the name of their faith. He is so grieved wounded and hurt and sorrow for them. For without God they are so empty and lost in all of their busy-ness.
He grieves for His lost children and hurt souls. He is so grieved and wounded for them. He desires that His children pray for His wounded children. For they are in such deep need of Him! They don’t understand how much they need Him! They pretend serve God but their hearts are far from Him!
Yet, God can regenerate even foolish men and convict them of their wicked ways For He is their true Redeemer and dear Friend and He loves to answer the prayers of His righteous ones. His word is true:
The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their cry. The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles. The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the LORD delivers him out of them all. Psalm 34:15-19
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