Praying for One Another

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The first is our bodies get healed and restored. Or notice again how James puts it, "The prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well. The Lord will raise him up." Now that doesn't mean that every time you get prayed for or over, you're going to be healed immediately. Sometimes that happens. Sometimes it's a longer process. There are even instances where you may get prayed over and you do not get healed in the traditional or the accepted sense. The key word, you will recall, is the prayer of faith. Faith is not something anybody can drum up. Faith is a gift that God gives you whereby you know his heart, you know his mind, you have the courage to step out into it. He gives you the words to pray, and such prayers, scripture says, are powerful and effective. There's no question there ought to be much more evidence of physical healing in the body of Christ if we would but lay hold of many of the promises that God gives us. So first of all, our bodies get healed, but notice James doesn't stop there. He goes on to say that our sins are forgiven. Look at how he puts it, "The prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well. The Lord will raise him up," and then he says, "If he has sinned, he will be forgiven." In other words, not only does the Lord God promise restoration to our bodies, he promises restoration to our spirit. He promises restoration of our relationship with himself. Our sins will be forgiven. There is not only physical healing, there is also spiritual healing. And all through scripture, these two are very closely linked together, which is why James now goes on to say in verse 16, "Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed." The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. And this morning as we take a little bit of time to look at that verse together, I want to make two observations that are, I think, essential for our spiritual and physical well-being. First of all, prayer is a powerful tool that the Lord God gives to the Church. Prayer is a powerful tool. James says, "Pray for each other. Pray for each other." Now up until now, the context has been, "Call in the elders. Let them pray over you." But now he expands the scope to include each other. Pray for each other. And the reason for that, of course, is that every Christian occupies what the Bible calls a priestly office. Peter says, "You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God." A priest, by definition, in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, occupies an intermediary position between a holy God and an unholy people. And the job of the priesthood is to make sacrifices before God so that people's sins can be atoned for and that people can enter into the blessings of our relationship with God rather than having God turn his back and pour out judgment. And every time the issue of a sinful human race comes up before God, you who are a Christian can occupy an intercessory role where you run interference and you do that by pleading the blood of Jesus. And so you pray for one another. And you say, "Lord, I know this person doesn't have a right to be healed. I know this person is subject to all manner of judgment because individually and collectively we have all sinned. But remember, Lord God, you sent your son to die on the cross. He shed his blood so that that person's sins might be forgiven not only, but that person can enter into your presence with joy and with thanksgiving. And you have promised your grace. You must bless this person because of who Jesus is." That is intercession. And one of the ongoing tasks of Jesus at the right hand of God the Father as our high priest is intercession. Did you know that the Bible says He ever lives to make intercession for you? And whenever the subject of you comes up before God the Father, and whenever the great accuser wants to say, "God, I don't think you should bless that person because that person is sinned, let me remind you of all their sin. Let me remind you of your holiness and how you ought to extend judgment to them." Jesus steps in and He says, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Remember, I died and I shed my blood and because of me they deserve to be forgiven. And because of me they have access to your throne of grace." Through His Spirit He shares that authority with us. And whether you're a young believer or one that has been in the faith for a long period of time, one of the most powerful tools that God has given you, when you're faced with need whether in your own life, in the lives of your children, or in the lives of people all around you, how many times do we pull out our hair and say, "God, the troubles are so big I don't know where the ends." One of the most powerful tools that we have is the tool of intercession whereby we boldly draw near to God's throne of grace and we plead the blood of Jesus. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. Well, somebody says, "Why do I have to have somebody else pray for me? Can't I just pray for myself? I mean, doesn't Jesus say go into your closet and pray?" And He does. And there are many occasions where you and I can and need and should pray for ourselves. But I can also tell you two reasons why sometimes we need to have other brothers and sisters pray for us. Here is the first, sometimes we cannot pray for ourselves. This is especially true in times of serious illness or emotional or mental breakdown or times when we have drifted far away from God. If you've ever been in any one of those situations, you will know that precisely at those times when you most need to pray, when you are most in need of God's saving grace, it is also the hardest to pray. You can't find the words, you don't have the inclination, you don't want to, you're angry, you're upset, you're in pain. And it's in moments like that that our lives spiral downward and it's then that God wants to raise up other brothers and sisters in the family of God who can take us by the hand and who can plead with God in the places where we are incapable of pleading for ourselves. One of my favorite gospel stories in that regard is the story of the four friends who bring the paralytic to Jesus. Probably you remember it. It happened in Capernaum, which is where Jesus was living in the days of his early ministry. He was speaking away to people in this house, the place was full. They couldn't bring the paralytic through the front door. So what do they do? They climbed up on the roof. They did a little reconstruction, pulled the tiles apart, must have been quite a sight. All of a sudden the roof is opening up. I bet you that got everybody's attention. They dropped him down before Jesus and Jesus, knowing what the real issues were, looked at that man and he said, "Your sins are forgiven you." And you may remember the reaction of the Pharisees and the scribes. They were indignant. They said, "Who is this man that he thinks he can forgive sins?" Jesus responded by saying, "Listen, just to show you that I have authority not only to forgive sins, but also to heal." He said, "Get up and walk. Your sins are forgiven you." What I love about the story is that it says when Jesus saw their faith. And I think that faith was the faith of the four friends. Because see, when you've been paralyzed all your life, or who knows how long, and you've tried everything you know how to try to get a solution to your medical condition and nothing ever happens, the heavens remain closed, it's pretty easy to lose faith. And when that happens, sometimes you need somebody around you whose faith is still strong, who can drag you into the presence of Jesus, and who in the presence of Jesus can bring healing and restoration. Even the apostle Paul, a man great and strong in faith, was very much dependent on the prayers of God's people. He says in Romans 15, 31, "Pray that I may be rescued from unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there." And writing to Philemon years later, he says, "Prepare a guest room for me, because I hope to be restored to you in answer to your prayers." Why do I need other people to pray for me sometimes? Because sometimes I cannot pray for myself. And then secondly, because the Lord wants to make us interdependent on each other. He wants to create unity in the body of Christ. See God's not just interested, you've heard me say this many times, it bears repeating, He's not just interested in getting a whole bunch of individual Christians saved and going to heaven one day, He's interested in building a new community. He wants to show the world what people look like when they love God and when they love each other. And that community, the image that Paul often uses in the New Testament, is the imagery of body, and the reason for that is that the human body in such a clear and powerful way demonstrates unity in the midst of diversity. Here is how Paul puts it, writing to the Corinthians in chapter 12, he says, "Now the body is not made up of one part, but of many. If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' it would not be for that reason, it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say, 'Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,' it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But in fact, God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as He wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body. We are the body of Christ." God wants us to learn what unity is. We often think of unity as people just getting along with each other and agreeing with each other. True unity is a lot more than that. True unity is that you know you cannot do without each other. Now, how do you suppose it is that God takes multitudes of individuals, all of you, come from their own background, have their own personality, their own likes and their own dislikes? How do you suppose He makes us together to function like one body? Well, I can tell you one way in which He does it. He puts us into situations where we cannot solve our own problems, where God doesn't seem interested in solving our problems, where we need to go to each other and discover that God has already gifted other parts of the body with the gifts that we need to help us in our situation. One of the significant mentors of my life years ago was a Chinese evangelist by the name of Watchman Ni. Some of you are familiar with his name. Most of you probably are. He had a very powerful ministry in China in the 20s, 30s, 40s. He was imprisoned for his faith for many years and died just shortly after he was released. But Watchman Ni, in the early years of his life, experienced a great deal of illness, and he eventually became one of the leading founders of what is the house church movement in China today. Reports tell us that upwards of 100 million Chinese Christians meet behind the scenes. An incredible movement of the spirit of God. But as I said, he faced a lot of illness in his own life, and he found himself in a situation one day where he was confronted by significant need in his life, and the only people that he had around him were recent converts that he had led to the Lord, and he sensed the Lord saying to him, "Watchman, I want you to ask these people to lay hands on you and pray over you." And he said to himself and to the Lord, "But they're only new believers. They don't know how to pray for this. I've prayed for this for a long, long time and nothing has happened. Why should they pray?" And the Lord said, "Just do it." And so he did. And they prayed over him. And they were simple prayers, nothing special, nothing elaborate, nothing earthshaking, except they shook heaven. And God heard their prayers and healed and transformed his life. And a lot of us will have found ourselves in that situation. I have to confess to you that for many years I was pretty self-sufficient in the Christian life. The Lord had always been very gracious, walked with me very closely, answered a lot of my prayers. But as time has gone on and as the complexities of life overtake, I have never so been in a situation where I have been so dependent on the prayer, the encouragement and the support of other people. And I'll tell you something, it's mighty humbling and sometimes very painful. But you know, it's good for me and it's good for you. Because see, in the body of Christ there are no superstars. It's not like, you know, some people just have it all together and the rest of us can just sort of learn to emulate them. We are all equally in the need of grace of God. And even while it's good for me to learn to share my needs with you, it's good for you to rise to the occasion and to discover that in Christ you have your gifting, you have a contribution to make because altogether we grow in an interdependence that is healthy and godly if one part says that he needs no other part that doesn't cease to make them members of the same body. So why does the Lord sometimes not seem to answer our own prayers? Why do we struggle? Because sometimes we can't pray for ourselves and sometimes the Lord just want to teach us that we need others in the body of Christ to help us on our journey so that we truly can be representative of that new community that God is making. For those of us that have always been independent, those of us that have always been strong, that is a bitter pill to swallow. But it is necessary if God is to build healthy church and healthy community. Prayer is a powerful tool and God wants you and me to use it richly as we bring people into his presence and invite him to pour out his grace and his blessing. One thing in this passage that I want us to note and that is this. Such prayers of intercession must also include a confession of sin. For notice again how James puts it, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. Not enough just to pray for each other, we also need to confess our sins to each other. Now the Greek word for sin is the word hamartia and it literally means missing the mark. And the image is that of an archer and you're shooting at a target but you miss the bullseye. Sometimes by just a little bit, sometimes by a whole lot. Hence the definition, the translation in scripture of failure, error or sin. God says here is how I want you to live. This is the standard that I want you to aim for. We shoot in that direction and the Bible says all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. There isn't a one of us here who knows how to hit the bullseye and to hit it right on all the time in our own strength. That of course is why we come to Jesus because the biblical confession is that there is only one person who has ever fully hit the bullseye all the time. His name is Jesus. And when you and I come to grips with the fact that we miss the target that we all have sinned, that Jesus alone is our righteousness, we put our faith in him, at that point in the sight of God we become righteous. That's why Bible says we can with boldness come into the presence of God because Jesus as our high priest has gone behind the curtain presenting his own blood before the throne of God. And so if you're a Christian, that in Christ you are as righteous as you will ever be, which is not to say that all of your actions will always represent that or that you will never fall into sin. As a matter of fact, John in his epistle tells us in 1 John chapter 2 verse 8, "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." Which is why he then goes on to say, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." What is the answer to sin? It's confession, the word confess means to agree with God. God says this is wrong, God says this attitude is wrong, God says this behavior is wrong, yes God you're right, I'm wrong, I own it. Now here's what I want us to understand, a lot of that confession can take place between you and God. In many of us we go into our closets, or we go to bed at night, or we get up in the morning, and we say, "Lord, I failed here, and I failed there. I was wrong in my attitude, I spoke hastily, I spoke unkindly, I let my eyes wander in places where they should have not wandered, I participated in conversations that I shouldn't have participated in, it is wrong, forgive me, cleanse me." And every time we do, God cleanses and restores. But you will have found, as I have, that there are certain sins, particularly what I would call besetting sins, things that return again and again and again, that don't leave after you confess them to the Lord like that. They hound you, they come back, they have a power over you that they ought not to have. And it's those kinds of sins of scripture that we need to confess to each other. And I can give you three reasons this morning why that is. The first, all sin, particularly besetting sin, separates us from God and His grace. Biblical picture of reality, as you know, is amazingly simple. God is life, He is the source of all life, and when there is nothing to hinder our relationship with God, from God's throne of life flows all the life we need. You want to see what that looks like? You look at Jesus, or you look at Adam and Eve in the garden before they sinned, or you look at the new heavens and the new earth, after all, sin has disappeared. We live in a fallen world, and because we live in a fallen world, sin gets in the way. Isaiah said many years ago, "The Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, or as you're dull that it cannot hear, but it is your sins that have made a separation between you and God." And so one of the very first questions then that we need to ask ourselves, particularly in times of ongoing stress and difficulty, is to ask ourselves the question, "Lord, is there a place where we have missed you, a place where I have sinned against you, or you're trying to speak your truth into my life?" I'll never forget many years ago, we had a young woman in our congregation. She was a mother of a couple of children, and she had gone to the doctor, and she came back with a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. The prospect was that in the near future, as the disease progressed, she would become crippled and bent over, unable to do her work and to manage her family. Understandably, that was a very painful diagnosis to receive, and so she gathered a number of us in the church together for prayer, according to the teaching of James chapter 5, and as we began to pray and ask the Lord what it was that he was trying to show us here, she began to confess instance after instance of unresolved bitterness and unforgiveness in her life. She was angry towards her parents. She had been badly hurt by, I think, a teacher, if I remember correctly, and this confession went on and on until we felt the garbage bin was cleared out, and it was then that the Lord gave us, in that instance, the prayer of faith, and we boldly interceded and prayed, "Lord God, lay your hand on this woman's life and make her whole," and it doesn't always happen that way, and it doesn't always happen that instantly, but it was one of those situations where God met her powerfully, drove back that rheumatoid arthritis, and for many, many years she lived in good health and strength, restored by the power of God. Doesn't mean every disease, I've said this often, is caused by direct or immediate sin. Certainly doesn't mean we ought to point fingers at each other and say, "Brother, you must be out of the will of God somewhere because you're ill," but it does mean that we ask the Lord the question, "Is there a place in my life that is blocking the flow of your grace? If so, please show it to me so we can take it to Jesus and receive his forgiveness." Sin separates us from God and from the blessings of God. More than that, sin defiles our conscience. I'm sure I can speak for all of us here that there have been moments in our lives where we have done things or said things or participated in things or experienced things that have left us deeply shamed. Isn't that true? Things that we wouldn't want anybody to know for all the world, things maybe that we kick ourselves for because how could we be so stupid? And our consciences have been defiled by our sin. I'll never forget one of my first convictions of sin, and some of you have heard me tell this story. I was only a little tyke, and I don't even know who the little girl was, but she and I get into a fight, and I took her rubber boot and I heaved it. And it so happened to land in a big tank of stinky water. I don't know how many of you know anything about the flax industry, but where I grew up in those days, we were heavily into flax growing, and for the linen to be separated from the stalk of the flax, it undergoes a process called retting. Ever hear that word? Well, you rep flax, I think that's how you describe it, by placing it in water. And essentially, it is a process of decomposing the stalk so the linen can be separated off. Well, that produces a mighty stench. And this was stinky water, and that's where her boot went. It was beyond redemption. It was beyond redemption. Well, I've always had a tender conscience, so I was immediately smitten, of course, and I ran for the hills to hide under the kitchen table because I knew I was in trouble. And I'll never forget my father's angry face when he came after me. See, I thought he couldn't see me under the table because I couldn't see him. I forgot that when he was further back, he had no trouble at all seeing me. For the first time in my life, I understood Adam and Eve in the garden, and why they hid, and why they put on fig leaves. Now, there are times when your conscience is defiled, you can just go to the Lord, and you can confess it, and you can receive cleansing and forgiveness, and that is a wonderful gift. But for all of us, there are those times and those moments where things have entered deeply into our souls, and we just can't seem to shake it. I had somebody come to me this morning, after the morning service, and say that every time the Lord takes her back to this instance of something that happened many years ago when she had been a single woman working in a particular location, and a man had been inappropriate in how he had approached her. And we all know what it's like to be in those situations where things don't quite go. And it's those kinds of defiled consciences, those places where we need to confess our sins to one another and pray for one another that we may be healed. A lot of you, too, know that story of a young woman who most of her adult life suffered from depression, and the reason she suffered from depression was that when she had been a little girl five years of age, her parents had told her to watch her three-year-old brother at the beach. And they had said to her, "Don't let him go out to the sand bank, because the tide will come in, he won't be able to get back to shore, and he will drown." And wouldn't you know it, sure enough, she was a little girl. She got preoccupied with playing around. The little boy wandered off to the sand bank, the tide came in, and sure enough, he drowned. Now imagine living with that guilt for the rest of your life. It drove her into depression. And in looking for answers to the depression, again and again, she had gone to counselors and they had all told her the same thing. You were little, your parents should have never put you in that situation. You need to forgive yourself and get on with your life, it really wasn't your fault. And she'd listen to them and she'd try to, you know, live life that way and then would promptly slide back into depression. Until one day she finally found a competent Christian counselor who for the first time agreed with her and said, "You're right, you are guilty. You did disobey your parents, and whether or not they should have left you in charge is irrelevant to the fact that you disobeyed them. You let your brother wander out there and you caused his death by your disobedience." That was a heavy load to bear. "But," said the counselor, "now that you know what guilt is and are owning and facing your guilt, now we've got a place where we can go with it." And he or she said to her, "Let's take it to Jesus and then Jesus could wash this all away." She walked out of that room, a changed woman. Confess your sins to one another, pray for one another that you may be healed. But somebody says, "I'm not going to hang out my dirty linen, I don't want anybody else to know what it is that, you know, I've done or participated in." Well, here's a third reason why especially you need to confess your sins to somebody else. Confession humbles our pride. One of the most effective evangelists in North America in the early 1800s was a man by the name of Charles Finney. Some of you may be familiar with him. He was a lawyer by occupation and by training, lived in New York State. God came after him. He was raised essentially in a non-Christian home and he was under heavy conviction of sin. And as he struggled with God, he was very worried about people knowing what his struggle was, and so he would wander off into the woods where he had to fight it out with God. And eventually he did and God powerfully met him, powerfully baptized him in the Holy Spirit and called him out of his law practice into ministry. And for many, many years he preached the good news. It's been said that as many as 500,000 people gave their lives to Christ because of his ministry. Well, in the early days of his ministry, as his story was spreading in his community, a number of other people discovered the same kind of freedom in the Lord by wandering into those woods. And those woods became almost a holy place where people could encounter God. Well, there was an acquaintance of his and I think his mentor or his boss or his business colleague, I'm not quite sure. He called him, he calls him Squire W in his autobiography, another lawyer who was also under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, but he said to himself, "I'll come to God on my terms. I am not going to the woods to cry like a baby over there like everybody else is. I will meet him in my living room." Now there's nothing wrong with meeting God in your living room, but when you tell God what are the conditions by which you're going to meet him, guess what happens? You don't get to meet him. He tried everything to get God to come across, spent a whole night in prayer fighting with God until finally he gave in, wandered into the woods, humbled his pride, cried out to God and God powerfully met him there. You say are the woods special? Is it easier to meet God over here than it is? Of course not. He can meet God anywhere, but the issue isn't the woods or his living room. The issue becomes one of pride. And I can tell you that if in your life or in my life there are certain things that we refuse to do when God is inviting us to do them or calls us to them, those will become a stumbling block to grace. And the one thing you most don't want to do, whether that's to come forward for prayer, share your needs with somebody else, allow your laundry to be hung out on the line, the one thing you don't want to do, you most need to do. Because it's not an issue of doing the deed, it is an issue of bending the knee before the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Do you understand what I'm saying? Another story very similar to that is told of a group of people that were on a ship. And the Holy Spirit was powerfully moving among people on the ship. And some people got up in the chair and they got overtaken by ecstasy and they were shouting to God and one man saw all of that happening, didn't like all that noise and whatever else very much. And he said to the people who was leading that particular revival, "Do I have to get up on that chair and shout like that?" And the leader was very discerning and he said, "In your case, yes, you do." Do you understand what I'm saying? You don't have to stand on a chair and shout to get saved or to get baptized by the Holy Spirit. But if you don't want to do it, then there's a pride issue in your life and God is going to put his finger on the pride issue because that becomes a question then of who's the boss in your life. That's where the changes take place. I mean, I'll never forget, in the early years of my own Christian life when I was going through what I call the dark night of the soul when God was not to be found anywhere and I wondered, "What in the world am I doing going into ministry?" I came to a point where I was so desperate. I didn't care who knew. And so I went to talk to a local pastor, shared my soul with him. Well, he's a great man, but he wasn't much help. I got my pen and paper out and I wrote a letter to Billy Graham. Well, Billy Graham is a wonderful man, but he wasn't much help either because all you get back is a form letter. I wrote somebody else, and for many, many months there was no answer until God in his wisdom put in my hands a formative book by Watchman, he called A Normal Christian Life, some of you will have read it, and there towards the end of the book in two pages he described exactly what I was going through. And it didn't solve my problem, but I knew then that I was neither going crazy nor losing God. God was simply walking me through a valley to teach me faith and a trust in Him, and that's all I needed to know that I could keep on going. Why do we need to confess our sins to each other? Because it humbles our pride. You know, does that mean we just willy-nilly, you know, indiscriminately hang our sins out for everybody to see? Of course not. That's not very healthy. Not everybody can handle our sin, nor should they hear our sin. But I can tell you that the Lord will raise up in the body of Christ those who are safe and mature and responsible, and who can hear our confession. Sometimes I think we Protestants can learn from the Roman Catholic tradition. I know that their confessional has often been misused, and us Protestants, we have often prided ourselves in the fact God and me, we can do it alone. But you know, we're going beyond Scripture, because Scripture says confess your sins to one another. Pray for one another, that you may be healed. So I leave you this morning with this. Are there places in your life where you're looking for more of God? Are there places where you feel you're not getting to where you need to get? Well, then take advantage of the ministry of grace that God has established in the Church. Ask the Lord to show you somebody safe that you can share your need with, somebody who can pray with you, somebody who can help you discern what it is that God is saying to you. Learn to lay the secrets of your heart bare before God and bare before other safe people. And you will discover amazingly that in the moment of your greatest vulnerability, in your moment of your greatest need, you discover the greatest outpouring of God's Holy Spirit. And then when you have experienced that in your own life, then purpose you will be that kind of man, that kind of woman for the people all around you. Because folks, we live in a world of incredible need. And don't for one moment think that we have the wisdom, the resources, the power, and the strength in and of ourselves to even begin to scratch the surface, but we have a Father who is in heaven, who has given all authority in heaven and on earth to Jesus. And our job as a royal priesthood is to march into the presence of God, take people by the hand and plead on the basis of Jesus, "God, pour out your life, pour out your grace, make it happen." And the promise of scripture is that as we do, He will act and the world will know that our God is the living God. [CUT] [PROPOSED CUT 1 START at 00:44:03.920; remove through 00:45:47.000] a blessing. [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [CUT] [PROPOSED CUT 1 END at 00:45:47.000; resume after this marked segment]