Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. -James 5:16


Good morning and God bless you. The scripture above is often quoted in part. I.g. The effectual...” The part left off helps to bring clarity to the overall thought James is expressing. 


 

What is effective prayer? Whose prayers are effective? Verse 16 comes after James has listed some Christian responsibility. Humility, consideration, honesty, hard work, loyalty and faith are a few of the things leading up to verse 16. 


The previous list are attributes of the righteous and it is our responsibility to represent Christ in our righteousness. 


A gift of righteous standing is answered prayers. So by that we often see people pray with fervency but to no avail. 


Fervent means passion and further frequency. A prayer repeated but without righteous standing is as “sounding brass”, akin to repent-less faith. 



God answers faith before fervency; as it is not an indication of righteousness. Faith is shown when you exhibit the fruit of it to God and others. 


So for prayer to be effective it first has to come from one in righteous stand and added almost as an afterthought in importance; it has to be fervent. 


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God bless and command your day!!! 

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