Let's All Pray!

Pastor Johnny Willis

Pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. --James 5:16

When we pray for others, we become partners with God in His work of salvation, healing, comfort, and justice. God can accomplish those things without us, but in His plan He gives us the privilege of being involved with Him through prayer.

When we intercede for a grandson in trouble, a mother having surgery, a neighbor who needs Christ, or a pastor who needs strength, we are asking God to provide for that person what we can't provide. We are acting as go-betweens, asking God to direct His power in a specific direction.

When I was just a teenager growing up in North East Georgia my Pastor who mentored me and took so much interest in my life had a statement concerning prayer: "Sometimes you have to pray until you pray through!" I understand what he was saying now after so many years. Sometimes I allow circumstances and situations hinder my faith and I have to pray until I have emptied all of that out of my life. Then prayer that avails much brings the breakthrough that I need in my life.

This assumes, of course, that we are praying "according to [God's] will" (1 John 5:14). Prayer is not a magic wand for satisfying our own wishes, but it's an opportunity to work with the Lord in accomplishing His purposes.

James told us that "the effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much" (James 5:16). So let's humbly and earnestly pray for one another.

God Bless!!!

Pastor Johnny Willis