Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair.

Have you ever prayed for something to happen and it didn't?

Maybe you really wanted a job or a spouse or healing from an illness and you cried out to the Lord and it just seems like he didn't answer.

Or maybe he did and the answer was no. See I'm sure we've all been in that situation, praying and not getting the answer we asked for, or not getting an answer at all. It can be disheartening and frustrating.

In those times, I've actually had people tell me that I just

didn't have enough faith that God would do what I was asking, that I didn't believe

enough that he could provide what I was asking for.

And statements like that can make facing silence even harder.

Was it my fault?

Did I not have enough faith? If I just believed a little more would God deliver me?

See those questions and that line of thinking can be incredibly damaging,

but it's hard not to let our minds wander there, especially when we read

sections of scripture like we will today in James 5. Let's start reading in

verse 13. Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him

sing praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church and

let them pray over him,

anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the

one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has has committed sins he will be forgiven.

Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another

that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours and he prayed fervently that it might not rain,

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