Extraordinary in Ordinary

21 July 2007 – Extraordinary in Ordinary

James 5:16-17

The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years!

We could find no difficulty in believing that we are ordinary people in this world, we are as ordinary as others, we are the same. What makes us different is that we trusted in an Extraordinary God!

Today, I would like to share about prayers. Friends, do you trust in the power of prayer? Perhaps the answer varies, but for me, prayer has a great power, and I have experienced it before! Some of you might say, “it is no use in praying so much, so far nothing that I prayed happened. God is not listening!” Is it true that this statement say what it belongs? CERTAINLY NOT!

God is hearing everything we said, seeing everything we do, reading everything we think. If you encounter with some experiences like above, the major problem is not always on God’s side, it is on our own.

(1) Did we pray earnestly? Or you just pray once and make this judgment?

(2) Did you really believe on what you asking? If you ask in an attitude of testing, then the power is not there!

James told us that, the power of the prayer of the earnest prayer of a righteous person is GREAT and produces WONDERFUL results. (James 5:6) Friends, did you heard of the story of Elijah before?

1 Kings 17:1
[ Elijah Fed by Ravens ] Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, “As surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives—the God I serve—there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!”

Elijah was the same like us, he is a human, an ordinary people! But he trusted an extraordinary God! He prayed earnestly for the rain to stop, then it stops! Yes, you can, too! You are no different than Elijah!

Franco