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Faith that Works

Faith Turns Prayer into Power

Scripture: James 5:13-20 Faith prays persistently “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…

Faith Turns Uncertainty into Expectancy

Scripture: James 5:7-12 Faith watches with patience “Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. . . . establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.” (v7-8) “. . . stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the…

Faith Turns Self-Reliance into Surrender

Scripture: James 4:13–5:6 Faith surrenders our plans “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make profit’– yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring.” (James 4:13-17) “the land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought…

Faith Turns Worldliness into Worship

Scripture: James 4:1-12 Faith exposes worldly passions “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?” (v1) “the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ . . Not many days later the…

Stick Out Your Tongue

Scripture: James 3:1-12 I. You need to control your tongue because it is powerful. A. True faith in Jesus must produce good works (James 2:17). Some Christians use their tongues to do the good work of teaching the people in the church (vs. 1). But God will judge teachers strictly because teachers can either do great…

Faith Turns Profession into Proof

Scripture: James 2:14-26 Faith is powerless when it professes alone “faith by itself, if it does not have works is dead” (v17) “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going…

Faith Turns Favoritism into Mercy

Scripture: James 2:1-13 Faith refuses to play favorites “My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.” (v1) “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. . . and…

Faith Turns Listening into Living

Scripture: James 1:19-27 Faith listens to the word “Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger” (v19) “He who has ears, let him hear. . .  When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what…