13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. 14 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. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 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. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit. (James 5)
We live in the day of multiplied superheroes. Many times a year a new one appears on the big screen. They come in all shapes and sizes with various imaginative and powerful abilities. Then there are the rest of us. But wait! James tells us about this man called Elijah who is just like us, yet did great things, whom we can be like. How? Praying fervently, righteously, humbly in community with others. He showed signs of weakness, admitted his fears, and even became tired; yet, he took on evil and corruption in powerful places, seen and unseen, and won. His superpower was not his own, but the Lord's. That same power is available when we pray today. Go be that superhero.
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