James 5:16

The Effective Prayer Of Faith

¹⁵ The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will restore him to health; if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. ¹⁶ Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.

Good Man

Pray for

Pray for One Another

Prayer of a Righteous Man

Righteous Man

Righteous One

Sin

Genesis 20:17

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves so that they could bear children,

Psalm 34:15

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and His ears are open to their cry for help.

Numbers 11:2

Then the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down.

John 9:31

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.

Genesis 18:23-32

Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

1 Kings 13:6

Then the king responded to the man of God, “Plead for the favor of the Lord your God and pray for me so that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God pleaded for the favor of the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him and became as it had been at first.

2 Kings 19:15-20

Then Hezekiah prayed before the Lord:

Lord God of Israel who is enthroned above the cherubim, You are God—You alone—of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

2 Kings 20:2-5

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,

Job 42:8

Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you. I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has.”

Psalm 10:17-18

Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;
You will strengthen their hearts.
You will listen carefully,

Proverbs 15:29

The Lord is far from the wicked,
but He hears the prayer of the righteous.

Matthew 3:6

and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

Luke 11:11-13

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

Acts 19:18

And many who had become believers came confessing and disclosing their practices,

Romans 3:10

as it is written:

There is no one righteous, not even one.

1 John 3:22

and can receive whatever we ask from Him because we keep His commands and do what is pleasing in His sight.

Genesis 19:29

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when He demolished the cities where Lot had lived.

Genesis 20:7

Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you will certainly die, you and all who are yours.”

Genesis 32:28

“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” He said. “It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Genesis 41:9-10

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I remember my faults.

Exodus 9:28-29

Make an appeal to Yahweh. There has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don’t need to stay any longer.”

Exodus 9:33

Moses went out from Pharaoh and the city, and extended his hands to the Lord. Then the thunder and hail ceased, and rain no longer poured down on the land.

Exodus 17:11

While Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, but whenever he put his hand down, Amalek prevailed.

Exodus 32:10-14

Now leave Me alone, so that My anger can burn against them and I can destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

Numbers 14:13-20

But Moses replied to the Lord, “The Egyptians will hear about it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from them.

Numbers 21:7-9

The people then came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. Intercede with the Lord so that He will take the snakes away from us.” And Moses interceded for the people.

Deuteronomy 9:18-20

Then I fell down like the first time in the presence of the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights; I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and provoking Him to anger.

Joshua 10:12

On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the Lord in the presence of Israel:

“Sun, stand still over Gibeon,
and moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”

1 Samuel 12:18

Samuel called on the Lord, and on that day the Lord sent thunder and rain. As a result, all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

2 Samuel 19:19

and said to him, “My lord, don’t hold me guilty, and don’t remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.

1 Kings 17:18-24

She said to Elijah, “Man of God, what do we have in common? Have you come to remind me of my guilt and to kill my son?”

2 Kings 4:33-35

So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 14:11-12

Then Asa cried out to the Lord his God: “Lord, there is no one besides You to help the mighty and those without strength. Help us, Lord our God, for we depend on You, and in Your name we have come against this large army. Yahweh, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal hinder You.”

2 Chronicles 30:20

So the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

2 Chronicles 32:20-22

King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed about this and cried out to heaven,

Psalm 145:18-19

The Lord is near all who call out to Him,
all who call out to Him with integrity.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the Lord,
but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Proverbs 28:9

Anyone who turns his ear away from hearing the law—
even his prayer is detestable.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My compassions would not reach out to these people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.

Jeremiah 29:12-13

You will call to Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Jeremiah 33:3

Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.

Daniel 2:18-23

urging them to ask the God of heaven for mercy concerning this mystery, so Daniel and his friends would not be killed with the rest of Babylon’s wise men.

Daniel 9:20-22

While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before Yahweh my God concerning the holy mountain of my God—

Hosea 12:3-4

In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel,
and as an adult he wrestled with God.

Matthew 7:7-11

“Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

Matthew 18:15-17

“If your brother sins against you, go and rebuke him in private. If he listens to you, you have won your brother.

Matthew 21:22

And if you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Luke 7:3-4

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to Him, requesting Him to come and save the life of his slave.

Luke 9:6

So they went out and traveled from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing everywhere.

Luke 18:1-8

He then told them a parable on the need for them to pray always and not become discouraged:

Acts 4:24-31

When they heard this, they all raised their voices to God and said, “Master, You are the One who made the heaven, the earth, and the sea, and everything in them.

Acts 10:38

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were under the tyranny of the Devil, because God was with Him.

Acts 12:5-11

So Peter was kept in prison, but prayer was being made earnestly to God for him by the church.

Romans 5:19

For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

Colossians 1:9

For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

1 Thessalonians 5:17

Pray constantly.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely. And may your spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:25

Brothers, pray for us also.

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Hebrews 12:13

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed instead.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us; for we are convinced that we have a clear conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves honorably in everything.

1 Peter 2:24

He Himself bore our sins
in His body on the tree,
so that, having died to sins,
we might live for righteousness;
you have been healed by His wounds.