But let him ask in faith, doubting not: for he that doubts, is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind, and tossed.

For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man that looks at his natural face in a mirror:

Elijah was a man with passions like our own; and he earnestly prayed that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.