Today's Bible Verse:
James 5:16Therefore, 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. (ESV)
Today's Inspiring Thought: Confession and Powerful Prayers
These words remind us that as long as we're still living on this earth, we will continue to sin. Sometimes we sin against our brothers and sisters in Christ. I found this commentary in Opening up James by Roger Ellsworth to be very interesting:"Confession should always be as wide as the sin. If we have sinned secretly, we should confess it to God. If we have sinned against someone else, we should confess it to God and to the person whom we have wronged. And if we have sinned publicly, we should confess it to God and in public.
"Furthermore, if a fellow-believer comes to us to confess that he or she has sinned against us, we must always be willing to grant forgiveness. Only in this way can we be ‘healed’ or reconciled. We cannot leave this portion of James’s letter without noting the profound emphasis he puts on prayer ... No matter what life brings our way, let’s make sure we do not forget to pray. And let’s make sure that our praying is not merely mouthing words, but an earnest seeking after God. Only then do we truly pray, and only then do we experience our own great things."
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