James 5:16
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective
If a factory makes toys we call it a toy factory. If a factory makes breads we call it a bread factory.
A product reflects the character of the factory that makes it. It is a very simple fact that if a toy factory begins to make breads the toy factory will be no longer called the toy factory; it will be called the bread factory.
The church of Jesus Christ is God’s factory on earth! The product of the church is righteous men and women – Christians! The primary work of the church is not to acquire members, nor to increase finance, nor to do charitable works, but to produce the righteousness of the inward character and the purity of the outward life of sinners.
At the factory, a toy or bread is produced when raw materials are labored by workers. At the church righteous man and woman are produced when sinners are prayed for by intercessors because through the prayers of the intercessors God touches the hearts and minds of sinners.
Apostle Paul says in Ephesians 5:22-24, “You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
The transformation of heart and life of a sinner takes place in the church by prayer!
The prayer of a righteous man and woman is powerful and effective! However, in order to have a powerful and effective prayer the one who prays first has to be righteous!
Apostle Paul says in Romans 3:22, “This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.” God is the one who gives us the righteousness, so we pray to God for each other in the name of Jesus Christ so that the righteousness from God comes to each other.
