Sometime we need others to pray for us | Rapp Report Daily 0129 | Striving for Eternity

Welcome to The Rapid Pull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications. This is a ministry of striving for eternity.

The Need to Gather with Believers When Spiritually Weak

There are times when people just do not feel like going to church even. Maybe it's a sin in their life. Maybe it's because being overworked and stressed out. But the reality is, there are times that you may not feel like being in church and singing songs of praise to God or listening to the proclamation of His word.

And I can tell you that what we must do is even force ourselves to go. There are times when you must, out of duty, go and serve. Why? Because it is through serving God, sometimes, that He will bring you to a point where you can be in awe of how great He is.

James 5 and the Need for Others to Pray

And that will be the thing that carries you through. In James 5, it says that if there's someone who's weak, I know some translations say sick, but the idea is weak. When there's times when we can be so spiritually depressed that we are so weak that we need to call the elders or people who are more spiritual than us to pray for us.

And there are times, just listening to the prayers of someone who is, at that moment in time, being more spiritual than you, praying for you, because you can't even utter prayers. That's what that text, I believe, is speaking of, is going and dealing with the fact that we could be so spiritually depressed we need others to pray for us.

Physical Sickness, Healing Oil, and the Importance of the Church

And there's times in that passage where it says we could be even physically sick and we need oil for healing. But the thing is, there are times we need others. And to avoid the gathering of the believers is to avoid the very thing you might need for your own healing.

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