The Prayer of Faith

The Prayer of Faith

1 Kings 18:41-46

JAMES 5:16 (NIV)
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.

1 PETER 3:7 (NLT) 
In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God's gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.

JAMES 5:16 (NIV) 
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.

JAMES 5:17a (NIV) 
Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly

1st The prayer of faith is linked to obedience

1 KINGS 18:1-2a (ESV)
After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth." So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab.

HEBREWS 11:8 (NIV-84) 
By faith, Abraham when called to go a place he would later receive as his inheritance obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.

2nd The prayer of faith is based on hearing the inaudible

1 KINGS 18:41 (NLT) 
Then Elijah said to Ahab, "Go get something to eat and drink, for I hear a mighty rainstorm coming!"

3rd The prayer of faith accomplishes the impossible

1 KINGS 18:42 (NIV) 
So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.

1 KINGS 18:43 (NIV) 
"Go and look toward the sea," he told his servant. And he went up and looked. "There is nothing there," he said. Seven times Elijah said, "Go back."

1 KINGS 18:44 (NIV) 
The seventh time the servant reported, "A cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea." So Elijah said, "Go and tell Ahab, 'Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.'"

1 KINGS 18:45 (NIV) 
Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain came on and Ahab rode off to Jezreel.

JAMES 5:17a (NIV) 
Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly

JAMES 5:17 (ESV) 
he prayed fervently

JAMES 5:17 (MSG)
Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard

JAMES 5:17-18 (NIV) 
Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.

JAMES 5:16 (NIV)
The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.