"Therefore, 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. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit."
God heals, so confess and pray. God has great power--greater than I realize. Here it is said that our prayers can also have great power. Of course this power is not our own; it is God's power. But we can play a part in it. For a demonstration of the power of God seen in prayer, we are directed to Elijah. He was no different from people today, and his prayer held off the rain for three and a half years. The idea that my prayers could yield that kind of power is mentally accepted by me, but practically speaking. it is a foreign concept. Yet this passage asserts that it is so. Prayer is powerful not only in theory but in reality. The power of prayer should indicate to me that it is important. Why would I neglect such a thing?
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