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Peace and grace in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

James 5:16-18
5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
5:17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.
5:18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

The prayer which can be acceptable to God or answered by Him is like the one of Elijah's.

The requirements are as follows:

  1. It is lifted up by a righteous man.
    James 5:16
    5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

    Since Adam and Eve sinned in garden Eden and were driven out to enter the world, all men in the world have sinned and no one is righteous. The sin separates us from God, so the prayer is not answered by Him.

    We must be a righteous man through confessing and praying for one another so that our prayer can be answered by God. We confess our sin to God and other people and after being forgiven, we do not repeat the sin. We must also forgive and forget the sins of others.

    Then, the blood of Jesus erases all of our sins.
    The results are as follows:

    • We are justified and live in righteousness.
    • We feel peaceful. Our heart is not accused. We do neither accuse, judge, nor blame at others. We also do not use the self-truth.

    It is the same as repairing the altar which has been broken down, so our prayer can be answered by God.

    1 Kings 18:30
    18:30 Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me." So all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.

    Be careful! Keeping the sins and self-truth is the same as breaking down the altar, so the prayer is not answered by God.

  2. It is lifted up fervently and earnestly.
    James 5:16-17
    5:16 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, ferventprayer of a righteous man avails much.
    5:17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed
    earnestlythat it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months


    • The fervent prayer means that the Word has been faith in heart.
      John 15:7
      15:7 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.

      We pray without any doubts to God. We only believe and hope God.

      1 Kings 18:21
      18:21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, "How long will you falter between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people answered him not a word.

      1 Kings 18:41
      18:41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain."

      Our ears keep on hearing the Word and we keep on believing it although our eyes have not seen the help of God.

      Romans 4:19-21
      4:19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
      4:20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
      4:21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.


      Foe example, Abraham kept on believing the promise of God or His Word although his eyes saw the impossible matter.
      God is able to fulfill His promise more than what we can think or do.

    • Praying earnestly means that we pray in perseverance.
      1 Kings 18:42-44
      18:42 So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees,
      18:43 and said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." So he went up and looked, and said, "There is nothing." And seven times he said, "Go again."
      18:44 Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, "There is a cloud, as small as a man's hand, rising out of the sea!" So he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.'"

      When the prayer has not been answered by God, we are experiencing the test of perseverance until it becomes perfect (seven times) and we can bow down on the ground. It means humbling our life as low as possible and confessing that we are only the clay. We confess our many weaknesses and powerlessness or we can do nothing. We only hope the great grace or mercy of God.

  3. Crying out the powerful name of Jesus.
    1 Kings 18:36-39
    18:36 And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, "LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word.
    18:37 "Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that You are the LORD God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again."
    18:38 Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench.
    18:39 Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, "The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!"


    We only cry out, surrender, and stretch out our hands to God.
    There will be a cloud, as small as a man's hand for sure. It refers to the stretching out of the great merciful hands of God that help us who are small and powerless.

    The results are as follows:


    • The merciful hands of God are able to do all things we can neither think nor do.
    • The merciful hands of God are able to create something that does not exist yet and preserve our life in the world up to the time when the Antichrist reigns over the world for three and a half years.

    • The merciful hands of God are able to make impossible things possible. God is able to help us in the twinkling of an eye.
      1 Kings 18:45
      18:45 Now it happened in the meantimethat the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.

      He can also change our life to be as perfect as He is in the twinkling of an eye.

      1 Corinthians 15:52
      15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

      Do not be hopeless whatever weaknesses you have. The important thing is trying and asking God to change our life until we are changed to be as perfect as Jesus is. We can welcome Jesus' second coming on the glorious clouds.

God blesses you.

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  • General Service in Malang, September 27, 2020 (Sunday Morning)
    ... the presence of the Antichrist who reigns over the world for three and a half years. After that she will be lifted up on the glorious clouds for meeting Jesus who comes a second time in the glory as the King and Heavenly Bridegroom. We enter the One-Thousand-Year Kingdom of ...
  • Prayer Service in Malang, May 27, 2021 (Thursday Evening)
    ... to who is the Antichrist Genesis And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being. The man is formed by God from the dust of the ground. It is the body flesh the ...
  • Prayer Service in Malang, March 25, 2014 (Tuesday Evening)
    ... lampstands that are shining . The duties of church of God as the shining lampstands are testifying and inviting. Acts But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ...
  • Prayer Service in Malang, January 10, 2023 (Tuesday Evening)
    ... of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon . which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying . From the thirteenth year ...
  • Prayer Service in Malang, August 14, 2012 (Tuesday Evening)
    ... thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. Darkness for three hours when Jesus is crucified. Matthew Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land. Darkness for three years and half on the earth on the days of antichrist s reigning ...
  • Youth Service in Malang, October 07, 2017 (Saturday Evening)
    ... purification word will make us become the descendants of the killer namely with hatred and bitterness et cetera. No matter the reason is if we have hatred we will become the descendants of the killer. There are three places that are hit by hatred as follows The world. John - . If the ...
  • Youth Service in Malang, June 17, 2017 (Saturday Evening)
    ... and the morning star rises in your hearts . The lamp refers to the prophetic or true teaching Word that illuminates the dark heart so it can shine starting from the light of the lamp in the house the light of the star before men up to becoming the light of ...
  • General Service in Malang, February 06, 2022 (Sunday Morning)
    ... us and not to the world His weakness was the heart or feeling which was often doubtful so he asked many questions to God. The doubt is towards Jesus or the true teaching Word in facing the false teachings. The doubt is also towards the power of Jesus in facing the ...
  • Fellowship in Ambon III, August 25, 2010 (Wednesday Evening)
    ... term freely means a pastor preaching the Word without the anointing of Holy Spirit or the freedom of Holy Spirit so there is limitation in time men's rule the condition of congregation et cetera. The congregation will be bound still by the sins if the pastor is deaf. Genesis . but of ...
  • Bible Study Service in Malang, May 04, 2021 (Tuesday Evening)
    ... scroll And to open its seals For You were slain And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation We are redeemed by the blood of Jesus out of every nation tribe people and tongue or language until we can ...

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