Inspired by This Heart-wrenching Plea...
Pray With Us. The Covid-Crisis in India
A prayer for them and us!
You are able, Lord
Bid our pleas avail
In the fervent prayer out-poured
Even when words fail
You behold the heart
And Undying Soul
While we witness but in part
You regard the whole
Lord, is that a tear
Gleaming on thy cheek
We who have ears let us hear
The message You speak
Forbid, on deaf lobes
Falls the mourner’s cry
While we gather up our robes
And quickly hasten by
We are family
Brothers, sisters, oh
Our Father Heavenly
Loves His children so
Lord, open our eyes
Help us feel today
Tugs upon familial ties
That move us to pray
Lest we stand aloof
Touch us with Your Sword
Let us be the living proof
Of Your love outpoured
You are able, Lord
By Your Mercy’s Pow’r
Let compassion breathe Your Word
Into suffering’s hour
Let us strive to be
Vessels in Your Hand
Poured in earnest charity
On a thirsting land
You are able, Lord
With or without man
Still, your will is faith restored
To fulfill Your plan
Thus, bid us to live
In obedience
As a humble servant give
Utter diligence
Lest, oh, awful thought
When we meet Death’s Yet
Our house of all we sought
You are able, Lord
Pray your church will prove
By the power through Your Word
To be stirred to love
Lest on some willow tree
Tormented by captivity
As we remember Zion
Amen
© Janet Martin
James 5
(I went to this chapter to share verse 16
but the whole chapter seems timely and fitting)
Rich Oppressors Will Be Judged
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you!
2 Your riches [a]are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you
and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.
4 Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of [b]Sabaoth.
5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and [c]luxury;
6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
Be Patient and Persevering
7 Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord.
See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth,
waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain.
8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord [f]is at hand.
Behold, the Judge is standing at the door!
10 My brethren, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord,
as an example of suffering and patience.
11 Indeed we count them blessed who endure.
You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord—
that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.
But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath.
But let your “Yes” be “Yes,” and your “No,” “No,” lest you fall into [i]judgment.
Meeting Specific Needs
13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms.
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up.
And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
16 [j]Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
The effective, [k]fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
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.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
Bring Back the Erring One
19 Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,
20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way
will save [l]a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.
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