When we pray?

In James 5: 16 - 18 it says, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." What kind of results are we having when we pray?

Forgiven

The song goes like this, "have you learned to forgive, to just let it go, no looking back and then you won't move so slow, just give it to the one who has saved your soul and you'll learn to forgive my friend." This is a nice chorus that the Lord gave me many years ago, but it is absolutely worthless if you and I don't forgive. How long has it been since the Holy Spirit has reminded us of the importance of forgiveness? Is there that one person or one situation that is eating at us? Let me exhort us all that Jesus said, if we don't forgive, we will not be forgiven.

What are we sowing?

Galatians 6:7 says, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." The annual excitement is in the air or maybe I should say in the dirt. People are planting their vegetable and flower gardens in hopes of a bountiful harvest, and it is exciting to see the fruits of our labor. If we sow carrot seed we will reap carrots. If we sow squash seed we will reap squash. This is so easy to see in nature and yet mankind has the hardest time understanding spiritual sowing and reaping. Scripture tells us, that if we sow sin we will reap death, when it says that the wages of sin is death, it means if you sin you reap death. Yet Christians continue to sow sin. The Church in this current hour is sowing seed and much of it is going to reap death. In many churches playing in far more important than prayer.In churches across our land many Pastors are afraid to mention sin for fear of losing people who have only come to have their ears tickled with upbeat and positive talks that are at best only encouraging good works, the most of which are not born of the Spirit but of the flesh. The call to our lives is to go make disciples, and to love God with everything we have and are, and to love our neighbor the same way we love ourselves. Let's get to sowing.