JAMES 5:16-18 MSG Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't--not a drop for three and a half years. Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.

Living together whole and healed has something to do with being able to be ourselves around others, to have our hearts on the table and feel safe about it. What do you think about speaking the truth of where you're at and what's in your heart in a space where others can hear you out, hold you accountable, and know who you really are? What do you think about rooting your relationships in living right with God, who makes your prayers work both in the praying and in the answering? A SMALL GROUP can surround you with support, keep you focused, and launch you into what God has for you, all while you are part of the same experience for others!

It's hard to say why Elijah's prayers about rain got such awesome results when sometimes our prayers seem like talking to a wall. Part of what's going on here might be the "living right with God" requirement for prayer power. Jesus makes it possible for us to be in God's presence no matter what our day-to-day living looks like, and that's a lifetime guarantee. But STAYING in God's presence instead of dropping in and out like a bad cell phone connection is a harder bar to reach. For that type of steadiness, we need teammates who are committed to the new lifestyle that the Holy Spirit wants to establish in us. Let God place you in a team, then watch what happens with your prayers!

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