There’s not much apparent power in the lives of believers
today, in fact, as Chaplain Bob would say, “most Christians don’t have enough
power to blow the fuzz off of a peach.”
James 5:16
(KJV)
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.
We need the healing of our pride to fess up with our
faults.
(AMP)
Confess to one
another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses,
your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored
[to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued)
prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its
working].
It is said that King David was a man after God’s own heart,
so what happened after he sent an innocent man to the front lines to be killed
so as to cover up David’s affair with the man’s wife? David was confronted by
the prophet who said that “David” was the man!”
Did David cover-up his sin after being called out on the
carpet? No, David repents and cries,
Psalm 51:4
(KJV)
Against You, You only, have I
sinned and done that which is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified in
Your sentence and faultless in Your judgment . . . Create in me a clean
heart O God, and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.”
Test the waters. Find a friend to confide in. Don’t cast
your pearls before swine, not everybody can be trusted. There are wolves in
sheep’s clothing. Ask for wisdom, and God will not only show you who to talk
with, but also just how much to reveal.
James 1:5-8
(KJV)
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let
him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it
shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing
wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind
and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that
he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable
in all his ways.
When we let our defenses down and fess up with one another,
and pray, it makes tremendous power available (dunamis in the Greek) a dynamic dynamo that generates awesome
power! Power to trample on any obstacle the devil can muster!
It’ll take some hide off of us, as the disciples found out
the night Jesus was betrayed. Eleven of them finally got it, that discipleship
means more than being right all the time:
Matthew 26:22
(KJV)
And they were exceeding sorrowful,
and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
This is where the rubber meets the
road, when we stop The Blame Game and
fess up our faults!
Galatians 6:3-5
(KJV)
3 For if a man think himself to be
something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
4 But let every man prove his own
work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
5 For every man shall bear his own
burden.
There is safety in being honest
with one another. If you don’t have anyone you can trust, email me at classicdevotionals@gmail.com –
all correspondence will be in held the strictest confidence and respect. Test
the waters!
References:
Amplified Bible (AMP)—Copyright ©
1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
King James Version (KJV)—Public
Domain/ 1604, King James I of England
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