21/10/2023
*KINGDOM RHEMA WORD*
*By Apostle Wesley*
*Email: [email protected]*
*Saturday 21st October*
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*TOPIC: THE NEED FOR PRAYING ELDERS!*
*TEXT: James 5:14*
*Is any sick among you? 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:*
*NOTE*
If you carefully read the text above, you will discover and agree with me that sicknesses and diseases are not common experiences among believers in the early church days. It was a big surprise in the church then to see anyone complaining of sickness because they live in the reality that Christ has bare all our sicknesses and nailed them to His cross.
Isaiah 53:4
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But today, the church is almost loosing their grip of the reality of healthy life of no sickness that our ancestors lift for us because we tend to believe more on science than the Great One who took away our sins and infirmities. I pray we come back to the consciousness of what God has made provision for in our lives.... Good health and prosperity...
The word 'IF' in our text indicates that it's not our custom or culture to be sick but should in case anyone is sick, let him call for the praying elders in the church and let them pray over him...... What an advice from James the half brother of our Lord Jesus Christ. "Call for elders to pray over the sick fellow"
The elders are not there to prescribe drugs for the sick brother or even search for the nearby hospital where they will carry the sick fellow to. "Let them pray over the sick was the admonition given to the elders.
How we long to see men and women who will sit in the office of PRAYING ELDERS to trapped down God's healing power for the sick ones in the church today ....
Acts 28:8
And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
We need more praying elders in the body of Christ who with the power of God in their lives can bring healing to sicknesses and cure to a deadly bloody flux just like Elijah will bring cure to Naaman's leprosy. We seek for elders who will bring deliverance to the oppressed and life to the dying ones just like Apostle Paul will being healing and life to the father Publius.
To become an elder with power bringing solutions to man's problem, you must have a track record of a personal prayer relationship with Jesus and secondly, you must have basics knowledge of redemption Christ procured for us through His substitutionary life on the cross for us.
Galatians 3:13-14
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
14. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
May God make you an elder of power bringing solutions to humans pains and struggles in Jesus name.... Praying elders are needed in our days!
God bless you.
*PRAYER LIFT*
* Father, sickness is not part of your redemption package for me, therefore I refuse to be sick from today in Jesus name
* Make me a praying elder full of power bringing solutions to human problems in Jesus name
*ROYAL DECLARATION*
Whatever Jesus took away from you shall no long manifest in your body again forever in Jesus Mighty Name...
*SHOUT YOUR LOUDEST AMENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN*