What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your
pleasures that wage war in your members? You lust and do not have; so you commit
murder.  You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel.


ASK!

You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask
with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. You adulteresses,
do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God?
Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: "He jealously desires the Spirit
which He has made to dwell in us"? 

He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace
to the humble." Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify
your hearts, youdouble-minded. Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be
turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord,
and He will exalt you.

Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges
his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are
not a doer of the law but a judge of it. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who
is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor? Come now,
you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year
there and engage in business and make a profit." Yet you do not know what your life will
be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that."
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. 

Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.


JAMES Chapter 5

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.
Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and your
silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh
like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure! Behold, the pay of the
laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against
you and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of
Sabaoth. You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure;
you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

You have condemned and put to death the righteous man he does not resist you.
Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious
produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains. You too be
patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near. Do not complain, brethren,
against one another, so that you  yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is
standing right at the door. 

As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name
of the Lord. We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job
and have seen the outcome of the Lord's dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is
merciful. But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any
other oath; but your yes is to be yes, and your no, no, so that you may not fall under judgment.


CALL SOMEONE if YOU are SICK
Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises.
Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray
over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer offered in faith will
restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they
will be forgiven him. Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so
that you may be healed.



PRAYER is POWERFUL!!
The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. 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 earth for 3 years
and 6 months. Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.

My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back, let him know
that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death
and will cover a multitude of sins.





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