Prayer of Faith

Haley is sick today so I used my Bible's concordance to find a passage about sickness for her to read and this is what I found:

James 5:13-20

¹³Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. ¹⁴Is anyone among you sick? 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. ¹⁵And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. ¹⁶Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. ¹⁷Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. ¹⁸ Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.

¹⁹My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, ²⁰let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

I feel like everything in this passage is important for us to remember in our work here in Jamaica and at home. We need to express how we are: suffering, cheerfulness, sickness. I find it really interesting how forgiveness of sins and healing go hand in hand. Also that confessing sins comes before ministering to people who have wandered from the faith. That is the part I think is so important in Jamaica. We need to be super aware of our spiritual position before we go out in the streets.