If any of you is in trouble let him pray. If anyone is flourishing let him sing praises to God. If anyone is ill he should send for the church elders. They should pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Lord's name. You should get into the habit of admitting your sins to each other, and praying for each other, so that you may be healed.
Tremendous power is available through a good man's earnest prayer.
A good man's prayer is powerful and effective. And if, dear friends of mine, our conscience no longer accuses us, we may have the utmost confidence in God's presence. We receive whatever we ask for, because we are obeying his orders and following his wishes. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God. Two men went up to the temple to pray, one was a Pharisee, the other was a tax-collector.