Tag: What the Bible says about listening to others

James 5:16 (NKJV) 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Are we able to do this today? Are we able to let people share the things they are going through with us, without us running and telling everyone about their issues and problems?

We need to understand that when people open up to us, and they tell us about things that they are dealing with, it is not our business to take it anywhere else but to the Lord in prayer.

This is not easy for some people to do. The first thing they want to do is go and tell so and so. How can we learn to keep it safe and only go to God with it?

We have to understand the responsibility of what we are being entrusted with, and the importance of what is taking place.

If God opens the door for us to help someone get through something, it is an honor and privilege to be a servant to the Lord, and to that person who is opening up their heart and confessing.

This is not given to us for gossip material. This is a time to HELP someone. To be a blessing to them. To lift them and their situation up. To watch from a distance, praying for the answer of God to come in and be mighty in their time of need or desperation.

They are trusting us with their innermost secret or dilemma. And we need to be trustworthy, while also being fervent in prayer.

Understanding that this is an honor, and the importance of being silent and keeping it just between them, us and God, is the heart of a righteous man. The efforts and the prayers of this kind of person will avail much and will see the answers, the change and the victory come to pass! Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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