WALKING IN WISDOM - James the Camel Knees // Sunday, November 9, 2025 // Jeff Hines, Lead Pastor
/Sunday, October 26, 2025
Real People Living in the Real World Loving the Real God
James the Camel Knees
James 5: 13 – 18 (NLT)
Are any of you suffering hardships? You should pray. Are any of you happy? You should sing praises. 14 Are any of you sick? You should call for the elders of the church to come and pray over you, anointing you with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 Such a prayer offered in faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make you well. And if you have committed any sins, you will be forgiven. 16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. 17 Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years! 18 Then, when he prayed again, the sky sent down rain and the earth began to yield its crops.
When should you pray?
1. When you are hurting emotionally.
v. 13 Are any of you suffering hardships? You should pray…
Kakopatheo:
To suffer misfortune.
To be in distress.
To be under pressure.
To be under tension.
v. 13 …Are any of you happy? You should sing praises.
2. When you are hurting physically.
vv. 14 & 15 Are any of you sick? You should call for the elders of the church to come and pray over you, anointing you with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 Such a prayer offered in faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make you well. And if you have committed any sins, you will be forgiven.
A. Types of sicknes:
1) Sickness of death.
1 John 5: 16 (NLT)
If you see a fellow believer sinning in a way that does not lead to death,
you should pray, and God will give that person life. But there is a sin that leads to death, and I am not saying you should pray for those who commit it.
John 11: 4 (NLT)
…when Jesus heard about it he said, “Lazarus’s sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this.”
2) Sickness of discipline.
1 Corinthians 11: 27 – 31 (NLT)
…anyone who eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord unworthily is guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28 That is why you should examine yourself before eating the bread and drinking the cup. 29 For if you eat the bread or drink the cup without honoring the body of Christ, you are eating and drinking God’s judgment upon yourself. 30 That is why many of you are weak and sick and some have even died. 31 But if we would examine ourselves, we would not be judged by God in this way.
3) Sickness for God’s glory.
John 9: 1 - 3 (NLT)
As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
2 “Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?”
3 “It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him.
B. Attitudes toward healing:
1) Sensationalist.
2) Confessionalist.
3) Dispensationalist.
4) Rationalist.
5) Realist.
When should I pray?
3. When I’m hurting spiritually
v.16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed…