The Epistle of James
Greetings Brothers and Sisters
James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord
Jesus Christ,
To the twelve tribes which are scattered
abroad:
Greetings.
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My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
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Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
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But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete,
lacking nothing.
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If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and
without reproach, and it will be given to him.
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But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of
the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
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For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
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he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Profiting from Trials
The book of James tells us to count it
all joy when we go through various trials. The author reveals that trials happened and they test our faith. Trials can produce patience in us and it gives us the opportunity to employ patience and when patience has had
its perfect work it produces a perfect and complete man who lacks nothing.
My Prayer
God grant me the knowledge to know your desire for my life in order to be a blessing to other people;
and it is through trials that we receive faith for ourselves and for our
families.
God grant me the patience and help me to put the grace given to me
through the Holy Spirit into actions as I go through my daily life.
God gives us wisdom and he does so liberally and without reproach, and anyone that lacks wisdom needs to ask God.
God we know that based upon your word that we need
wisdom when these trials come. We need to have the answers from you and not from
ourselves.
Your word tells us to ask in faith and to not doubt when we ask
because in those moments of trials when we doubt we will end up being tossed to
and forth by the wind because we do not believe that you have the answers for
us to overcome the trial.
Your word goes on to describe this
type of doubting as being double minded and unstable because if we believe your
word. Lord help me to stay in your
word during times of trials so that I can receive the promise through faith and
patience.
The Perspective Of Rich and Poor
during trials.
during trials.
Verse 9-11
The Epistle of James
The Lowly brother should glory in his
exaltation.
Being exalted is from God and it is a
beautiful thing in the eyes of God to glory when that exaltation takes place. In verse 10 he
says to let the rich glory in his humiliation because just like the flower of
the field; he is fading away and just like when the sun burns the grass the
burning heat causes it to wither away and soon its beauty begins to perish.
So
the rich man will fade away but when we go through trials we grow in character just like we try to grow our bank accounts.
The authors tells us through the bible that we need to have this type of perspective despite if we are rich or poor.
Lord help us to remember that no matter our status in life we
can count on you to develop our character so that we can enjoy our life in
Jesus Christ.
Loving God under Trials
The Epistle of James
Verses 12-18
Blessed is the man who endures
temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life
which the lord has promised to those who love him.
God your word reveals that we must endure
through trials and when we stand approved we receive the crown and the crown
is a promise from God. It may be difficult and we may have to go through things that we must endure however,
your word speaks of trials as something created in our desires.
13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I
am tempted by God; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he himself tempt
anyone.
God your word reveals to me that these
trials do not come from you but they are something that happened in our soul. Your
word goes on to say that each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own
desires and enticed.
Lord help us to remember that our desires can lead us down roads that lead to
trials. God guide my mind and my spirit and when my desires rise then sometimes
trials come however when I am tried and approved I receive a crown.
15 When those desires have been
conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full grown it brings
forth death.
Lord your word reveals that in our flesh
we have certain type of desires and when they conceived they bring forth death. A desire not
from God produces death. And Lord it leads us into trials. Help me to attach unto
you in order to have godly desires that produce life in order to keep my soul away from trials and temptations.
God you tell us to not be deceived but
to know that every good and perfect gift comes from God and it comes from the
Father of light. God has brought us forward by the word of truth, and we are
the first fruits of his creatures.
QUALiTIES NEEDED IN TRIALS
19 So then, my beloved brethren, let
every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
20 for the wrath of man does not produce
the righteousness of God.
God help us to hear during trials and help
us to be slow to speak because we are under trials and during these times we
are tempted to fall into anger.
Lord we don’t always know whom is being used
against or what is coming against us but we have the wisdom of God in the midst of
the trials; and we know that we must be slow to speak because in silence no sin
will be found in our mouth and our wrath does not produce the righteousness of
God but it only makes things worst.
Doers and not Hearers only
21 Therefore lay aside all sin and
overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is
able to save your souls.
God help us to let you to rid us of the yucky things in our souls and if we are poor we can look forward to going further
and if we are rich we can become more humble because of the trial which has
come to burn away the filtiness in our souls.
Lord help us to take the meekness
that will come from the planted word; and this will save our souls as we
learn in our trials that we will become better and only you Lord can changed the
soul of a stubborn man or woman.
22 But be doers of the word, and not
hearers only, decieveing yourselves.
God help us to do the word and in this
we will find the blessings that we seek in any trial.
23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word
and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for
he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he
was.
Lord help us to know and understand that it
is pointless to know that we need change and fail to make changes. That if we
look in the mirror and see the things that need work and fail to work them out we stay in the same place; because that reflection is
a true and accurate depiction of who we are. The trial leads us to word and in the word we find salvation from the issue that lead to the trial and we become perfected.
25 But he who looks into the perfect law
of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the
work, this one will be blessed in what he does. 26 if anyone among you thinks
he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart,
this ones’s religion is useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and
the Father is this to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep
oneself unspotted from the world.
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