James 1:23 - Prayer Tents



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James 1
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1I, James, am a slave of God and the Master Jesus, writing to the twelve tribes scattered to Kingdom Come: Hello!G2385G1401G2316G2532G2962G2424G5547G1427G5443G1722G1290G5463

Faith Under Pressure

2Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides.G3450G80G2233G3956G5479G3752G4045G4164G3986 3You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors.G1097G3754G1383G5216G4102G2716G5281 4So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.G1161G2192G5281G2192G5046G2041G2443G5600G5046G2532G3648G3007G1722G3367 5If you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You'll get his help, and won't be condescended to when you ask for it.G1161G1536G5216G3007G4678G154G3844G2316G1325G3956G574G2532G3679G3361G2532G1325G846 6Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who "worry their prayers" are like wind-whipped waves.G1161G154G1722G4102G3367G1252G1063G1252G1503G2830G2281G416G2532G4494 7Don't think you're going to get anything from the Master that way,G1063G3633G3361G1565G444G3633G3754G2983G5100G3844G2962 8adrift at sea, keeping all your options open.G1374G435G182G1722G3956G846G3598 9When down-and-outers get a break, cheer!G1161G2744G80G5011G2744G1722G846G5311 10And when the arrogant rich are brought down to size, cheer! Prosperity is as short-lived as a wildflower, so don't ever count on it.G1161G4145G1722G846G5014G3754G5613G438G5528G3928 11You know that as soon as the sun rises, pouring down its scorching heat, the flower withers. Its petals wilt and, before you know it, that beautiful face is a barren stem. Well, that's a picture of the "prosperous life." At the very moment everyone is looking on in admiration, it fades away to nothing.G1063G2246G393G4862G2742G2532G3583G5528G2532G438G846G1601G2532G2143G4383G846G622G3779G2532G3133G4145G3133G1722G846G4197 12Anyone who meets a testing challenge head-on and manages to stick it out is mighty fortunate. For such persons loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life.G3107G435G3739G5278G3986G3754G1384G1096G2983G4735G2222G3739G2962G1861G25G846 13Don't let anyone under pressure to give in to evil say, "God is trying to trip me up." God is impervious to evil, and puts evil in no one's way.G3004G3367G3004G3985G3754G3985G575G2316G1063G2316G551G2076G2556G1161G3985G846G3985G3762 14The temptation to give in to evil comes from us and only us. We have no one to blame but the leering, seducing flare-up of our own lust.G1161G1538G3985G1828G5259G2398G1939G2532G1185 15Lust gets pregnant, and has a baby: sin! Sin grows up to adulthood, and becomes a real killer.G1534G1939G4815G5088G266G1161G266G658G616G2288 16So, my very dear friends, don't get thrown off course.G4105G3361G4105G3450G27G80 17Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle.G3956G18G1394G2532G3956G5046G1434G2076G509G2597G575G3962G5457G3844G3739G1762G3756G3883G2228G644G5157 18He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures.G1014G616G2248G3056G225G1519G2248G1511G5100G536G846G2938

Act on What You Hear

19Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear.G5620G3450G27G80G2077G3956G444G2077G5036G1519G191G1021G1519G2980G1021G1519G3709 20God's righteousness doesn't grow from human anger.G1063G3709G435G2716G3756G1343G2316 21So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.G1352G659G3956G4507G2532G4050G2549G1209G1722G4240G1721G3056G3588G1410G4982G5216G5590 22Don't fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. 44Ac on what you hear!G1161G1096G4163G3056G2532G3361G202G3440G3884G1438 23Those who hear and don't act are like those who glance in the mirror,G3754G1536G2076G202G3056G2532G3756G4163G3778G1503G435G2657G846G1078G4383G1722G2072 24walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.G1063G2657G1438G2532G565G2532G2112G1950G3697G2258 25But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.G1161G3879G1519G5046G3551G1657G2532G3887G3778G1096G3756G1953G202G235G4163G2041G3778G2071G3107G1722G846G4162 26Anyone who sets himself up as "religious" by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air.G1536G1722G5213G1380G1511G2357G5468G3361G846G1100G235G538G846G2588G5127G2356G3152 27Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.G2513G2356G2532G283G3844G2316G2532G3962G2076G3778G1980G3737G2532G5503G1722G846G2347G5083G1438G784G575G2889


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