Ask for What You Need

How are you raising relationships and communities of healing in a world so full of harm?

John 5:13-16

Are any of you in trouble? Then pray. Are any of you in good spirits? Then sing a hymn of praise. Are any of you sick? Then call for the elders of the church, and have them pray over those who are sick and anoint them with oil in the name of Christ. And this prayer offered in faith will make them well, and Christ will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. So confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayers of the just are powerful and effective.

What I hear when I read this passage is: Ask for what you need from God and one another. And also, faithfully offer prayer, song, anointing, confession, and forgiveness for one another so that you may be healed.

We, as the body of Christ. We with God working within and among us, are balm for one another. We are medicine for each other. We are healing presence. We also includes science!

And not only that, but when we operate this way together, we are “the just” whose prayers are powerful and effective.

I am very much a “get off of your knees and pray” kind of person. Action-oriented. This passage calls us to be the prayer for one another. Prayer is not an internal thought, or a mumble under our breath, it is the way we take care of each other.

But how many of us believe that we have such power within us and within our relationships and community?

How are you raising relationships and communities of healing in a world so full of harm?

— Jenny Whitcher

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