James 5:15. Is there a promise for the sick?

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Just some thoughts on what God was teaching us last year. Difficult year but good year. To God all glory. God bless you!

Is God's will opened about healing?

Yes, God’s will is opened in James 5:15 and we can pray according 1 John 5:14-16. It’s not a reminder but simple command. This text doesn’t say to pray for God’s will, but to pray for the healing because it is God’s will. When people pray for salvation they do not pray for if there’s God’s will to save them but they ask for salvation (spiritual healing) with assurance because it is God’s will. No one can be saved without first knowing will of God (“He bore our sins”) that He will save everyone without exceptions. No one can be healed without first knowing will of God (“He bore our sickness”) that He will heal everyone without exceptions. That explains (lack of knowledge of God's word on the matter and following doubts) why healings in our churches are so few. “He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and heal them” (Mark 6:5).

God would have us say with Job -“Though He slay me, yet I will trust Him!”

Yes, we have to say that. And after we persevere He would heal us like He did for Job. For us and others to see “that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful” (James 5:11). Job also said "I have heard you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye see you" (42:5), through his trial he drew closer in his relationship with God, He knew God, His character, His love, His faithfulness, His mercy, is this not a main goal of trials in our lives? But He will heal us just like He will forgive us according to His goodness and faithfulness (1John 1:9; 5:16).

Should we pray according to God's will?

Always, but how do we discover the will of God? From the Bible. And Bible opened God’s will on this matter for us. Look Mat 8:16-17, Mat 14:35-36, Mark 1:41, Luke 9:2, Mark 16:18-20, Act 4:29-30, Act 5:15-16, Act 19:11-12, Act 28:8-9 and of course James 5:15.

Need of perseverance.

God can not deny His word, even if sickness is not removed right a way. And you are waiting patently in sickness even when the pain is unspeakable agony and death seems so close, when you still do not cast your confidence, even when all around you gave up and some even are offended by your faith, when doctors think you are foolish but you still maintain confidence that God cannot lie or deny Himself. Your faith grow stronger and not weaker. Just like Abraham you do not consider your body but occupied with God's written promise. This faith glorifies God and reach the promise. It’s easy to believe in God’s goodness in general and so difficult to believe “That I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living” (Ps 27:13) and “see the glory of God” in my life. (John 11:40)