Prayer: The Essential Discipline of the Suffering Saint (James 5:13-18) [Audio]

LifePoint Baptist Church Pastor Jarrod Stotmeister lpforme.com Wednesday Night Sermon Title: Prayer: The Essential Discipline of the Suffering Saint Date: July 29, 2026 Passage: James 5:13-18 In this Wednesday Night Sermon, Pastor Jarrod Stotmeister preaches from James 5:13-18 on prayer as the essential discipline of the suffering saint. As James closes his letter, believers are reminded that suffering, cheer, weakness, and confession all drive the child of God to earnest, faithful prayer, trusting the Lord to hear, sustain, and work according to His will. James 5:13-18 13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.