If you have ever asked what God wants you to do, the whole letter of James will help answer your question. The final section, James 5:13-20, tells us what to do in four specific situations. In three of the four situations, the activity is the same: to pray. In the fourth, we have the opportunity to do for others what Christ has done for us: to rescue the wandering.
Within the final greetings in his letter to the Romans, Paul included a declaration about the final victory of the church.
Prayer is the element that activates all the other pieces of the armor of God.
The opposite results of David’s and Saul’s desperate measures hold lessons about how to live in the world while not being of the world.
