Are Intercessory Prayers Or Prayer Chains Necessary?
As we have seen earlier, we are under a different, separate administration through the evangel of the Uncircumcision. What may have been valid in another administration may be out of keeping with ours. Anachronisms, fit for another time, another place, they run out of sync with ours! In the economy under the evangel of the Circumcision, personal qualification through works of righteousness put believers in good standing with God. So James could advise people who were physically infirm to request the prayers for healing on their behalf. Jas.5:14-16 Is anyone infirm among you? Let him call to him the elders of the ecclesia, and let them pray over him, rubbing him with olive oil [elaion] in the name of the Lord. And the vow of faith will be saving the faltering and the Lord will be rousing him up, and, if he should have done sins, it will be forgiven him. Then confess sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The operative petition of the just is availing mu
