James 5:17

Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.
American Standard Version

Treated in 7 passages across the library.

Where it is preached

  1. The Key Teachings of E. M. Bounds · Ochorus Originals

    Behold, He Prayeth cites JAMES 5:17

    …ight not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. JAMES 5:17 Bounds liked to teach by example. Power Through Prayer is crowded with the names of prayi…

  2. Prayer and Praying Men · E. M. Bounds

    Elijah, the Praying Prophet cites James 5:17

    …d name and violated law, and to vindicate His servants. Instead of “prayed earnestly,” in James 5:17, the Revised Version has it, “In his prayer he prayed,” or “with prayer he prayed.” That …

  3. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Set upon Duties notwithstanding Weaknesses cites James v. 17

    …then my prayers might be regarded: but, saith he, Elias was a man of like passions to us, James v. 17, he had his passions as well as we; for do we think that God heard him because he was wit…

  4. The Key Teachings of Dwight L. Moody · Ochorus Originals

    Prevailing Prayer cites JAMES 5:17

    …ight not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. JAMES 5:17 Moody’s book Prevailing Prayer, subtitled What Hinders It?, is not a treatise. Like most …

  5. The Key Teachings of F. B. Meyer · Ochorus Originals

    Men of Like Passions cites JAMES 5:17

    …ight not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. JAMES 5:17 If Meyer is remembered for one kind of book above all, it is the Bible biography. Over ma…

  6. George Müller of Bristol · Arthur T. Pierson

    Last Looks, Backward and Forward cites James v. 16-18

    …s the truth which George Müller's living epistle enforces and illustrates; it is found in James v. 16-18: "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much," is the sentence which o…

  7. Christ the Healer · F. F. Bosworth

    Is Healing for All? cites James 5:16-18

    …r and pray one for the other, for healing, with the purpose that Elijah prayed for rain. (James 5:16-18). Would God command us to thus importune for what it is not His will to do? Certainly not…

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