In Week 12 of 52 Weeks Of Gratefulness, I give thanks to God for a confession.
Today, I attended the Men’s Lunch that is held on Thursdays at New Horizons Christian Fellowship at 1010 Victory Lane in Starkville.
It was one of the most beautiful times of Communion I’ve experienced this year, and it all began with a brother being real and opening our discussion with, “I struggle…”
James 5:16 says,
“Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”
I don’t often see “confession” in our gatherings. Instead, we fall into churchiness and deflect or pretend that we’ve got it all together. In so doing we become guilty of what the Apostle Paul warns against in 2 Timothy 3:5 “having a form of godliness, but denying its power.”
Imagine being sick, going to the hospital, and talking about how bad someone else’s illness is. I’ll never get well doing that. We give up the power available to us when we do that. But all it takes is one person sick and desperate enough to cry out for help to change everything.
There is power in confession, there is power in prayer, there is power in His presence and He is present among His people.
“For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
– Matthew 18:20
It is no coincidence that Matthew 18:20, quoted just above, is in the context of forgiveness. Hallelujah.
This brother’s confession released what God had already pre-ordained for this moment through brethren God had already prepared for this moment.
I can’t speak for the brother who confessed about whether he was healed.
But, I was.
I’m grateful.
#52WoG
