James 4 - What is a reason why you don't get what you pray for?
First, read James chapter 4,Bible Gateway
James 4 Bible Study Questions
What causes fights and quarrels among people? (verse 1-3)
Why do people sometimes not receive when they ask God? (verse 2-3)
What does friendship with the world mean? (verse 4)
What does god jealously long for? (verse 5)
Who does God oppose? (verse 6)
Who does God show favor to? (verse 6)
Who are we to submit to? (verse 7)
Who will flee from us if we resist them? (verse 7)
What will God do if we come near to Him? (verse 8)
What will the Lord do if we humble ourselves before Him? (verse 9-10)
Is anyone to speak against a brother or sister? (verse 11)
There is only one _________ and ____, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor? (verse 12)
If anyone knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, is it sin for them? (verse 17)
Interpretation Questions
What is a reason why you don't get what you pray for?
What does it mean to be friends with the world? (Psalm 72-74)
What does it look like to submit to God?
What does it look like to resist the devil?
What does it look like for sinners to wash their hands?
What does it look like for double-minded people to purify their hearts?
What does it look like to humble yourselves before the Lord?
Thoughts
A word to those who say,
“Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.
What is your life?
You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes.
All such boasting is evil.
If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
I made a note that it is good to reread Hosea 3, Proverbs 3, Psalm 72, Psalm 73, Psalm 74, Psalm 75, and Luke 18 together with this chapter.
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