James 5:15-18 Inner Healing

James 5:15-18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read James 5 in context

Scripture Focus

15And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
James 5:15-18

Biblical Context

James 5:15-18 teaches that earnest, faith-filled prayer can heal, forgive sins, and restore relationships through confession and mutual care. It shows healing as a shift in belief—from separation to wholeness—wrought by steady, sincere intention.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your verse is not asking a distant God to intervene; it invites you to awaken to the I AM that you are. The prayer of faith saves the sick because faith is not a plea but a conscious agreement with the reality already present in your inner life. When you confess your faults and pray for another, you are not improving someone else's state; you are shifting your own inner weather to alignment with health and harmony. Elijahs drought and rain symbolize states of consciousness you can entertain: you can remain steadfast in the inner conviction that rain is coming, and so the outer world follows. The Lord shall raise him up is the rising of your awareness above limitation, not a miracle performed upon you from without. Forgiveness of sins is the release from the belief that you are guilty or broken; it is the re-entry of your life into wholeness by the recognition that you are always in the presence of wholeness. So pray with fervor, not to change God, but to revise your sense of self to ownership of healing, forgiveness, and fruitfulness. The earth brings forth fruit when consciousness bears the image of health.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, place a hand on your chest, and declare I am healed and forgiven. Sink into the feeling of that reality until your inner weather shifts toward rain instead of drought, then carry that sensation into your next moment.

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