James 5:16 Confess 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.
The confession of sins is not made unto priests, but if you have offended a brother admit it to him. If you sin against any they will pray for you.
1 john 5:16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
There are two types of sins, there are sins unto death and sins that are not unto death.
The word of God says, if you see your brother sin a sin not unto death, you shall pray for him. A brother who sins should not be put to bad light, you are to pray for him.
Love forgives sins, it understands the sins of others. Love is a remedy to sin.
1 peter 4:8 And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”
Confession is not made unto man, but it is made first unto God and then unto man.
Psalms 32:6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
It is good to confess our sins, but he that covers his sin shall not prosper.
If you confess your sin unto God and then unto whom you have sinned against, God will forgive you.
Proverbs 28:13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
During the time of Elijah, God sent the prophet to a widow who was rigtheous in his eyes .
Luke 4:25-27 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. 26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. 27 And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”
If we pray not repetitiously but fervently God will hear us and would have answered before you started praying.
Isaiah 65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
There is a difference between righteous people who obey God and those who do evil.
Psalms 16:3 Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge. I said to the LORD, "You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing." As for the saints who are in the land, they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight. ... I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.
It is Gods delight to see men that dwell in holiness.
Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
The prayer of a righteous man id effective but the prayers of the wicked is an Abomination before God.
If you pray and you obey his words he will answer.
There is a household of God in heaven.
Ephesians 3:14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
There is also a household of God om earth, and it is the church.
1 Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.