James 5: Faith’s Power in Spiritual Renewal
This document is an interpretation of James 5 and covers the themes of self-reflection, spiritual renewal, and the impact of faith on actions. The chapter also includes teachings on moral integrity, patience, and the transformative grace of faith.
Ram Reading 10-148
Channel – Prayer
Lord, our God, we put ourselves before You, trusting in you mercy, Your love and Your guidance. And we accept the principles and the promises of Jesus the Christ as our way, as our door, as our path. And we ask now that Ty love, mercy, and guidance come to us at this time that we may be about Thy business in this world.
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Behold the Lamb! Behold the wondrous star! Behold the I AM, for I am the Pantocrater, the Lord’s way, the word of God….This message is for those that gather here and those that would not succumb to that which is of this world. You have heard that the will is the way for each and every entity to create that which is God’s place in this earth, that the will is that which creates for all the path to the Lord. We would further elaborate on that which is the will and its part or that which it plays in this subject that is the return to the Father, to the Mother, to that which is the Creative Force or the Oneness. The will is that which may be subjugated by the spiritual self and in so doing then becomes the tool of God in the individual and the individual’s search and gift to others. But there is also the will that is subjugated to that which is this world or the environs of his world or that as you would see as the environment of this world. This is the will or the way of the will, as spoken of by James, that if you succumb to same, you become then of this world and will be penalized by self and by the spiritual nature of self for that which you have become or the unclean or the pig to be slaughtered. Therefore, do not let that which is your environment control you, but let the environment be controlled by yourselves, which is, then, the proper use of the will. In this way you will find that which is the light and the life and the grace.
Q What does Pantocrator mean?
S Pantocrator as creator or the Latin term for creator…You may find it used among those creative people of long ago as to that which were used in Santa Hagia Sophia, Santa Maria Hagia, and other churches.
Q Does that mean `Creator of all things’?
S In the beginning as the Creator or the Creator of all things or even as pantheon is many gods or many things, so Pantocrator is the creator of all gods, all things, all vistas.
James 5:1-6
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
S This is the example of those who use the will subjugated by that which is the environment. What is the environment? Not just the air, not just the lands around you, but the thought that prevails, the customs and actions of that which are the peoples.
You live in a land of plenty and yet you do not know what real plenty is. Plenty is that which is God’s love and God’s abundance that exists all about you. Rather you have used the eyes, the tastes, the senses that are of this plane to be the evaluator of that which you would be and seek to be and act as and through. As has been given in past times, let your eye be single. That eye is the spiritual eye that uses the will to control the environment and create the spiritual clime rather than that which is the material clime. In short, to be owned by this world is to use the will to gather the riches and to seek the goals that are set before you by others that are not of the spiritual bent. To be one who would murder thy brother, thy sister, and to condemn the laborers of the fields means that you have done these things to yourself. For you are your brother, you are your sister, and you are the laborer in the field. You are the rich man who has corrupted himself and goes, laden with his burdens of gold and silver and what have you, power, wealth, self-seeking and that which is selfishness, towards the judgment. And only the Christ then can give you the grace that will remove your judgment from you. Then seek the Christ through prayer, through action, through the meditation, but do not rationalize. For rationalization is the tool of this plane. You have fallen before that tool in times past and once again you seek to serve the Lord, but you cannot serve the Lord by being one who rationalizes this world as to its importance rather than that which you seek in the spiritual.
James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.
S How often have you sat in meditation and fretted because Jesus has not appeared, the bells have not rung, the sweet sounds of the harps have not fallen upon your inner ear? How often have you been impatient for those prayers to be answered and how often have those prayers been in selfishness rather than unselfishness? Have patience, for patience and faith walk hand in hand as brother and sister. If you have not one, you have not the other and without either you cannot find that which is the spiritual door, that door to be knocked upon and opened to you, that which is the Christ in action. This is the subjugation of the will by the spiritual nature of yourself so that you may be finding that which is patience and faith through the acts of mercy to others and to self. By acts of mercy to self are those things which you face and in realization face them, knowing all things that come to you are right in the sight of God if you so accept them as the lessons to be learned. Therefore, seek to be merciful to yourself that justice and mercy may go through you to those that seek and those that are lost. For they all are the lambs of God.
James 5:8
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
S Through patience you find God within yourself, and God opens up all views, all things. It is then that you know all things from the beginning of time, from creation to creation, through that which is the mercy and love of the Christ.
James 5:9
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
S As has been given so often, knock and the door shall be opened. But be careful how you knock and at which door you knock. For the judgment of love and mercy is in the Christ, but the judgment of love and mercy that is the condemning of self is in the door that self opens to this world. Rather than be lost, be careful. Seek in the manner prescribed and you cannot go astray. But seek in the manner that belays self to rationalization and you will find that which is the judgment and its harshness. For you must lay those temptations that you have faced upon the line and they will judge you and find you wanting.
James 5:10
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
S Even as prophets were attacked, denounced, so you must reconcile yourself to same. Even as Jeremiah stood alone amongst all the people, so you must stand alone, knowing that the pillar of strength within self is the Christ Himself and that the outer world is nothing and the inner world is all, yet not foregoing that which is the understanding that your brother, your sister has the inner world also and must be helped to find that path. This is the testament; this is the testimony of your actions within this plane. Whether you come to that which is the realization that God lies within and that is the real world, and also if you can reach that which is your brother and your sister that they, too, may turn within and find the reality of the kingdom of God. Your actions speak louder than words, then, so let action be that which is your forte.
James 5:11
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
S In the times past you have been told to read that which is Job and to understand that self faces all of these crises, all of these thorny situations and problems. And until that time that you may overcome these obstacles and turn them into stepping-stones through that which is patience and faith, you have not accomplished in the way of the Lord.
James 5:12
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
S In short, keep in mind the reality of your soul, the reality of your spirit, the reality of your quest and, therefore, let not that which again is thy environment be that which relegates you and subjugates you to this plane. Look high. Lift up your eyes that you might see the Lord. Let your eyes be single and your path be one and know that He that walketh in front of you is the light and life of this world and the savior of the people and that His name is Wonderful and that He is, indeed, Jesus the Christ.
James 5:13
Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any merry? Let him sing psalms.
S To find justice and mercy you must turn to the Lord. To find the happiness, the joy of God, you must find the Christ and in this let all your joy and all your path and all your judgment rest.
James 5:14-15
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And 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.
S The elders of the church are not from this plane. They are those who have gone before you and have risen up in Christ. And, lest names be important, know this: it is the thought of what they have done, it is the thought that they have turned to the Christ and the Christ has led them to that which is God the Father and that which has sanctified them has been the Holy Spirit. Therefore, then follow their path, seeking not in the names of those who have gone before, but in the power of love and the concentration of faith, patience, and mercy that they have set before you. Use, drink deeply of the cup that Jesus the Christ has given you, for it is bitter only to that which is of this world and sweet to the spiritual and the sanctification of the search, that the soul may be fed the more.
Q What does the oil represent here, if the elders are not of this plane?
S That, you see, is the selection that the individual may make of that of this plane or of the plane above. For many, they cannot understand that there is a greater – or even feel that there is a greater – presence or force or plane. Thus, the search then begins in that which has meaning, that of this plane or the lower elements so suggested here.
James 5:16-18
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. Elias 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. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
S Here you have the prophet that started as that which was the strength and fire and ferociousness of holy zeal, that tempered self through the learning, the understanding that the Lord becomes that which is not the fire and destruction but is, in itself, that which you would term as the still small voice. For here you have the prophet that is the I AM in mankind coming to awareness, then to fruitation, in the total understanding that God is the still small voice, is not that which is the force that would bowl over the opponents, would trod down those who stand before you or against you; that it is the quietness, the overcoming through the power of the spiritual self, rather than the spiritual force put aside and the mental concepts of the spiritual nature used rather indiscriminately in the massive frontal attack upon that which the individual would see or seek out as the enemies of God or the enemy of God. It is rather the mind of mankind misused.
James 5:19-20
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall hide a multitude of sins.
S It has been given to you before that you cannot raise to heaven, you cannot find God, unless you are raised upon the shoulders of those that you have helped. Therefore, if you would find God, you would help those who are lost; if you would find the Holy Spirit, you will lift up the brother, the sister in need of help; if you would find the Christ, you will be as a light to others that they may see by your actions, your ways, that there is a Christ, there is a God, there is a Holy Spirit that redeems Its own.
S And now we give that which is the love, the blessings of the Father Almighty, of the Son christed, and of the Holy Spirit, that all here may find the path, make the selection, and be upon thine own business to the Father.