James 5:13-20 How To Pray About Your Problems

How To Pray About Your Problems
James 5:13-20
1. What are some of the most memorable moments of your life?

2. What should a person do when he or she is in trouble? Why? (5:13, 15)

3. What should a person do when he or she is happy? Why? (5:13, 15)

4. Why is prayer important? (5:15)

5. What are the elders of the church to do for someone who is sick? Why? (5:14-15)

6. How can a person have his or her sins forgiven? (5:15)

7. What is the effect of a righteous person's prayers? (5:16)

8. Who is a good example of how God answers prayer? How? (5:17-18)

9. What is a Christian's responsibility toward a fellow believer who has wandered away from the truth? (5:19)

10. What is the benefit of helping a person get back into following the truth? (5:20)

11. What hinders Christians from praying with confidence?

12. What hinders Christians from confessing sins and praying for each other?

13. Whom do you know who has been drifting away from the Lord and who needs an encouraging word from you this week?

How To Develop Patience

How To Develop Patience

James 5: 7-12

1. What kinds of experiences try your patience?

2. How can you tell if a person is telling the truth or making a promise that he she will keep?

3. What do we need to do as we wait for the Lord's return to earth? (5:7)

4. What will happen to Christians who grumble against their fellow believers? (5:9)

5. What people serve as good examples to us? How? (5:10-11)

6. What warning did James give concerning swearing? (5:12)

7. How does God use others to build patience in our lives?

8. What makes it hard to wait on God's timing?

9. What blessing or reward came to you for suffering as a Christian?

10. For what kinds of reasons do Christians judge each other?

11. What steps will you take this week to avoid judging others in your home? workplace? church?

James 5:1-6 - How to Be Wise With Your Wealth

James 5:1-6 - How to Be Wise With Your Wealth

1. How much does it take to be considered rich in your community?

2. How does money change people?

3. What warning did James give to rich people? (5:1-3)

4. Who should "weep and wail"? Why? (5:1-6)

5. For what reasons will the rich be punished? (5:4-6)

6. How have rich people hurt others? (5:4-6)

7. What do luxury and self-indulgence have to do with the trouble that lies ahead for rich people? (5:5)

8. How do money and riches affect our relationship with God?

9. How does God want us to handle money?

10. What does it mean to live in "luxury and indulgence"?

11. How should a Christian business owner or employer be different from others who do not follow Christ?

12. What material possessions would you find it difficult to give up to help someone else?

13. What changes can you make in your habitual use of money to please God?

14. What plans for the future can you make to reflect God's concern for the poor?

James 4:13-17 How To Face Your Future

James 4:13-17 How To Face Your Future

1. If you could start your own business, what would it be?

2. What warning did James give to those who make plans for the future? (4:13-14)

3. To what did James compare our lives? (4:14)

4. What is the best way to plan ahead? (4:15)

5. What outlook toward the future does God want us to change? (4:16)

6. How did James define sin? (4:17)

7. What responsibility does God want us to take in planning our lives?

8. How can we make plans for business or living which are pleasing to God?

9. What would you like to accomplish before you die?

10. How can you determine in your daily life what is sinful and what is pleasing to God?

11. What can you do this week to place your plans for the future in God's hands?

James 4:1-10 How To Avoid Arguments

1. What do families and friends commonly fight about?

2. What are the battles going on inside a person? (4:1-2)

3. Why doesn't God give some people what they ask for? (4:3)

4. What does friendship with the world do to our relationship with God? (4:4)

5. When does God give us grace? (4:6)

6. How did James describe the way we should come to God? (4:7-10)

7. What does God do to us when we have an attitude of humility before Him? (4:10)

8. How has your belief about what God wants from you changed over the years?

9. What is the difference between pride and a sense of accomplishment?

10. What do we want from God most of the time?

11. What can you do this week to help you bring more humility into your life?

James 3:13-18 How To Relate To Others Wisely

James 3: 13-18 How To Relate To Others Wisely

1. What kinds of jobs or occupations require wisdom or discernment?

2. Where do people often go to get wisdom?

3. How can a person demonstrate wisdom and understanding? (3:13)

4. How is a person's character related to his or her ability to discern? (3:14-16)

5. What is wrong with the "wisdom" of a selfish and bitter person? (3:14-15)

6. To what do envy and selfish ambition lead? (3:16)

7. How does a wise person act? (3:17-18)

8. What happens when people "plant seeds of peace"? (3:18)

9. What is the best way to make a lasting positive impression on others?

10. What life experiences increase our wisdom?

11. What damage can bitter envy or selfish ambition do to a person?

12. What godly characteristics are present in our speech when we are pursuing God's wisdom?

13. What can you do this week to plant peace in a relationship or situation which has been troubling you?

James 3:1-12 - How To Manage Your Mouth

James 3:1-12 - How To Manage Your Mouth

1. If you could hear a recording of everything you said last week, what would you want to edit out?

2. What can you learn about a person by listening to him or her speak?

3. What unique responsibility does a teacher bear? (3:1)

4. If a person were never at fault in what he or she said, what would that show about the person? (3:2)

5. What is the purpose of a bit in the mouth of a horse? (3:3)
What is the purpose of the rudder of a ship? (3:4)
What damage can a small spark cause to a great forest? (3:4)

6. How did James describe the tongue? (3:6-8)

7. What is so difficult about taming the tongue? (3:7-8)

8. What inconsistencies are we capable of? (3:9-10)

9. What can a spring or a fruit tree teach us about speech? (3:11-12)

10.Why will God judge teachers more strictly than other people?

11. Why are sins of speech often overlooked as not serious?

12. What positive words do your family and coworkers need to hear from your mouth this week?

James 2:14-26 How To Have Real Faith

How To Have Real Faith
James 2:14-26

1. If you were 100 kms. from home with no money, no credit cards, no friends, no transportation, and no place to stay, what would you do to survive and make it home?

2. What is the relationship between faith and deeds? (2:14)

3. What illustration did James use to explain how real faith affects a person's deeds? (2:15-17)

4. What is wrong with having faith without deeds? (2:18-26)

5. What do the demons believe about God? How does it affect them? (2:19)

6. What did Abraham do to show his faith? (2:21-23)

7. How is a person justified before God? (2:24)

8. How did Rahab show faith? (2:25)

9. How are faith and deeds like the body and the spirit? (2:26)

10. How is being a Christian supposed to change the way we live?

11. What is one way to tell if a person has a real, living faith?

12. What is difficult about applying what we hear in church to our everyday lives?

13. If God has forgiven us and promised us eternal life, what motivation do we have to live in obedience to Him today?

14. In what home, work, or neighborhood situations might you be able to show faith in God this week? How?

More Bible Studies on James

More Bible studies and helpful background on the book of James can be found at
IntoThyWord.com.

James 2:1-13 How To Treat People

James 2:1-13 How To Treat People

1. How much money would it take to make you consider yourself rich?

2. Where do you see prejudice being practiced?

3. What practical example did James use to illustrate how favoritism was practiced in the church? (2:1-4)

4. What has God promised to the poor of this world? (2:5)


5. What do rich people have a history of doing to people in the church? (2:6-7)

6. What is the royal law found in Scripture? (2:8)

7. What does practicing favoritism do to a person who is trying to keep the law? (2:9)

8. What does a person have to do to be considered a lawbreaker? (2:10-11)

9. Why should we be merciful? (2:13)

10. In what ways have you been a victim of favoritism or prejudice?

11. How do we use physical appearance, job status, and athletic ability to show favoritism toward people?

12. In what practical ways can we show genuine love to people of different races, cultures, and economic standing?

13. Why is favoritism or prejudice often overlooked as a sin?

14. From whom can you ask forgiveness this week for showing prejudice toward him or her?

Small Group Studies in James

Small Groups Studies in James available online
1. http://executableoutlines.com/ja2.htm

2. James 1:1-8
James 1:1-20
James 1:1-12
James 2:24-26
James 3:1-12
James 3: 13-18
James 4:1-17
James 5:1-6

3. James- Faith for Living. Scroll down to 8 Bible Studies with questions provided.

James 1:19-27 How to be blessed by the Bible

James 1:19-27 - How to be blessed by the Bible

1. When are you most likely to lose your temper?

2. What instruction did James give about the relationship between speaking, listening, and anger? (1:19)

3. What is the relationship between anger and righteous living? (1:20)

4. What should a Christian clean out of his or her life? (1:21)

5. What is the relationship between listening to God's Word and doing it? (1:22)

6. What analogy did James use to describe a person who does not do what the Bible says? (1:23-24)

7. What does the Bible give to people? (1:25)

8. How is a person's speech related to the credibility of his or her faith? (1:26)

9. What did James describe as pure religion? (1:27)

10. How can being quick to speak and quick to anger get you into trouble?

11. How do displays of anger and temper affect the witness of a Christian?

12. What makes it hard for us to practice what we know to be good?

13. How have you experienced freedom by doing the Word of God?

14. What can we do to help widows and orphans?

15. How can we keep ourselves from being polluted by the world?

16. In what situations this week will you need to curb your anger? How can you?

17. Whom will you help this week in obedience to God's Word?

James 1: 1-18 - Trials and Tempatations

James 1:1-18 - Trials and Temptations

1. Why would you agree or disagree with the statement, "Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to what happens to you"?

2. How would you respond to someone who tells you that good can come from the trials which you are experiencing?

3. To whom was this letter written? (1:1)

4. What attitude did James tell people to exhibit when they are facing trials? (1:2)

5. What is produced when our faith is tested? (1:3-4)

6. What effect does doubt have on a person when he or she prays? (1:6-8)

7. What will eventually happen to the wealth of a rich person? (1:10-11)

8. From where does temptation come? (1:13-15)

9. From where do all good and perfect gifts come? (1:16-17)

10. How did James describe God's relationship with the people He created? (1:17-18)

11. What trials and difficulties have you experienced during your life?

12. What good has ever come out of a difficult situation in your life?

13. When do you find it hardest to pray?

14. With what doubts have you struggled concerning God and prayer?

15. How can a person who pursues wealth and riches be disappointed?

16. How would you explain to a ten-year-old why a person does something wrong or evil?

17. Why do we often blame God for tempting us when we sin?

18. What can a person do to stop an evil desire from becoming an actual evil act?

19. What do you believe God is trying to teach you this week through the trials and situations you are experiencing?