title: Believing God When You Are Tempted to Doubt: The Measure of a Christian Based on James 1 (Biblical renewal series)
author:  Gene A. Getz 
description: Studies in Jame, more so than any other New Testament book, focuses on and defines how we can develop the mind of Christ in an intensely personal way. It provides us with the opportunity to achieve the unerring faith of Christ. James 1 is an inspirational guide to renewing your mind and discovering God&apos;s will.
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  James
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes
  which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
  
  
  
  
  
  1:2 Count it all joy, my brothers {The word for "brothers" here and where
  context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or
  "siblings."}, when you fall into various temptations,
  
  
  
  
  
  1:3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
  
  
  
  
  
  1:4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete,
  lacking in nothing.
  
  
  
  
  
  1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all
  liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
  
  
  
  
  
  1:6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like
  a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
  
  
  
  
  
  1:7 For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
  
  
  
  
  
  1:8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
  
  
  
  
  
  1:9 But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in