[16] Confess one to another, and pray for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. [17] Elias a man subject to like passions as and he prayed earnestly not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. [18] And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.