OVERCOMING AFFLICTION Affliction is a cause of persistent pain or distress. Individual affliction, especially sickness, poverty, the oppression of the weak by the strong and rich, perverted justice. Afflictions are normal experiences of the believers, but God has promised and made provisions for the believers to be delivered from afflictions. James 5:13-16 13. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing Psalms. 14. ⁠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: 15. ⁠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. 16. ⁠Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another