WHAT IS INTERCESSION?
INTERCESSION IS STANDING AS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN MAN AND GOD , FIGHTING THAT PERSONS CASE UNTIL YOU BEAR RESULTS ( INTERCEDING FOR THE PERSON YOU ARE PRAYING FOR)
LUKE 23:34
“FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY NO NOT WHAT THEY DO”.
HERE, WE SEE JESUS INTERCEDING ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE TO GOD THE FATHER ASKING THAT THEY BE FORGIVEN. THE DEATH OF JESUS ON THE CROSS IS ALSO AN ACT OF INTERCESSION, JESUS SACRIFICED HIS LIFE FOR HUMANITY AS HE DIED FOR OUR SINS.
THE MOST POWERFUL SACRIFICE AND INTERCESSION ON BEHALF OF ALL PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD, WOULD ANYONE EVER ATTEMPT FOR EVEN HIS LOVED ONE? YET JESUS FINISHED IT AND COMPLETED IT ONCE AND FOR ALL ON THE CROSS.
PEOPLE HAVE YET TO RECOGNISE IT, INSPITE OF THIS GREAT SACRIFICE JESUS YET STANDS IN THE GAP BETWEEN MAN AND GOD INTERCEDING ON OUR BEHALF AND IS LOOKING OUT IF ANYONE WILL STAND ALONG WITH HIM.
WHY IS INTERCESSION NECESSARY?
MATTHEW 7:7
ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE , SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND, KNOCK AND THE DOOR SHALL OPEN TO YOU”.
THE PRAYER OF PETITION OR INTERCESSION IS NECESSARY BECAUSE IT IS THROUGH PRAYER WE CHANNEL OUR NEEDS TO GOD. IN THE ABOVE VERSE, WE ARE TOLD TO ASK AND WE WILL RECEIVE, BUT ASK WHAT AND HOW? IF WE ASK ACCORDING TO THE WILL AND IN ALIGNMENT TO GODS WILL THEN YES WE ARE SURE TO RECEIVE.
INTERCESSION IS PRAYING ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD (YOU CAN SAY CARRYING GOD’S BURDEN AND PRAYING FOR WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO PRAY FOR) . IF A PERSON IS IN PROBLEM AND SEEKING WITH HIS HEART MIND AND SOUL FOR SOMEONE TO HELP HIM AS HE IS LOST, GOD HEARING HIS CRY WILL SURELY BRING AN INTERCESSOR TO HIM, WHO WILL FIGHT THE BATTLE ON BEHALF OF HIM.
LUKE 2:36-38- NKJV
NOW THERE WAS ONE, ANNA, A PROPHETESS, THE DAUGHTER OF PHANUEL, OF THE TRIBE OF ASHER. SHE WAS OF GREAT AGE, AND HAD LIVED SEVEN YEARS FROM HER VIRGINITY, AND THIS WOMAN WAS A WIDOW OF ABOUT 84 YEARS, WHO DID NOT DEPART FROM THE TEMPLE, BUT SERVED GOD WITH FASTING AND PRAYER NIGHT AND DAY, AND COMING IN THAT INSTANT SHE GAVE THANKS TO THE LORD, AND SPOKE OF HIM TO ALL THOSE WHO LOOKED FOR REDEMPTION IN JERUSALEM.
IF YOU READ THE ABOVE VERSE FROM LUKE IT’S MENTIONED SHE DID NOT LEAVE THE TEMPLE BUT SERVED GOD WITH FASTING AND PRAYERS, WHY ?
AFTER THE BOOK OF MALACHI RIGHT UPTO THE BOOK OF MATTHEW THERE WAS A GAP OF 400 YEARS , IN THESE YEARS GOD WAS SILENT, HE STOPPED COMMUNICATING BECAUSE HIS PROPHETS HAD BEEN KILLED, DURING THIS PHASE PEOPLE SUFFERED A LOT, IT WAS IN THIS TIME ANNA THE PROPHETESS TOOK GOD’S BURDEN UPON HERSELF, AND SHE STARTED PRAYING FOR A SAVIOR AND HEARD HER PRAYERS AND JESUS WAS THE SAVIOR WHO WAS BORN TO SAVE THE WORLD. THE BIRTH OF JESUS WAS PROPHESIED MUCH EARLIER BY THE PROPHETS ISAIAH, EZEKIEL, ETC, BUT THE PROPHECY CAME TO PASS ONLY
AFTER ONE WIDOW TOOK THE BURDEN UPON HERSELF AND PRAYED UNCEASINGLY FOR THE MESSIAH AND IT TOOK PLACE, SATAN TRIED HIS BEST BUT IT HAPPENED WHEN ANNA PRAYED THAT ANGEL GABRIEL CAME AND ENCOUNTERED MARY, WHEN INTERCESSORS PRAY ANGELS ARE RELEASED AND THE IMPOSSIBLE BECOMES POSSIBLE AND GOD’S ANGER ABATES.
INTERCESSORS STAND IN THE GAP THEIR WHOLE LIFE PRAYING, THEY ALIGN THEMSELVES FOR GOD’S ORIGINAL INTENT, FAMILIES, CHURCH, CITIES, NATIONS, THEY ARE BATTLE AXES, VESSELS IN THE HANDS OF GOD. THEY EXECUTE GOD’S PURPOSES AND WILL OF GOD ON THE EARTH. WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL BECAUSE HEAVEN BACKS UP INTERCESSORS, GOD IS NO DEBTOR TO ANY MAN BUT YES, TO AN INTERCESSOR, WHY? BECAUSE INTERCESSORS CARRY GOD’S BURDEN.
IF YOU HAVE READ THE WORD WHERE JESUS WHILE CARRYING THE CROSS FELL, WHO DO YOU THINK HELPED JESUS CARRY THAT BURDEN , IT WAS SIMON OF CYRENE WHO WAS AN AFRICAN FROM NIGERIA. THAT'S THE REASON GOD’S GRACE AND MERCY IS UPON THAT LAND, AS MUCH AS THEY PRAY THERE WICKEDNESS LURKS TOO.
INTERCESSORS ARE TERRORS TO THE DEMONIC KINGDOM, GOD NOT ONLY BLESSES INTERCESSORS BUT ALSO THEIR GENERATION, INTERCESSORS CARRY THE BURDEN OF GOD AS SIMON OF CYRENE DID. GOD IS EVEN TODAY THIS VERY MINUTE IS LOOKING OUT FOR ONE PERSON WHO WILL CARRY HIS BURDEN AND STAND IN THE GAP. AND THEN AS SAID IN MATTHEW 7:7 WILL TAKE PLACE IN YOUR LIFE ASK, SEEK AND KNOCK AND “LO BEHOLD” ITS DONE FOR YOU.
SO. HOW MANY OUT THERE ARE READY TO CARRY THE BURDEN OF GOD AND RECEIVE UNTOLD AND ABUNDANT BLESSINGS.
PRAYER:
FATHER THANK YOU FOR YOUR IMMENSE LOVE THAT YOU HAVE SHOWERED UPON US, GIVE ME THE GRACE TO NOT ONLY WALK IN OBEDIENCE BUT HEAR YOUR CALL TO STAND IN THE GAP ALONG WITH YOU. IN JESUS NAME I PRAY, AMEN AMEN AND AMEN.
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