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Intercede More - Friday Praise & Pray (for others) December 2, 2022

Updated: Dec 4, 2022

The Bible states in Proverbs 11:25 - A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.


So many of us read this and think it is talking about finances alone. Read that scripture again and now realize that it also speaks to being generous in the place of prayer.


The Lord has called each of us to step into the ministry of intercession. We are told to pray for people in 1 Timothy 2:1. Additionally, there are numerous examples of great intercessors in the Bible who were elevated by God because they stood in the gap for others. We've discussed such men and women and they include Daniel, Esther, Abraham and Isaac. We've also considered the power of intercession through a modern day example with the escape of the kidnapped foreign missionaries from their captors in Haiti.


And of course there is the Great Intercessor Himself - Jesus - who gave His very life so we could all have access to eternal life in heaven. Romans 8:34 - Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Further, Apostle Paul instructed us in 1 Corinthians 11:1 - And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ (NLT). Jesus obeyed God the Father and was given the keys to hell and death, made head of the church. He was elevated, His enemies placed at His feet.


If imitating Jesus by genuinely interceding for others will also elevate you, shouldn't you be interceding more?


Therefore, we need to spend more time interceding for others. We have to be willing to put the prayer needs of others before ours. That is one of the key tenets of this fellowship. It's not just for us to gather and enjoy each other's company but for us to lift up people, nations and other things to God for His grace and mercy. The Lord calls us to be unselfish not just during Praise & Pray (for others), but to show our faith by interceding for others even when not gathered here.


God has given us this and other instructions to help us and to bring us to the fullness of life Jesus died for (John 10:10). When we instead lean on our own intelligence or the wisdom of the world, we end up creating delays and introducing frustration into our lives. James 4:17 - Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it (NLT). To know that you should intercede and to not do so is to rebel against the Lord and we are taught in 1 Samuel 15:23 - For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.” May we never reject the word of God. May we never rebel and in turn be rejected, cast down and trampled underfoot, IJMN, Amen.


Let us not forget that intercession is key to our journey as believers in Jesus and His Father. And as we have stepped into the last month of 2022, I pray we will take intercession more seriously. Join us at Noon EST where we will joyfully fellowship with glad hearts before we stand in the breach for people in our fellowship as well as others.


God bless you and see you then!




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