INTERCESSION

INTERCESSION

 

 

-THE ACTION OF SAYING A PRAYER ON BEHALF OF ANOTHER PERSON.

 

1 TIMOTHY 2:1 - I EXHORT THEREFORE, THAT, FIRST OF ALL, SUPPLICATIONS, PRAYERS, INTERCESSIONS, [AND] GIVING OF THANKS, BE MADE FOR ALL MEN;

 

JAMES 5:14-20

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, THAT YE MAY BE HEALED. THE EFFECTUAL FERVENT PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN AVAILETH MUCH.

17 ELIAS WAS A MAN SUBJECT TO LIKE PASSIONS AS WE ARE, AND HE PRAYED EARNESTLY THAT IT MIGHT 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.

19 BRETHREN, IF ANY OF YOU DO ERR FROM THE TRUTH, AND ONE CONVERT HIM;

20 LET HIM KNOW, THAT HE WHICH CONVERTETH THE SINNER FROM THE ERROR OF HIS WAY SHALL SAVE A SOUL FROM DEATH, AND SHALL HIDE A MULTITUDE OF SINS.

 

1 THESSALONIANS 1:2 - WE GIVE THANKS TO GOD ALWAYS FOR YOU ALL, MAKING MENTION OF YOU IN OUR PRAYERS;

 

EPHESIANS 6:18 - PRAYING ALWAYS WITH ALL PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION IN THE SPIRIT, AND WATCHING THEREUNTO WITH ALL PERSEVERANCE AND SUPPLICATION FOR ALL SAINTS;

 

1 SAMUEL 12:23 - MOREOVER AS FOR ME, GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD SIN AGAINST THE LORD IN CEASING TO PRAY FOR YOU: BUT I WILL TEACH YOU THE GOOD AND THE RIGHT WAY:

 

NUMBERS 21:7 - THEREFORE THE PEOPLE CAME TO MOSES, AND SAID, WE HAVE SINNED, FOR WE HAVE SPOKEN AGAINST THE LORD, AND AGAINST THEE; PRAY UNTO THE LORD, THAT HE TAKE AWAY THE SERPENTS FROM US. AND MOSES PRAYED FOR THE PEOPLE.

 

ROMANS 8:26 - LIKEWISE THE SPIRIT ALSO HELPETH OUR INFIRMITIES: FOR WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE SHOULD PRAY FOR AS WE OUGHT: BUT THE SPIRIT ITSELF MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR US WITH GROANINGS WHICH CANNOT BE UTTERED.

 

EZEKIEL 22:30 - AND I SOUGHT FOR A MAN AMONG THEM, THAT SHOULD MAKE UP THE HEDGE, AND STAND IN THE GAP BEFORE ME FOR THE LAND, THAT I SHOULD NOT DESTROY IT: BUT I FOUND NONE.

 

HEBREWS 7:25 - WHEREFORE HE IS ABLE ALSO TO SAVE THEM TO THE UTTERMOST THAT COME UNTO GOD BY HIM, SEEING HE EVER LIVETH TO MAKE INTERCESSION FOR THEM.

 

INTERCESSOR

      AN INTERCESSOR IS A PERSON WHO BY CALLING OR BY NATURE CHOOSES TO BE A MEDIATOR ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO CANNOT INTERVENE FOR THEMSELVES. INTERCESSORS MAKE REQUESTS, URGE, PLEAD, BEG, COUNSEL, DISCUSS, RISK, SACRIFICE, AND MAKE WAR ON ISSUES RELATING TO THE WEAKER ONES, AND THUS THEY HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE FINAL OUTCOMES FOR THOSE THEY SERVE.

      THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PERSON WHO IS CALLED AN INTERCESSOR AND A PERSON WHO PRAYS. ANY PERSON CAN PRAY, BUT NOT ALL PRAYING PEOPLE ARE INTERCESSORS. THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE ALSO - AN INTERCESSOR MAY LIVE HIS ENTIRE LIFE AND LIVE TO MAKE ONLY ONE GREAT ACT OF INTERCESSION. THE DIFFERENCES OF AN INTERCESSOR ARE SUBTLE - HIDDEN IN THE LIFE AND HEART BEHIND THE PRAYER. THERE ARE MANY EXAMPLES OF INTERCESSORS IN THE BIBLE, AND THEY WALKED WITH THE FAVOR TO IMPACT AND CHANGE GOD’S HEART.