The Power To Intercede

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1. God always wants the best for us and He wants us to come to ask Him for these things.

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1. All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom [of God] and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides.

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b. Jesus tells us to come to Him in times of difficulty and he will refresh us.

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c. The reason we can come and approach God with confidence is due to our special loving relationship with our Father in heaven as His children to our baptism

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2. When we pray, say: “Your will be done”. It is most important that God’s will takes place in our life, family, and in the lives of the people we care for.

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Intercession is prayer for God’s will to happen

1. It is to see God’s viewpoint in various situations, then go before the Lord with boldness and confidence to ask that He acts.
2. An intercessor is one who seeks the mind of Christ. He does not pray just for the “obvious thing” ot the “good thing”, but God’s mind on the situation,
3. The prayer that God wants to answer is the prayer for His will to happen.

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Intercession is part of God’s plan

1. 1 Tim. 2:1-4. Through Paul, God is saying that intercession is a means for His plan/will to happen.
2. As leaders, God expects us to intercede.
1. Ezek. 22:29-31. This is a situation where leaders and priests were involved in extortion, robbery, oppression. The Lord looks down and looks for at least one man who would intercede; then He would be predisposed to withhold His wrath. But God found no one; no one intervened to prevent God’s wrath from happening.

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An intercessor mediates between God and man.

1. He brings man’s needs to God for action. He represents man to God.
2. He pleads for God’s mercy and benevolence for man.
3. He is a conduit of God’s love, grace, and will. He represents God to man. He works with God.

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We are to intercede with faith and confidence

1. We should intercede seriously and with confidence. God entertains that kind of haggling.
2. We can have confidence that God pours out His blessings so that we may be able to do our mission; we know that we need God’s power and provision and we know that we ought to be interceding.
3. God will act on our prayers. He has no limitation of power and we ought to expect results when we intercede.

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How to become more effective intercessors

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1. Have great love for the people you intercede for. Be ready to offer practical assistance to meet the needs for which you intercede

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2. Have great faith that God could do things like what He did to Sarah, that He could part the waters of the Red Sea, that He can and will do the same things for us in whatever difficult situations we find ourselves in.

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3. Strive to be holy.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful. Elijah was a human being like us; yet he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain upon the land. Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the earth produced its fruit. - Jas 5:16b-18

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4. Look for opportunities to intercede and use the power we have to intercede.

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5. Make a habit of regular intercession.

1. Make this a regular part of your daily life and service.
2. Pray for your people, for more pastoral and material resources, for more intercessors.

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Paul intercedes for the people in his charge unceasingly. Let us pray fo the people under our care in the same way

Therefore, from the day we heard this, we do not cease praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding to live in a manner worthy of the Lord, so as to be fully pleasing, in every good work bearing fruit and growing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with every power, in accord with his glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy giving thanks to the Father, who has made you fit tot share in the inheritance of the holy ones in light. - Col. 1:9-12

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As household leaders, we would see much more fruit in our service if we use with discernment this powerful tool of intercession that God has given us.

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The Power To Intercede

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