We need more people today who understand the need for selfless, anointed intercessory prayer, for praying with a heavenly boldness.
I look around me and I see a selfishness that is amplified like never before. Maybe it’s due to the cultural shifts and systemic pressure that promotes self promotion or attention over the collective good we need to survive in society.
For those of who pray it’s easy to forget that our battle is not against flesh and blood, and that it’s not fought with earthly weapons but in the spiritual realm with prayer. I think 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 explains this well,
“For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is a alter against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Messiah and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.”
Through Intercessory prayer, we can subdue the forces of hell, and render Satan powerless. Through Intercessory prayer we can rescue family members and friends, and impact our communities and world.
Have you ever seen a miracle or heard of one? One of the greatest secrets of getting our prayers answered is intercessory prayer. This comes through understanding the power of praying the promises of God, especially when we pray in agreement with others who believe.
Intercessory prayer is a principle that is demonstrated throughout scripture.
Moses and Jacob claimed the promises of the Lord. So did Peter and John. After Peter and John were threatened by the Pharisees not to preach in the name of Jesus, they gathered with other believers and said,
“Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in then, who by the mouth of your servant David have said: Why did the nations rage, and the people plot Cain things? The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers were gathered together againest the Lord and against His Christ” -Acts 4:24-26
God knows what His Word proclaims, yet Peter made a point of repeating it again. Peter understood intercessory prayer and praying the promises of God.
Peter understood intercessory prayer and praying the promises of God.
“Now, Lord, look at their threats and grant to your servants to speak your Word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hands to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your Holy servant Messiah” -Acts 4:29-30
The result was,
“When they prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the Word of God with boldness” -Acts 4:31
We need more people today who understand the need for selfless intercessory prayer, for being filled with the Holy Spirit, and praying with heavenly boldness.
The name of Lord Jesus has given each believer the authority to be victorious in prayer. The Bible declares that anything we pray will be given when we pray in Jesus’ name. These are powerful promises that come from the lips of the Master Teacher Himself.
“And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you whatever you ask the Father in My name will be given to you” -John 16:33
This means that any request contrary to His will had no hope of being granted. Submission to God and obedience to His Son are the key elements of this promise. It is not a blanket promise to give us whatever we want.
“Assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in the middle of them” -Matthew 18:19-20
If you are a believer you have been hive unlimited use of Jesus’s name. When we pray in Jesus’s name, we go in His authority and His place, professing His power.
When Jesus said “Verily verily,” He meant I guarantee it, I give you My word.
This is the true core of intercessory prayer.
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