DAY 13 – THE SECRET OF INTERCESSION
Intercession is one of the element in our personal prayer life. Intercession is the priestly ministry of a go-between, someone who stands between heaven and a need on earth and petitions the father for breakthrough. The powerful secret of intercession is that it accelerates God’s purposes in earth.
There are many things God has purposed for this planet, and they will most certainly happen; the only question is, will they happen in and with and through us? Will we participate? If we don’t pray, God’s purpose will happen, but they will not happen sooner. They will be delayed.
One of the most profound ways you can love someone is by praying for them. Intercession does something very powerful in the intercessor: It joins the heart of the intercessor to the heart of the one being prayed for. In intercession, you are investing yourself in another person’s life. It is one of the secrets of the secret place. Our intercessory prayers this become “cords of affection” which bind the hearts of the believer to one another, joining the body of Christ together in the greatest of all virtues that’s love. The body of Christ doesn’t work properly without the members praying for each other. Prayer is the immunity system of the body of Christ. Through prayer, we fight off the invasive forces that seek to disease and afflict the body of Christ.
Pain signals the body to send help to the hurting member. pain is absolutely necessary for the body to be able to repair itself and heal itself. Thus, pain is gift. It’s crucial that we feel the pain of suffering members in the body so that we can rise to repair and heal as needed. Intercession is a response to pain, we cry because we’re in pain. Cries of intercession are the vehement cries of believers beseeching heaven on behalf of one another.
Prayer is God’s gift which empowers the body to edify itself in love. Do our patterns of prayer indicate that we’re feeling the pain? May the lord put a holy alarm in our spirits over the powerlessness of the church, and drive us to our knees in an impassioned pursuit of the overcoming authority Christ died to give us!
