Life of an Intercessor
There are many meanings to the word intercession: 1. to have a conversation on
behalf of, 2. to plead with or for another, 3. to make a petition on behalf of another, and 4.
to approach a King to plead the cause of others.1
God has used a countless number of people as intercessors over several years.
There are many recorded in the Bible and many modern intercessors have had books
written about them. For example, Esther was a great intercessor in the Bible because she
risked her own life by going into King Ahasuerus courts to plead for her people to not be
sentenced to death according to the decree in which Haman made. She would have been
killed if she had not first prepared herself and had not found favor in the sight of King
Ahasuerus. 2
One of the great intercessor of modern times that has been written about is Rees
Howells. He gave his whole life to intercession. He went through every aspect of
intercession and was very willing to lay his life down for people he did not even know
because he had Jesus' love so overflowing within him for everyone he met. He once came
to the point of dying because he took on the intercession for a tubercular women. He
came to the point of having the disease himself and coming to the point of death to see
that the woman no longer had it.3
The greatest intercessor of all though was and is Jesus. He came to the earth in
the form of a man to experience all man have to experience. While He was on the earth he
would pray for man, healed man, and even bless man when He was cursed by man. When
all was to come to the end, He then died to take all of mankind's sin, and then showed
man by His resurrection that he can have dominion over sin. ...
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...r men who every day deny Him, disobey Him, and use Him to
attain what He wants and then leaves Him until the next worry or need appears. He still
took away all man's infirmities, hurts, sickness, loneliness, and sin; and was then turned
away from His heavenly Father.
Through all of this though, Jesus conquered death and gained authority still on
man's behalf. That man would not have to try to conquer death or sin in himself but could
rely on Jesus to vanquish all he experiences and runs into when he is interceding for
another individual.
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Jesus is the ultimate example of what the life of intercession should be. Man can
attain what this life of intercession is to be if he only gives up his all into God's hands and
never tries to take it back. Trusting, listening, and relying on Jesus to pull him through
will be the key to an intercessory life.
... of their jealousy and in 1692 she was imprisoned for months under these false accusations and in early 1963 was released. Though newly freed and with the charges dropped in court, the townspeople still held their vendetta against her or more precisely, her family name. Over the next couple years she lived as a beggar and in 1695 she died destitute.
takes part in suffering even as he continues to heal the creation. However, he admits to be unable
his life. He was able to reach a peace of mind from which he ended his struggles, and he
life, and acting upon his responsibilities in order to follow with his heart, instead of with
must die." God spoke to her and she acted upon the support of a loved one.
needs to forget about the wrong things that he did in life and repent to God,
The first step was receiving Christ and the next step is to become strengthen in the faith so that the adversary cannot steal, kill, or destroy the good work that has been started in one’s spiritual life. There are afflictions that will occur, but with God’s help, we can maintain the righteous lifestyle. Even though hardship may arise, God will keep us in perfect peace, if we can stay focus on Jesus.
meant much more. It included a love of G-d and doing the will of G-d as well as
•What are some examples of how Jesus knew how to give the love someone needed?
throngs of people to seek a friendship with their surrounding world. He had a way
...e greatest among the Compsons. Both Dilsey and Jesus chose to commit their time to serve others rather than worrying about themselves. A term often used for this is “dying to self,” or in other words risking your wants and lifestyle to help others. There is a slim amount of people these days that have this gift, because selfishness has taken over selflessness. Therefore, to acquire a selfless attitude we must go against our desires for power, popularity, and prominence, hence why we are all selfish. We choose to take the easy way out because being selfless requires you to go out of your way and put your desires to the side for a while. No one is obligated to be a servant to others; therefore, we can more easily see the ones in our society who are, compared to the ones who are not. The choice to be a servant can reveal a certain character that everyone loves.
that he would not succumb to death from a man born of a woman. How he
God can do amazing things through ordinary people. God can and will do the same through us if we fully submit ourselves to Him.
Jesus was the Son of God and some may ask why he needed followers, the
My life, arise and enter into the pattern and purpose of God, in the name of Jesus