{"id":3587,"date":"2010-12-13T06:10:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T14:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2010-12-14T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T20:00:11","slug":"3587","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=3587","title":{"rendered":"Intercessory Prayer 12-13-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dec\u00a013,\u00a02010<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
. . . men always ought to pray and not lose heart \u2014Luke 18:1<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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You cannot truly intercede through prayer if you do not believe in the reality of redemption. Instead, you will simply be turning intercession into useless sympathy for others, which will serve only to increase the contentment they have for remaining out of touch with God. True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. Intercession means to \u201cfill up . . . [with] what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ\u201d (<\/span>Colossians 1:24<\/span><\/span><\/a>), and this is precisely why there are so few intercessors. People describe intercession by saying, \u201cIt is putting yourself in someone else\u2019s place.\u201d That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God\u2019s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.<\/span><\/div>\n
As an intercessor, be careful not to seek too much information from God regarding the situation you are praying about, because you may be overwhelmed. If you know too much, more than God has ordained for you to know, you can\u2019t pray; the circumstances of the people become so overpowering that you are no longer able to get to the underlying truth.<\/span><\/div>\n
Our work is to be in such close contact with God that we may have His mind about everything, but we shirk that responsibility by substituting doing for interceding. And yet intercession is the only thing that has no drawbacks, because it keeps our relationship completely open with God.<\/span><\/div>\n
What we must avoid in intercession is praying for someone to be simply \u201cpatched up.\u201d We must pray that person completely through into contact with the very life of God. Think of the number of people God has brought across our path, only to see us drop them! When we pray on the basis of redemption, God creates something He can create in no other way than through intercessory prayer.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Intercessory Prayer Dec\u00a013,\u00a02010 . . . men always ought to pray and not lose heart \u2014Luke 18:1 \u00a0 You cannot truly intercede through prayer if you do not believe in the reality of redemption. Instead, you will simply be turning intercession into useless sympathy for others, which will serve only to increase the contentment they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}