{"id":1681,"date":"2010-05-03T06:34:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2010-05-03T08:22:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T16:22:56","slug":"vital-intercession-5-03-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"Vital Intercession 5-03-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vital Intercession<\/h2>\n
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May 03 2010<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
. . . praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit . . . \u2014Ephesians 6:18<\/a><\/div>\n

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As we continue on in our intercession for others, we may find that our obedience to God in interceding is going to cost those for whom we intercede more than we ever thought.\"\"<\/a> The danger in this is that we begin to intercede in sympathy with those whom God was gradually lifting up to a totally different level in direct answer to our prayers. Whenever we step back from our close identification with God\u2019s interest and concern for others and step into having emotional sympathy with them, the vital connection with God is gone. We have then put our sympathy and concern for them in the way, and this is a deliberate rebuke to God.<\/p>\n

It is the same issue we have with blessing and miracles that God wants to provide in our own\u00a0lives. <\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"We often take action on our own behalf or on behalf of the vision we think we “see’ and as a result, we “tell” God that we do not trust Him to provide whatever is needed for the vision or to deliver us. And as a result, He cannot deliver us…because of our lack of faith. We accept our best instead of waiting obediently for God’s best.\u00a0 JDV\/DJR<\/em>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It is impossible for us to have living and vital intercession unless we are perfectly and completely sure of God. And the greatest destroyer of that confident relationship to God, so necessary for intercession, is our own personal sympathy and preconceived bias. Identification with God is the key to intercession, and whenever we stop being identified with Him it is because of our sympathy with others, not because of sin. It is not likely that sin will interfere with our intercessory relationship with God, but sympathy will. It is sympathy with ourselves or with others that makes us say, \u201cI will not allow that thing to happen.\u201d And instantly we are out of that vital connection with God.<\/p>\n

Perhaps there is a thought we should consider at the end of Romans 8:28:….”And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him and who have been called according to his purpose.”\u00a0 IF WE LET ALL THINGS WORK FOR GOOD and do not get in the way….JDV\/DJR<\/em><\/p>\n

Vital intercession leaves you with neither the time nor the inclination to pray for your<\/em> own \u201csad and pitiful self.\u201d You do not have to struggle to keep thoughts of yourself out, because they are not even there to be kept out of your thinking.\"\"<\/a> You are completely and entirely identified with God\u2019s interests and concerns in other lives. God gives us discernment in the lives of others to call us to intercession for them, never so that we may find fault with them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vital Intercession May 03 2010 . . . praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit . . . \u2014Ephesians 6:18 As we continue on in our intercession for others, we may find that our obedience to God in interceding is going to cost those for whom we intercede more than we ever […]<\/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":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}