DAY 34 - 6 KINDS OF PRAYER: PRAYER OF INTERCESSION
The Fifth Prayer - Prayer of Intercession
Intercession means you are interceding—acting in prayer—on behalf of someone else. The person may be incapable of praying for himself. Perhaps he is on drugs or mentally confused, or perhaps there are dark, spiritual forces at work.
Intercession involves praying for others. It may involve praying in a general way for such things as the church or the government, or offering up more specific prayers based on your knowledge of a person's need.
In Ephesians 1:15-18, Paul wrote: "Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints."
Here Paul makes it plain that he prayed regularly for the church at Ephesus and for the individuals there to receive these blessings. He does not set himself in agreement with anyone, so this seems to be a good example of intercessory prayer.
Likewise, in his greeting to the Philippians, he wrote, "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy" (Phil. 1:3-4). The fact that Paul said he made requests for them suggests that this also was an example of intercessory prayer.
PRAYER #34 - Pray for Someone
There are many people who are in need of a friend, a helper, someone to champion them. The beauty of intercessory prayer is that they never need to know that you’ve been lifting them up in prayer. Who is that person? Who do you need to intercede for? Lift them up today.
Based on the article “Six Kinds of Prayer”, by Frederick Price. Original article can be found here: http://www.charismamag.com/spirit/prayer/3006-god-has-an-answer
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