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Title: THE PRAYER OF INTERCESSION


1
The Prayer of Intercession
2
The Prayer of Intercession
  • Intercession is the act of going to God on behalf
    of another or others.

3
Why Should We Intercede?
  • 1. God commands it.

4
1 Timothy 21-4
  • 1 Therefore I exhort first of all that
    supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving
    of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and
    all who are in authority, that we may lead a
    quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and
    reverence. 3 For this is good and acceptable in
    the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all
    men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of
    the truth.

5
Why Should We Intercede?
  • 1. God commands it.
  • 2. By doing so we invite God to act in the lives
    of others.

6
Matthew 937,38
  • 37 Then He said to His disciples, The harvest
    truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 38
    Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send
    out laborers into His harvest.

7
Why Should We Intercede?
  • 1. God commands it.
  • 2. By doing so we invite God to act in the lives
    of others.
  • 3. By doing so we empower the saints.

8
2 Thessalonians 111,12
  • 11 Therefore we also pray always for you that our
    God would count you worthy of this calling, and
    fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and
    the work of faith with power, 12 that the name of
    our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you,
    and you in Him, according to the grace of our God
    and the Lord Jesus Christ.

9
Why Should We Intercede?
  • 1. God commands it.
  • 2. By doing so we invite God to act in the lives
    of others.
  • 3. By doing so we empower the saints.
  • a. We empower them for unity.

10
John 1720-21
  • 20 I do not pray for these alone, but also for
    those who will believe in Me through their word
    21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are
    in Me, and I in You that they also may be one in
    Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.

11
John 1722-23
  • 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given
    them, that they may be one just as We are one 23
    I in them, and You in Me that they may be made
    perfect in one, and that the world may know that
    You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have
    loved Me.

12
Romans 155,6
  • 5 Now may the God of patience and comfort grant
    you to be like-minded toward one another,
    according to Christ Jesus, 6 that you may with
    one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father
    of our Lord Jesus Christ.

13
Why Should We Intercede?
  • 1. God commands it.
  • 2. By doing so we invite God to act in the lives
    of others.
  • 3. By doing so we empower the saints.
  • We empower them for unity.
  • We empower them for evangelism.

14
2 Thessalonians 31,2
  • 1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word
    of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified,
    just as it is with you, 2 and that we may be
    delivered from unreasonable and wicked men for
    not all have faith.

15
Why Should We Intercede?
  • 1. God commands it.
  • 2. By doing so we invite God to act in the lives
    of others.
  • 3. By doing so we empower the saints.
  • We empower them for unity.
  • We empower them for evangelism.
  • We empower them for spiritual growth.

16
Colossians 19-10
  • 9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard
    it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that
    you may be filled with the knowledge of His will
    in all wisdom and spiritual understanding 10
    that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully
    pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work
    and increasing in the knowledge of God

17
Colossians 111-12
  • 11 strengthened with all might, according to His
    glorious power, for all patience and
    longsuffering with joy 12 giving thanks to the
    Father who has qualified us to be partakers of
    the inheritance of the saints in the light.

18
Why Should We Intercede?
  • 1. God commands it.
  • 2. By doing so we invite God to act in the lives
    of others.
  • 3. By doing so we empower the saints.
  • a. We empower them for unity.
  • b. We empower them for evangelism.
  • c. We empower them for spiritual growth.
  • d. We empower them for trials.

19
Luke 2231,32
  • 31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon! Indeed,
    Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as
    wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, that your
    faith should not fail and when you have returned
    to Me, strengthen your brethren.

20
Why Should We Intercede?
  • 1. God commands it.
  • 2. By doing so we invite God to act in the lives
    of others.
  • 3. By doing so we empower the saints.
  • 4. By doing so we improve society.

21
1 Timothy 21,2
  • 1 Therefore I exhort first of all that
    supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving
    of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and
    all who are in authority, that we may lead a
    quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and
    reverence.

22
Proverbs 211
  • 1 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord,
    Like the rivers of water He turns it wherever He
    wishes.

23
Why Should We Intercede?
  • 1. God commands it.
  • 2. By doing so we invite God to act in the lives
    of others.
  • 3. By doing so we empower the saints.
  • 4. By doing so we improve society.
  • 5. By doing so we follow the example of Jesus.

24
Hebrews 725
  • 25 Therefore He is also able to save to the
    uttermost those who come to God through Him,
    since He always lives to make intercession for
    them.

25
  • End of Part One
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