Quotes About Intercession

In El Paso, Mercedes, Julian, and the rest of the Ramirez clan went to church and prayed Richard wouldn't be given the death sentence. In her prayers to Mary, Mercedes explained it was a big, Satan-inspired mistake, that her son could not have done the things they said he'd done, that Satan's hand was at work here. She implored Mary to speak to her son and tell him the truth.

thought that was the whole idea of the German Reformation. To abolish priestly intercession.

The question, how the saints and the Virgin Mary can hear so many thousands of prayers addressed to them simultaneously in so many different places, without being clothed with the divine attributes of omniscience and omnipresence, did not disturb the faith of the people. The scholastic divines usually tried to solve it by the assumption that the saints read those prayers in the omniscient mind of God. Then why not address God directly?

And the Church is directed to send the gospel to every creature. We pray for the salvation of all men, but not for the loss of a single human being. Christ interceded even for his murderers on the cross. Here, then, is a practical difficulty. The decree of reprobation cannot be made an object of prayer or preaching, and this is an argument against it. Experience confirms election, but repudiates reprobation.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

Forgiveness is between them and God. It's my job to arrange the meeting.

The second thing I have come to understand is that God will not suspend another's free will to answer my prayers. I can pray for someone to come to faith in Christ or buy my house or love me, but I can't expect God to make someone do these things.

God will not violate another's free will in response to my prayer.

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

Headship modeled on the headship of Christ demands a profound life of devotion and intercessory prayer.

Men, if we are not praying in detail for our wives and children, we are sinning.

What an encouragement to know that even if no one else knows our needs and is praying for us, Christ does and is.

things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer

nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in

It's very hard to think negative thoughts about someone you're taking to the Lord every day. You'll be amazed at how God will change your heart toward that person; your thoughts and ultimately your actions could very well change the way he behaves.

If we are trusting God to bless us through those who are in authority over us, yet we aren't praying for them - it's as if we're not praying for ourselves.

James 4:2 tells us we have not because we ask not! We can be bold in our asking.

Real prayer begins when we enter into such communion with Him, that the Holy Spirit can pray the will of the Father through us.

Intercession, that is, intrusion into the courts of power on behalf of another, is central to the church's action in prayer.

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that!

Who are you thinking about? Who are you thanking God for? Who has needs that you can bring before the Father with joy?