Quotes About Intercession

Scriptures reveal that two acts occur continually before the throne of God—intercession and accusation. The conflict between these two is a focal point of the battle between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness.

To the degree that we abide in Him, Jesus will use us to intercede. For this reason, His Church is called to be a "house of prayer for all the nations" (Mark 11:17). Satan is called "the accuser of our brethren…who accuses them before our God day and night" (Rev. 12:10). To the degree that the enemy has access to our lives, he will use us to accuse and criticize the brethren.

There is possibly nothing that can so radically change the Church and the lives of individual believers as having our criticisms changed into intercession

Personal prayer does not dispense us from corporate prayer. The one sustains the other.

May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.

The people who really rule the world are those who know how to pray.

It is unscriptural to pray for the sick if one is not prepared also to cast out demons. Jesus did not separate one from the other.

And that is why we sometimes have to push through enemy territory when we pray. It is not that we are praying out of the will of God, or that God is unwilling to hear us, but that we have to penetrate a hostile kingdom in the heavenlies in order to reach Him.

In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God's work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer.

Dr. E. Stanley Jones explains, "In prayer you align yourselves to the purpose and power of God and He is able to do things through you that He couldn't do otherwise. For this is an open universe, where some things are left open, contingent upon our doing them. If we do not do them, they will never be done. For God has left certain things open to prayer—things which will never be done except as we pray."4

It seems that God is clearly calling His people everywhere to prayer, and as Matthew Henry said generations ago, "Whenever God is preparing to do something great in the earth, He first sets His people a-praying!

Surely there is no higher plane for prayer than intercession. What could be more important than participating in the redemption of another being through prayer? True, our prayer does not save the sinner, but somehow it serves to prepare his heart for the moment word reaches him of Christ's love. Search for a person who claims to have found Christ apart from someone else's prayer, and your search may go on forever.

Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.

Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.

This makes it clear that intercession is also a daily service we owe to God and our brother. He who denies his neighbour the service of praying for him denies him the service of a Christian. It is clear, furthermore, that intercession is not general and vague but very concrete: a matter of definite persons and definite difficulties and therefore of definite petitions. The more definite my intercession becomes, the more promising it is.

How could one person pray the prayer of the community without being held up and supported in prayer by the community itself? At precisely this point every word of criticism must be transformed into more faithful intercession and mutual help. How easily a community can split apart if this is not done!

As far as we are concerned, there is no dislike, no personal tension, no disunity or strife that cannot be overcome by intercessory prayer. Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

Singing together [das gemeinsame Lied] joins the praying of the Psalms and the reading of the Scriptures. In this, the voice of the church is heard in praise, thanksgiving, and intercession.

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.

I've often found it a great help to think in the evening of all those who I know are praying for me, children as well as grown-ups. I think I owe it to the prayers of others, both known and unknown, that I have often been kept in safety.

When we ask God to transform those who oppose us, we are also asking God to transform us.

We dare not forget the power of prayer.

3 Y como viniese a faltar el vino, dijo a Jesús su madre: No tienen vino. 4 Le respondió Jesús: Mujer, ¿qué nos va a mí y a ti? Aún no es llegada mi hora. 5 Dijo entonces su madre a los sirvientes: Hagan lo que él les dirá.

24 Por tanto les aseguro, que todas cuantas cosas pidan en la oración, tengan viva fe de conseguirlas, y se les concederán sin falta. 25 Mas al ponerse a orar, si tienen algo contra alguno, perdónenle el agravio, a fin de que su Padre que está en los cielos, también les perdone sus pecados. 26 Que si no perdonan ustedes, tampoco su Padre celestial les perdonará sus culpas ni oirá sus oraciones. 27