Quotes About Intercession

How often we say prayers, but how little we really pray! May God make us worthy of doing the work for each other.

In love to our brothers, we have the evidence of love to the Father, the basis of confidence before God, and the assurance that our prayer will be heard.

blessing. I pray earnestly that our gracious Lord

There are two sorts of prayer: personal and intercessory. The latter ordinarily occupies the lesser part of our time and energy. This may not be. Christ has opened the school of prayer specially to train intercessors for the great work of bringing down, by their faith and prayer, the blessings of His work and love on the world around. There can be no deep growth in prayer unless this be made our aim.

Once again. It is only love that can fit us for the work of intercession.

When there is little prayer that can be answered, the Father is not glorified. It is a duty for the glory of God to live and pray so that our prayer can be answered. For the sake of God's glory, let us learn to pray well.

Two intercessors, Christ the Advocate above and the Holy Spirit the Advocate within, are the gifts of His love.

Let us each find our what our work is and which souls are entrusted to our special prayers.

There is a twofold use of prayer: the one is to obtain strength and blessing for our own life; the other is intercession - the higher, true glory of prayer for which Christ has taken us into His fellowship and teaching. This is where prayer is the royal power of a child of God who exercises in heaven on behalf of others and even of the kingdom.

If once believers [p 138 ] were to awake to the glory of the work of intercession, and to see that in it, and the definite pleading for definite gifts on definite spheres and persons, lie our highest fellowship with our glorified Lord, and our only real power to bless men, it would be seen that there can be no truer fellowship with God than these definite petitions and their answers, by which we become the channel of His grace and life to men.

The relationship among the members of the church depends on united and unceasing prayer. This relationship is spiritual and can only be maintained by unceasing prayer.

In every prayer the triune God takes a part—the Father who hears, the Son in whose name we pray, and the Spirit who prays for us and in us. How important it is that we are in right relationship to the Holy Spirit and that we understand His work!

And we – you, my reader, and I – may have the privilege of offering ourselves to God to labor in prayer and bring down these blessings to this earth.

Nothing delights Him more than to find those whom He can take with Him into the Father's presence, whom He can clothe with power to pray down God's blessing on those around them, whom He can train to be His fellow-workers in the intercession by which the kingdom is to be revealed on earth.

As He makes us partakers of His righteousness and His life, He will of His intercession too. As

Here on earth the influence of one who asks a favor for others depends entirely on his character, and the relationship he bears to him with whom he is interceding.

And yet it is the highest privilege of a child of God, the mark of greatest nearness and likeness to Him, as he ever lives to make intercession (Hebrews 7:25). Do you doubt that this is so? Think of what constitutes Christ's role as our High Priest. First, there is the work of the Old Testament priesthood. This has two sides: one is Godward, the other manward.

The power of the church truly to bless, rests on intercession – asking and receiving heavenly gifts to carry to other men. Because this is so, it is no wonder that where – owing to lack of teaching or spiritual insight, trust in our own diligence and effort, the influence of the world and the flesh, and that we work more than we pray – the presence and power of God are not seen in our work as we would wish.

He wants His children to link the world to the throne of God through intercession. What

We know why: He who prays is our Head and our Life. All He has is ours and is given to us when we give ourselves all to Him. By His blood, He leads us into the immediate presence of God. The inner sanctuary is our home where we dwell. And He that lives near God and knows that He has been brought near to bless those who are far away cannot but pray.

It is as we daily hear God's call, and put [intercessory prayer] into practice, that the consciousness will begin to live in us, that we too, are intercessors; and that we shall feel the need of living in Christ and being full of the Spirit if we are to do the work of the intercession aright. Nothing will so test and stimulate the Christian life as the honest attempt to be an intercessor.

Nothing will so test and stimulate the Christian life as the honest attempt to be an intercessor.

The measure of believing and continued prayer will be the measure of the Spirit's working in the church. Direct, definite, and determined prayer is what we need.

The attempt to pray constantly for ourselves must be a failure; it is in intercession for others that our faith and love and perseverance will be aroused, and that power of the Spirit be found which can fit us for saving men.