Quotes About Intercession

We have not yet learned that we are more powerful on our knees than behind the most powerful weapons that can be developed.

God urges us to bring our concerns to Him—not just petitions about our own needs, but also intercessions for others. [The apostle] Paul said . . . "Brothers, pray for us" [1 Thessalonians 5:25 NIV].

Far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you" (1 Samuel 12:23). Never stop praying, no matter how dark or how hopeless it may seem. Ask the Lord to help you pray that all you ask may be for the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the power of prayer.

Esa es la clase de apoyo más importante que se necesita. Si sus sueños provienen de Dios, siempre necesitarán la intercesión. Las personas de oración, como las parteras, ayudan a dar a luz a las promesas milagrosas en su vida. Harán que los obstáculos que enfrente sean más tolerables.

We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.

Prayers, also, are of avail to procure those things which He foreknew that He would grant to those who offered them.

He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will" (Romans 8:27).

Saint Bridget said she was sorry to hear it. But I do not think I am the proper person to help you. I look after milkmaids and dairymen. I encourage the butter to come and the cheeses to ripen. I have nothing to do with cheese that has been eaten by the wrong person. Saint Nicholas looks after thieves and stolen property. Or there is Saint Alexander of Comana who loves Charcoal Burners. Perhaps, she added hopefully, you would like to pray to one of them?

I believe that prayer focuses our human thoughts and energies, sends them to the people we're praying for. I believe that helps, in ways we can't yet understand. I believe that God hears our prayers, and cherishes them. I believe He answers by sending us His spirit, giving us strength, and peace, and insight. I don't think he responds by turning away bullets and curing cancer. Though sometimes that happens.

Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers. When we unite in prayer, there is incredible power.

We are nowhere more together than in prayer with and to the Mother of our Lord.

Prayer for others, therefore, cannot be seen as an extraordinary exercise that must be practiced from time to time. Rather, it is the very beat of the compassionate heart.

The Father said no, despite the unfathomable love He had for His Son, because He knew He could not spare His Son and save a world. Likewise, the Lord cannot always spare you and your family and complete His redemptive work in those around you. Are you willing for God to deny your pleadings? Will you intercede with the Father so deeply and intimately that even in the midst of your tears you are able to say, "Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done"?

The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest.

We are also brought into the church-community as a result of Christ's death on the cross—a community of the forgiven, who should be quick to forgive, a community of those who have been interceded for and should be, likewise, quick to intercede, and a community whose burdens have been lifted and who should be quick to bear the burdens of others. Bonhoeffer

A congregation that does not pray for the ministry of its pastor," Bonhoeffer warns, "is no longer a congregation."11 He then adds, "A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is no longer a pastor."12

Every generation needs courageous believers who will trust God at His Word and pick up the baton of intercession, continuing the powerful legacy of faithfully standing in the gap and seeking His heart in prayer.

What would happen if believers and churches today followed the great people of the Bible and in Christian history and began to pray powerfully and effectively?

A.C.T.S.—Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication.

There have been times that I have taken prayer cloths that have been anointed as a point of contact. I put them in my loved ones sneakers, I put them under their bed. I put them on parts of my body that I believe God for healing.

What? Even after my intercession?

I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.

A group is the right size, I would guess, when each member can pray every day for every other member, individually and by name, interceding for his personal needs as well as for the success of a particular mission. But what is to prevent twenty, fifty, one hundred such groups from springing up wherever the call is heard—each obedient to its own particular genius, each working in its different way for the coming of the one Kingdom. And

Don't pray for us. Pray with us.