Quotes About Intercession

That prayer is a necessary duty to be performed by the Christian, and used with all other means in his spiritual warfare.

For a frequent intercession with God, earnestly beseeching him to forgive the sins of all mankind, to bless them with His providence, enlighten them with His Spirit, and bring them to everlasting happiness, is the divinest exercise that the heart of man can be engaged in.

Be daily, therefore, on your knees, in a solemn deliberate performance of this devotion, praying for others in such forms, with such length, importunity, and earnestness, as you use for yourself; and you will find all little, ill-natured passions die away, your heart grow great and generous, delighting in the common happiness of others, as you used only to delight in your own.

A Lunda slave, for whom I interceded to be freed of the yoke, ran away, and as he is near the Barna, his countrymen, he will be hidden. He told his plan to our guide, and asked to accompany him back to Tanganyika, but he is eager to deliver him up for a reward:

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

We never get so near God as when we plead for others.

Believe me, there is no more powerful means to obtain God's grace than to employ the intercessions of the Holy Virgin.

When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.

God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.

When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach God.

Faithful continued prayer is one key to answered prayer. As James expresses it, "You do not have, because you do not ask God" (James 4:2).

Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission, not only to stand in the presence of God, but also to pray for everything you need.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles

Your requests change history because your prayers change God!

The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.

There are many things God wants to do on earth and in people's lives, but if someone doesn't leap in and answer the call to pray, it won't happen.

Jesus is our Advocate before God.

American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands.

If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.

All the mighty interceding of the ages that has ever shaken the kingdom of darkness has been based upon the promises of God.