Intercession

Prayer releases God's power and the devil doesn't want us to pray and will discourage in all ways he can.  He wants us to feel that our prayers are too short, too weak to have real effect upon matters so large and important.

God's ways are not always our ways.  Divine process and plan are often beyond our limited scope of understanding.  Wrong motives can be another source of difficulty in intercessoary prayer.  If we are praying only out of a legalistic sense of duty, our effort will soon become a lifeless burden.  True intercession must come from a heart and mind which is motivated and directed by the Holy Spirit.

Wrong methods can also defeat our desires for prayer.  If he can't keep us from praying, he wants our prayers to be so vague and general we wouldn't know if God answered them.

When our motives or methods are wrong, we quickly become discouraged and give up.  We are then left feeling guilty and helpless.  We just don't know aht to do.

For these reasons, we need to know what real intercession is and how it works in a personal and practical way.




Rev Dr. Ronnie Ng