ABOUT INTERCESSION
5/10/24 ABOUT INTERCESSION
Isaiah 59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
That passage means that the Father had no volunteer to step forward in the gap between the sin and iniquity, the law of repercussions and His heart. He is both severe and kind, completely jealous for our love and angry with the mess that the devil and mankind has done. Therefore He sent Jesus to be our Deliverer from such, and through His righteousness, and His following through with a righteous life, it SUSTAINED the Father!!
As followers of Jesus, we too choose to stand in the gap and that too sustains the Father! What an amazing place to be able to minister to Him.
SUSTAINED
Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary
סָמַךְ camak (çâmak)
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סָמַךְ çâmak, saw-mak’
a primitive root; to prop (literally or figuratively); reflexively, to lean upon or take hold of (in a favorable or unfavorable sense):—bear up, establish, (up-) hold, lay, lean, lie hard, put, rest self, set self, stand fast, stay (self), sustain.
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Lord what did You mean when you said An intercessor is who you are?
4/27/24: Intercession is not just being an intercessor that prays. Intercession is who you are. It pours out of your pores. It is there everywhere. You cant hide it, you cant stuff it.
It’s what I plant inside of you. Yes the engrafted word. It is even what has molded and shaped your life. Also you have carried the burden of the Lord. Assignments come and go in seasons.
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TEACHING: As intercessors, from what I understand and experience in the above is that He creates us and prepares us to partner with Him by shaping our entire life to finally walk in what He planned since before we were born. That is what He called EQUIPPING us for ministry.
I remember when I was still a toddler when Anna would cry, my eyes would fill with tears and I would run up to her and hug her and comfort her! That was who I was. No one taught me to do that, it was an expression of the empathy, the compassion to identify with her heart and want to help her feel better. I felt her pain and it made me cry. I was equipped with empathy and compassion from birth.
Another example about it being “who you are”: When I lost some data regarding websites, it took so, so much labor. When I was on my last week of doing hours of labor, ofcourse I was so disheartened. As I was rebuilding, I heard the Lord say, Do you know why I chose you for this job? As I paused, I heard Him say, It is because you CARE. I immediately knew others would not be able to face it and would have just thrown in the towel. There is no way I could quit after so many years of investment. Yes I cared.
Here is a great example that I remembered this week. When I moved Anna up here, I drove 5,6,7 times a week to pick her up for the afternoons and then bring her back for her dinner at asst living. We almost always took the same route. One day I noticed someone had been working in their yard and left a little black cup on the corner of their yard.
Twice a day I looked at this cup and wondered why it was still there. Many times I thought about stopping the car, picking it up and then knocking on their door, just because it bothered me to be misplaced. Finally towards the end of a whole year, I started praying, OH LORD HELP THEM GET THEIR CUP!!!
So Anna graduated and I stopped going that route for errands. About a year after all of this took place, I drove by and noticed that cup was still there. Suddenly I realized that cup was not a cup, but a sprinkler head!!!
This week as I was laughing at that “cup” as I drove by, I realized that I was probably the only one in the world that prayed over a lost cup that was a sprinkler head. He pulled the veil off my eyes to let me see how much I cared about details and that He created me to be like that.
Another example of the above is when He gives us assignments. They start by our hearing or seeing His Word as His seed. And then we water through prayer, tongues, keeping His Words, waiting (travail) and expecting His Word to manifest. We are intercessors over each engrafted Word that He plants within us. We labor over our part until it comes full circle and comes to pass on earth. Not everyone Who hears/ sees is an intercessor. Sometimes others are called to intercede over what was given to another. Sometimes many people are called to carry a portion of that seed as it bears fruit, then replanted for a larger crop.
And the burden of the Lord – those are times where we are touched by what He feels. We are human and not able to carry those burdens. But we cannot help but express them when they come. Sometimes tears, sometimes tongues, sometimes great inner pressure and groans, sometime powerful decrees and prayers. Sometimes all of it.
10/05/23 EXPERIENCE THE BURDEN OF THE LORD
Today on my walk as I began praying and pouring out my heart, I began suffering terribly with the burden of the Lord. It was like I was giving birth. I was so, so, so desperate it was like I could not hold on any more, I could not wait anymore. My heart was breaking, I was wrenching inside. I cried out from the deepest part of me, I poured out my heart about many things in how they related to the burden I was feeling.
Finally in absolute climax, I said it over and over again, I cant carry it any more, the burden is Yours Lord, the burden is Yours!! I placed it all back into the Lord’s lap and released the burden as I couldn’t hold back anymore.
It was like giving birth, so extreme, so climaxing. My heart was breaking and then suddenly it wasn’t! By the time I got home I was perfectly fine. No pain, no tears. I knew what I had experienced was totally supernatural.
Being an intercessor is merely being an advocate for what we care about. It is going to the Lord for help and pleading what we feel to Him. Sometimes we feel it, something we speak it, sometimes we cry it, sometime we groan it and sometimes we write it. Sometimes are given assignments where we walk out what we are hearing/ seeing in our natural life and it bears fruit for others because of death to self. Most of all we WAIT on the Lord over what we interceded for, which at times can be extreme travail in the waiting.
Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Being an intercessor is not about performance, an audience, a kudo from man, or about trying to find a way to measure success. If the Lord opened our eyes to the amount of fruit we were bearing through our sufferings, then we would no longer be meek and walk in humility. He shares with us just enough to establish our faith that we are indeed working directly with Him and giving HIM pleasure, and then we are left in the dark to get to see all the results until we are in heaven some day!
We just cant measure whether we are a good intercessor or a bad one. We just do our best to walk with HIM as our Friend, where we are seeking to partner with Him and express what His Spirit is saying within us. He will give us what we need to keep going and following through with the part He gives us to play… That precious part where heaven kisses earth and earth reciprocates in expressions back to Him. Even paintings, dance and all of the arts can be intercessions as we express the part He gives us to express. As He said, intercession is WHO we are…. not just what we do!
