Intercessors must guard their hearts and motivations. Remember he is the commander in chief, not us. He directs us, our job is not to convince Him. We are his foot soldiers. Wait on him for his instructions on how to pray into a situation.
Intercession
Oswald Chambers
There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up his power in answer to their prayers.
Author Unknown
If God answered every one of your prayers, would it change anybody’s life except your own?
James I (J. I.) Packer
Jesus’ pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do. So “thy” is the keyword of the opening three petitions, and the first request of all is “hallowed (holy, sanctified) by THY NAME” – which is the biggest and the most basic request of the whole prayer. Understand it and make it your own, and you have unlocked the secret of both prayer and life
Reinhard Bonnke
April 9, 2020
There is great power through intercessory prayer. Prayer opens up God’s armory with its superior weapons. If we think we don’t need to pray, then we don’t know what we are up against.
T. S. Hegre
February 12, 2020
If the church would only awaken to her responsibility of intercession, we could well evangelize the world in a short time. It is not God’s plan that the world be merely evangelized ultimately. It should be evangelized in every generation. There should be a constant gospel witness in every corner of the world so that no sinner need close his eyes in death without hearing the gospel, the good news of salvation through Christ.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.
Robert Murray M’Cheyne
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you, sinking sinner? This alone – I have a high priest in heaven, and he can support in the hour of affliction. This alone can give you peace – I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying – when friends can do you no good – when sins rise up like spectres around your bed – what can give you peace? This – “I have a high priest in heaven.”
Corrie Ten Boom
I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts – – people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know – – my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!
N. T. Wright
We humans are called to stand at the intersection of heaven and earth, holding together in our hearts, our praises, and our urgent intercessions the loving wisdom of the creator God and the terrible torments of his battered world.