TNP– December 13, 2012 I will wait for the Lord - Intercession

December 13,  2012  I will wait for the Lord - Intercession

We started with a couple of casting crowns songs and then played through “Revival in Belfast” CD. Ending with a couple of Vineyard songs Breathe and This is Love.

We worshipped along with the Cd on the chorus of This is Love.

I bow down to the Holy One

I bow down to the Lamb,

I bow down to the Worthy One

I bow down to the Lamb.

I wanted to share from My Utmost for His Highest, However I left my book at the office along with the text written out for Psalm 130 which I felt both were for our group tonight.

Psalm 130:1-8

Out of the depths I cry to You, O’ Lord!

O’ Lord hear my voice

Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy

If You O’ Lord, kept a record of sins

O’ Lord who could stand?

But with you there is forgiveness

Therefore you are feared

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits

And in His Word I put my hope

My soul waits for the Lord, more than the watchman wait for the morning, more than the watchman wait for the morning.

O Israel put your hope, in the LORD,

 for with the LORD is unfailing love

And with Him is full redemption

He Himself will redeem Israel from all their sins.

Luke 18:1

Men always ought to pray and not lose heart.

My Utmost for His Highest Dec 13 page.

You cannot truly intercede through prayer if you do not believe in the reality of redemption. Instead, you will be simply turning intercession into useless sympathy for others, which will only serve to increase the contentment they have for remaining out of touch with God.

True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until YOU are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance.

Intercession means to “fill up…{with} what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ” (Col. 1:24) and this is precisely why there are so few intercessors. People describe intercession by saying, “it is putting yourself in someone else’s place” That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God’s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.

As an intercessor, be careful NOT to seek too much information from God regarding the situation you are praying about, because you may be overwhelmed. If you know too much, more than God has ordained for you to know you cannot pray; the circumstances of the people become so overpowering, that you are no longer able to get to the underlying truth.

Our work is to be in such close contact with God that we may have His mind about everything, but we shirk that responsibility by substituting doing for interceding. And yet intercession is the only thing that has no drawbacks, because it keeps our relationship completely open to God.  

What we must avoid in in intercession is praying for someone to be simply “patched up.” We must that person completely through into contact with the very life of God. Think of the number of people God has brought across our path, only to see us drop them! When we pray on the basis of redemption, God creates something He can create in no other way than through intercessory prayer.

We prayed that we would honor the word of God. I mentioned the verse in Amos about a famine of the Word.  The days are coming declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine throughout the land—not a famine of food or thirst of water. but a famine of the Word of the Lord. 

We prayed for Peter M, and a friend of Jeff W for a new heart. Andy mentioned that the natural medical community requires that someone else die (a donor) before a new heart can be given…I told Andy someone already died so she could have a new heart…Jesus!