I. Great responsibility is involved in the ministry of intercession.
A. Because the Lord God did not find anyone to “stand in the gap,” to intercede for the land, He was requited to pour out the judgment due its disobedience.
এজেকিয়েল 22:30-31
B. He would not have destroyed Sodom, because of Abraham’s persistence, had He been able to find ten righteous men in the city.
জনন 18:23-32
C. Moses’ intercession for the people of God, in pleading with the Lord for mercy, held back the hand of God from consuming the nation in His wrath.
প্রস্থান 32:7-14; দ্বিতীয় বিবরণ 9:8-9, 12-20, 23-27, etc.; Psalms 106:23
D. Because “prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God,” Peter’s “chains fell off from his hands,” “the iron gate … opened to them of its own accord,” and he was led out of the prison by an angel of God!
প্রেরিত 12:5-12, etc.
E. God told Jeremiah to search the city and see if he could find even one righteous man; that then He would spare the entire city (chapter 5:1). But Jeremiah knew that their hearts were all hardened against the Lord; that they were reprobate, beyond the place of repentance (ch. 5:3). God told him therefore to not even intercede for them (ch. 7:16; 11:14; 14:11).
II. God Himself seeks faithful intercessors.
Psalms 14:2 (2 ক্রনিকলস 16 :9) “The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children
of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.”
এজেকিয়েল 22 :30 “And l sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge,
and stand in the gap before Me for the land, যে আমি তা ধ্বংস করা উচিত নয়: কিন্তু আমি দেখতে পেলাম না।”
A. The ministry of intercession is of divine appointment.
ইশাইয়ার 62:6 “I have set . . .”
B. But it is the responsibility of each individual to take the initiative to “stir himself up
to take hold of” God.
ইশাইয়ার 64:7
C. Scripture says that God was amazed “and wondered that there was no intercessor.”
ইশাইয়ার 59:16
III. The Bible expresses in a descriptive way the very nature of this ministry and the great heaviness of spirit and burden of prayer experienced by those in intercession.
A. “Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.”
Lamentations 3:48-50
B. Job cried, “Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!”
কাজ 16:21
C. When God speaks of His intercessors (“watchmen”) and their persistence in prayer,
He says that they “never hold their peace day nor night” এবং “give Him no rest.”
ইশাইয়ার 62:6-7; Lamentations 2:18-19
D. “Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down
like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like
water before the face of the Lord …”
Lamentation 2:18-19
E. “Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar,
and let them say, Spare Thy people, O Lord, and give not Thine heritage to reproach…”
জোএল 2:17
F. Moses told the children of Israel that in his intercession for them “I stood between
the Lord and you.”
দ্বিতীয় বিবরণ 5:5; Psalms 106:23
G. যীশু “began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; and saith unto them
(his disciples), My soul is exceeding sorrowful … And He went forward a little, এবং
fell on the ground, and prayed . . .”
ছাপ 14:33-35
IV. Certain people should be the focus of intercessory prayer on a regular basis.
A. Leaders and government authorities.
I Timothy 2 :1-2
B. The people of God.
জোএল 2:12-13, 17; রোমানরা 1:9; ইফিষীয় 6:18
C. Those in spiritual leadership.
2 করিন্থিয়ান্স 1:11; I Thessalonians 5:25; হিব্রুদের কাছে পত্র 13:17-18a
1. That they may have boldness to speak the truth.
ইফিষীয় 6:19-20
2. For their divine protection, spiritual strength, and victory over the enemy.
লুক 22:31-32 ; জন 17:15; প্রেরিত 12:5; 2 থিষলনীকীয় 3:1-2
3. That they will have an open door of ministry.
রোমানরা 15:30-32; কলসীয় 4:3; 2 থিষলনীকীয় 3:1-2
D. The community in which we live, or any city or nation.
Psalms 112:6; যিরমিয় 29:7; Daniel 9:3, 16-19
V. True intercession involves more than prayer in general. The intercessor bears a sense
of burden and responsibility.
A. Great cries and tears in travail of prayer are known to those who have felt the
urgency of a burden revealed to them by God.
ইষ্রা 10:1; নেহেমিয়া 1:4; ইশাইয়ার 22:4 যিরমিয় 13:17; 23:9
Lamentations 2:18-19; 3:48-51; জোএল 2:12-13, 17; হিব্রুদের কাছে পত্র 5:7
B. It often involves fasting.
দ্বিতীয় বিবরণ 9:8-9, 12-20, 12-27; ইষ্রা 10:6; Daniel 9:3-4
জোএল 2:12-14, 17-18; দুর্ভাগ্যআনয়নকারী 3:5-10
VI. Characteristics of a successful intercessor.
A. Persistence and determination.
ইশাইয়ার 62:6-7
Lamentations 2:18-19 “keep not silence, and give Him no rest…day and night …”
B. Patience.
ইশাইয়ার 62:6-7; Lamentations 2:18-19
C. Faith.
ইশাইয়ার 64:7
D. Severe self-discipline and selflessness (due to personal identification with the need).
ছাপ 14:33-35; Lamentations 3:48-50
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