Intercession is the highest expression of love. It is loving in the spirit and applying spiritual power for another person. It will overpower the evil influences that have bound that person. Your prayer may be for salvation, healing or any other area of deliverance from Satan.
Second Corinthians 4:3-4 says: “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
Satan has blinded the minds of those who have not received the gospel. Your intercessory prayer wrestles against evil spirits that have deceived them. It is literally giving yourself, your time and your life for others.
Jesus said, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). This is the God kind of love. It is unselfish. The world did not know this kind of love until Jesus came to the earth.
He laid down His life to come to earth and live as a man. He emptied Himself of His divine privileges and fulfilled His earthly ministry as a man filled with the Holy Spirit:
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
(Phil. 2:7-8)
Love also motivated God to send Him: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
Jesus’ love for the Father impelled Him to obey. He said, “My meat [food] is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work” (John 4:34).
Jesus has provided reconciliation between God and man through His substitutionary sacrifice at Calvary. We are co-laborers with Him. Redemption was bought with a high price.
Jesus didn’t take it lightly, and neither should we. God’s heart was hungry for a family. Jesus freely gave Himself for this desire. What an act of love!
God’s heart is still hungry. He yearns to have every sinner restored unto Himself through the new birth; he wants every believer in close fellowship with Him. This can be accomplished through intercessory prayer! It is our duty to intercede on behalf of others.
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For the last 50 years Kenneth and Gloria Copeland have been passionately teaching Christians all over the world how to apply the principles of faith found in God's WORD to their lives.
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