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What it Means to Pray in Jesus’ Name

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Just before the end of Jesus’ life on earth He began teaching His disciples to pray in His name.  Before this time the concept was unheard of.  Prayer was always to the Father but never in Jesus’ name.  But all that changed.  And it was not a teaching that was taught nonchalantly or casually. In fact, He repeated the teaching over and over again, as to emphasize its importance.  Six times, recorded in the gospel of John, He taught the disciples to pray in His name.  And each time the teaching was with the promise that they could pray for anything, or for whatever they wished, and their prayer would be answered (Jn. 14:13,14; 15:16; 16:23,24,26).  If this was true then, and is still true today (which it is), then there is great power in the right use of His name.  We certainly need to know how to pray in…

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The Meaning of Intercession – from Moses

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Moses, like Abraham, was a great intercessor.  He was the one whom the Lord spoke to face to face just as a man speaks to his friend.

Now when Moses was upon Mount Sinai receiving Gods laws, the people down below concluded that he had died since he had been gone so long.  For this reason, they persuaded Aaron to make a golden calf; and they worshiped it, and sacrificed to it; and they corrupted themselves with alcohol and immoral activity. Here is the Scripture reference in Exodus 32:7-14:

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. 8 They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god…

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The Meaning of Intercession – From Abraham

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 Abraham was one of the first great intercessors.  When God told him that He was going to destroy the city of Sodom, Abraham immediately became concerned for his cousin Lot, and for any others who were righteous in the city.

Genesis 18:23-33

And Abraham came near and said, “Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 “Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it? 25 “Far be it from Thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from Thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?” 26 So the Lord said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I…

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The Meaning of Intercession — From Luke 11:5-13

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According to Peter Wagner’s study, from his book Prayer Shield, “Intercession is derived from the Latin inter, meaning ‘between’ and cedere, meaning ‘to go’.”1  We may conclude then that intercession means to go between or to stand in the gap for another.

Wagner also pointed out in his study that “all intercession is prayer but not all prayer is intercession.”2  Intercession is a particular kind of prayer that demands our unselfish devotion to God and to those whom we are interceding for.  It is a willingness to lose ourselves for others and for the will of God.

To further explain the meaning of intercession we will turn to the scriptures.  In this post we will look at a story from Luke that will help us see how intercession works.

 

Luke 11:5-13

And He said to them, “Suppose one of you shall have a friend…

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Four Ways Intercession Will Bless You

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“And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold” (Job 42:10).  Spurgeon comments, “Intercessory prayer was the sign of Job’s returning greatness…When Job’s soul begun to expand itself in holy and loving prayer for his erring brethren, the heart of God showed itself to him by returning his prosperity and cheering his soul within.”  What a marvelous example this is of how God rewards those who please Him by extending themselves in faith to pray for others (Heb. 11:6).  If anyone had a good excuse not to intercede for others, it was Job.  But in the end, God got a hold of his heart.  He melted down his pride so that he repented in dust and ashes (Job 42:6).  When we do the same—when we look away from ourselves, from our burdens and sorrows—then God will…

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 Globalists Rev Up Plans to Engineer Global Famine

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I’m not sure that they are doing it intentionally or not, but it will happen. Green farming methods are and will do us in. Read this article.

Hohmann: Globalists Rev Up Plans to Engineer Global Famine: 13 Nations Agree to Convert Over to Less-Productive ‘Green’ Farming Methods

By Jim Hoft Jun. 1, 2023 4:00 pm

Guest post by Leo Hohmann

The global climate cult is getting ready to kick its war on food into overdrive with 13 nations – many of them major cattle and food-producing states led by the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Spain – signing onto a commitment to place farmers under new restrictions intended to reduce emissions of methane gas.

The Global Methane Hub announced in a May 17 press release that agriculture and environmental ministers and ambassadors from 13 countries, including the United States, have signed a commitment that pledges to reduce methane emissions in agriculture. The U.S. was represented by Biden’s climate czar, John Kerry.

What does this mean and why should you care? We’ll break it down.

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According to the press release issued by these nations and posted at Global Methane Hub:

“Last month (in April 2023), the Global Methane Hub collaborated with the Ministries of Agriculture of Chile and Spain to convene the first-ever global ministerial on agricultural practices to reduce methane emissions. The ministerial brought together high-ranking government members to share global perspectives on methane reduction and low-emission food systems. The gathering led to a statement in which the nations committed to support efforts to improve the quality and quantity of, and access to, finance for climate change adaptation and mitigation measures in the agriculture and food sectors and to collaborate on efforts aimed at lowering methane emissions in agriculture and food systems.”

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Biden’s Border Chaos

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So here is the question: Is Biden’s border chaos an accident, incompetence, of intentional? Here is an article I found and put in on my blog page:

Biden’s Border Chaos Is Neither an Accident, Nor Incompetence. It’s Intentional.

Deroy Murdock / May 22, 2023

President Joe Biden became president largely by promising to Make America Normal Again.

The shambolic U.S.-Mexico “border” confirms how Biden shattered that promise. There is nothing normal about the coast-to-coast disaster over which he governs, thanks largely to his deeply abnormal definition of border security.

Under Biden, the southern “border” has become a giant, open-air staging ground from which illegal aliens bludgeon U.S. territorial integrity and national sovereignty.

U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 1,671,266 illegal aliens during President Donald Trump’s final 27 months in power. In Biden’s first 27 months, they encountered a breathtaking 5,249,144 illegal aliensup a skin-crawling 314%.

In fiscal year 2020, the last one that Trump fully controlled, 69,000 illegal migrants were detected on the “border” but got away into America’s interior. In fiscal year 2022 (entirely on Biden’s watch), “gotaways” hit 599,000—up a mind-blowing 768% versus fiscal year 2020.

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How to Carry Out Your Responsibility to Intercede

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If you want to be a faithful priest to God in this area of intercession, you must first acknowledge your total inadequacy.  Hence, you must be totally dependent on Christ and the Holy Spirit to do this great work of God.

when you get this feeling of inadequacy, thank God!  This feeling is good. For it is God’s designed way of bringing us to Him so that we may receive the necessary resources in order to intercede for others.  Just as with the man in the story who felt desperate to supply the need of his friend who had come on a long journey, in which case God did help him to seek Him and supply that need, we too may benefit from times when we feel that we desperately need His help.  For He has planned all along for us to feel inadequate and desperate so that we will…

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Our Great Responsibility to Intercede for Others

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 It is certainly clear from scripture that we have a great job ahead of us—to pray for all men.  But why must we do it? And if we must do it, how do we get motivated to do it?

 Why do we have a responsibility to intercede for people?  The answer is that God has made us responsible by making us His priests.  As priests He has commissioned us and called us to intercede for all men.

With this calling He has given us a desire deep inside us to intercede.  And so, even though we may at times regret the hard work of intercession, deep inside our soul we secretly love it.  Yes, we love to be involved with Christ in His work.  For as His interceding priests we have the glorious privilege of ruling with Him and extending His rule.  Hence, in no other way can we…

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Paul’s Prayer Request’s for His Disciples

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  1. That God would give you wisdom to see clearly and really understand who Christ is and all that He has done for you (Eph. 1:17).

  2. That your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can see something of the future He has called you to share (Eph. 1:18).

  3. That you will realize that God has been made rich because we who are Christ’s have been given to Him (Eph. 1:18).

   4. That you will begin to understand how incredibly great His power is to help those who believe Him (Eph. 1:19).

   5.  That out of His glorious unlimited resources He will give you the mighty inner strength of His Holy Spirit so that Christ may be more and more at home in your heart as you trust in Him (Eph. 3:16,17).

  6.  That your roots will go down deep into…

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