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Intercession — don’t lose focus
Daniel 7 is a chapter that keeps unfolding to me every time I walk through it with any amount of attentiveness. It is significant to the time of Jesus because this is what the Jewish people are pondering and anticipating when Jesus arrives. It is also helpful because it keeps me grounded. I get consumed… consumed… with the stuff going…
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Intercession in the time of coronavirus
My reading has me moving through Numbers and Chapter 16 offers a powerful picture of what intercession looks like in the Kingdom of God. A plague was sweeping the camp of Israel and Moses instructed Aaron to take the censer and put fire from the altar in it. He was then to go out and raise it among the people.…
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Are We Angry When We Intercede?
What is prayer? What is intercession? This thought rattled my mind this afternoon: What is the nature of petitionary prayer? lt is, in essence, rebellion —rebellion against the world in its fallenness, the absolute and undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal. It is, in this its negative aspect, the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every…
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The Work of Intercession
I am working my way through Dutch Sheets book, Intercessory Prayer, with our staff at church. He lays out the work of intercession and intercessory prayer. The work of intercession is to call out on Christ, who intercedes for us. We are the ones who are to believe in the victory of Calvary. We are the ones who are to rise up…
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The Pain of Intercession
Moses offers us a picture of intercession. It is probably a picture we would rather look at and observe than imitate. Intercession is hard work. Israel stayed at the base of the mountain and let Moses do the climbing to God. Intercession calls us out. To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure…
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The Place of Intercession
One of the great pictures in the Old Testament of intercession is the story in Numbers 16. Moses and Aaron spend much of that time period on their faces before God interceding for Israel. Everything has fallen apart. The spies have returned from Canaan, but they don’t want to take the land. The people are in rebellion and want to…
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