Spirit of Prayer
Part 5

Eph 6:18  1 Tim 2:1-2

I. Prayer of Intercession
    A. Prayer is like sports - different sports have different rules.
        1. Same applies to prayer, different prayers have different rules
    B. “Intercession” - The act of earnest appeal.
    C. “Intercede” - to mediate, intervene, or to plead on behalf of another.
    D. Rev. Kenneth E. Hagin says “intercession is standing in the gap in prayer between a person or persons who have provoked judgment on themselves.”
    E. The act between two parties, reconciling them both.
    F. God is seeking someone to stand in the gap  (Ezekiel 22:30-31)
    G. Intercession is the mediating, going between or pleading for another, representing one party to another.
        1. It can involve going to God for someone or standing against the devil for someone as well, it is “the going between” of two parties.
    H. Intercession involves - authority, delegation and representation.
        1. We are ambassadors for Christ and the Kingdom of God (2 Cor. 5:20-21)

II. Intercession in the light of creation and the fall of man.
    A. Adam was God’s intercessor on the earth but he failed.
    B. God sent Jesus as the last Adam - to be the ultimate intercessor/mediator/advocate and High Priest.
    C. There was a need to for someone to represent God to Man
        1. Jesus was both God to Man, and Man to God. (Heb. 3:1)

III. Our place of intercession
    A. Love is the heart of prayer offered on behalf of another (Rom. 5:5  John 13:34)
    B. We are God’s representatives on earth and we have the authority and power to stand in the gap on behalf of someone else and see results of Intercession.
    C. When prayer warriors intercede, they forget their own need.
    D. There is no higher place in prayer then an intercessor who participates in the redemption of a lost soul.
    E. Our prayer doesn’t save the sinner but serves to prepare the heart for the Word.
    F. Salvation doesn’t come except on the wings of somebody who prayed ahead of time.
    G. In intercessory prayer we will find the key to freedom for those that are in bondage. (Isa. 66:6-7)
    H. It is our responsibility to travail.
        1. Webster’s dictionary defines travail as to toin or labor in childbirth.

IV. Intercession of Abraham  (Gen. 20:7)
    A. Abraham’s intercession held back judgment and darkness.
    B. Intercession will be your key to success on the mission field
    C. Abraham interceded for Sodom and Gomorrah. (Gen. 18:16-33)
    D. A cry of faith will bring God on the scene; Abraham got bold with God.
        1. Definition of “invoke” - to call forth, put into operation, to bring about.
    E. Sin provokes God and calls forth wrath and judgment.
        1. “provoke” = to incite to anger, call forth, bring on and to stir up on purpose.