Intercessing in Prayer

"I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men." I Timothy 2:1

Our prayer for spiritual awakening will without question be most effective if we take up the work of interceding for certain individuals in particular.

We find that most of us who have been converted have had some one praying for us, some one who carried us personally to the throne of God while we were unconverted. It seems to me that no one is so poor as he for whom not a single soul is praying, he who has no one who takes him personally and persistently to god in prayer.

We should enter into this work and become personal and regular interceders for certain definite individuals. Ask the Spirit of prayer to assign to you the individuals for whom you should pray. If every believer would do this, the Spirit would distribute the unconverted in every community among the believing men and women of prayer, and ultimately there would not be a single soul but what some consecrated and faithful believe would be p raying for him.

Then it would not be easy for the unconverted to continue to live in sin! Holy spiritual explosive materials would be planted into their souls daily, and the ground blasted from beneath their unrepentant lives. - O. Hallesby

There is a place where thou canset touch the eyes
Of blinded men to instant, perfect sight;
There is a place where thou canst say "Arise!"
To dying captive, bound in chains of night.
There is a place where thou canst reach the store
Of hoarded gold, and free it for the Lord;
There is a place here, or on a distant shore,
Where thou canst send the worker and the Word.
There is a place where Heaven's resistless power
Responsive moves to thine insistent plea;
There is a place, a slight holy hour,
Where God Himself descends and works for thee.
Where is that secret place? - dost thou ask "where?"
O soul, it is the secret place of prayer!

A. A. Polard

By Charles E. Fuller & J. Elwin Wright, taken from " Manna in the Morning"