Intercessor Praying ~ ~ ~ Part 2

Keys from the book: Rees Howells Intercessor by Norman Grubb

Chapter 12, "What is an Intercessor? Notes & Quotes.

Intensified prayer, with great emphasis on the word "intensified." There are 3 things seen in an intercessor that differ from ordinary prayer: identification, agony and authority.

Jesus intercedes for us to the Father, the One in the heavens, on the Throne pleading for us.

Identification is the first law of the intercessor. One pleads effectively because one gives their life for those one pleads for. The Intercessor is their genuine representative, submerged self-interest in the needs and sufferings as far as possible, almost literally taking their place.

There is another Intercessor, and in Him we see the agony of this ministry; for He, the Holy Spirit, maketh intercession for us with groaning's which cannot be uttered." This One, the only present Intercessor on earth, has not hearts upon which He can lay His burdens, and no bodies through which He can suffer and work, except the bodies and hearts of those who are His dwelling place. Through them He does his intercessory work on earth, and they become intercessors by reason of the Intercessor within them.

Before He can do that he has to deal with all that is natural in them. Our bodies are the Temple, we must be yielded to deal with self, walk purified, cleansed. We must be surrendered, to the ways of Christ in thoughts, love and service. It is no theoretical death, but a real crucifixion with Christ. The self must be released from itself to become the agent of the Holy Spirit.

As crucifixion proceeds, intercession begins. By inner burdens, by calls to outward obedience, the Spirit begins to live His own life of love and sacrifice for a lost world through his cleansed channel.

Every greatly used instrument of God has been, in his measure, an intercessor. Intercession is more than the Spirit sharing His groaning's with us and living His life of sacrifice for the world through us. It is the Spirit gaining his ends of abundant grace. If the intercessor knows identification and agony, he also know authority. If it die, it bring forth fruit.

Intercession is not substitution for sin. There has only been one substitution for sin, one substitute for the world of sinners, Jesus the son of God. Intercession so identifies the intercessor with the sufferer that it gives him a prevailing place with God. A intercessor moves God, gains the objection or rather the Spirit gains it through the intercessor.

The price is paid, the obedience fulfilled, the inner wrestling's and groaning's take their full course, and then "the Word of the Lord comes". The weak channel is clothed with authority by the Holy Ghost and can speak words of deliverance. "Greater works can be done."

When an intercessor has gained the place of intercession in a certain realm. Then he has entered into "the gift of faith"; along that special lines the measureless sea of God's grace is open to him. That is the gained place of intercession.

I have read many things about praying in the Spirit. That gave Saints a open heaven and to do the greater things then these as Jesus spoke of in the Word. Doing what Jesus did. Some that have prayed for hours in the Spirit, and gaining revelations of the mysteries of the Gospel. Being sanctified in their hearts and minds in being cleansed. In the same matters Rees spoke about in dying to self. Being yielded & surrendered for the the Spirit to work through them.

Many of the things I read about these experiences, these folks had no idea how they were going to be used. Things just happened and they reacted in obedience and would do what was revealed to them to do right on the spot. Intensified praying session's as well and devotion were common grounds compared to that of the Intercessor. With fruit as a result.

The key in both of these ask and you will receive like things to praying. Is a place for the Spirit to work and use one for the sake of the Kingdom.

Psa 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: :24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.