Intercessor Praying ~ ~ ~ Part 3

Quotes & notes from Rees Howells Intercessor by Norman Grubb

Things from Chapter 11 & 15. The differences, the pressing in, what it means.

The intercession is a daily obedience, a daily abiding, and a daily going through. The Holy Ghost is a divine Intercessor. It is part of His ministry on earth to "make intercession for the saints according to God's will... with groanings that cannot be uttered (Rom 8:26,27).

The Holy Ghost can only make intercession through those human temples He indwells; also that He can never intercede in any arbitrary way. But only as far as His channel can become one with Him in so doing.

A prayer warrior can pray for a thing to be done without necessarily being willing for the answer to come through himself; and he is not even bound to continue in the prayer until it is answered.

But an Intercessor is responible to gain his objective, and he can never be free till he has gained it. Once the postion is gained, tested and proved, the intercessor can claim all the blessings on that grade, whenever it is God's will for him to do so.

The secret for us to do what Jesus did requires that we believe and act on the promise that we can do what He did.

Things I seen thru out this book. Rees went to depths of experiencing the very thing he would be interceding for. He would experience the same suffering for example. Times he was called to do things out of the ordinary. Similar things like when Ezekiel could not weep for his wife, or Isaiah going naked and barefoot in the warning to Israel.

Paying the price, being a cleansed Temple for the Holy Ghost to use him. A compassion for them he served, a passion for the Gospel and mission to build the Kingdom. Being sensitive to any needs people had wherever he went. That the Father would be glorified.

He knew he had to depend on God to provide, he stood in geniune faith. Not moving because of the Spiritual attacks from the enemy trying to get him to doubt. He stood very strong in all that would try to get him to act upon his own. He kept alert to the wiles of the devil, using the full Armor of God. Binding the enemy and boldly confessing the Word of God. Jesus was his strength and Strong Tower.

From the book: Lord teach me to pray, by Kay Arthur.

Prayer guidelines: Broken down from the Lord's prayer.

Worship: Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Hollowed be Thy Name ~ Worship of the Father

Allegiance: Thy kingdom come ~ Allegiance to God's sovereignty

Submission: Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven ~ Submission to His will

Petition and intercession: Give us this day our daily bread ~ Asking for His provision

Confession: And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us ~ Confess & forgiveness

Deliverance: And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil ~ Watchfulness & deliverance

Worship: For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever. Amen

~ Worship

Prayer notes: Let us advance in our growth on our knees.

The power in prayer is from the One Who hears it. Prayer is the key that unlocks faith in our loves. Effective prayer needs both an attitude-complete dependence and a action asking belief. Prayer demonstrates our reliance on God as we humbly invite Him to fill us with faith and power. There is no substitute for prayer, especially in circumstances that seem impossible. Only believe when you ask, as if you have all ready recieved it.

Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

True prayer is nothing more & nothing less than communion with the Father. Whether you are involved in worship, intercession, petition, or thanksgiving. It is all directed to the One, God the Father.

Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Joh 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. :8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

The word "abide" means to be at home with, to dwell with. When you abide with someone, you get to know them. The condition is that you are to abide in Him, and His Word to abide in you. The condition is the key to knowing the will of God. Know His Word, His promises use the Scriptures in your prayers, and stand on them firm, meditate on them untill they are in your heart, mind & soul.

Joh 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. :14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

Jesus intercedes for us, we see here we ask in His Name.

Rom 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. :26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. :27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

As a believer, you are not left to your own resources to cope with problems. Even when you don't know the right words to pray, the Holy Spirit prays with and for you, and God answers. With God helping you pray, you don't need to be afraid to come before Him. Ask the Holy Spirit to intercede for you "in accordance with God's will".

Praying in the Spirit, can be done with understanding, you can be given revelations, instructions, sanctification and unlocking the mysteries of the Gospel. And it brings Truths into the Light.

The Holy Spirit distributes the revelation gifts so we can minister to others in a like manner as Jesus did. (1 Cor 14:4) (Jude 20) (1 Cor 12: 7-11)

Praying and worshiping in tongues edifies the believer spiritually and builds up the inner spirit. (1 Cor 14 14-15) It allows us to enter into the realm of the supernatural. We are communicating with the Lord in the nartual and supernational dimensions. Praying in the Spirit allows us to hear words of instruction, recieve revelation and may give us interpretation of what the Holy Spirit is saying. (1 Cor 14:26)

Mat 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

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.