Hey friends, how are you today? It’s another beautiful day in my neighborhood. The sun is out in all its glory, the skies are blue, the birds, they flitter from tree to tree to play hide and seek.  The leaves on the trees each day gradually grow bigger and bigger, soon, we won’t be able to see through them.  Isn’t the cycle of renewal and growth, one of amazing beauty? Our temperature will even rise to a wonderful 70°.  It’s a beautiful day today.  How are you? 

TARDY RESPONSE

I’m sorry for the length of time, it took me to respond to the comments from my last post, I was under the weather.  I hate to be sick; the only thing I don’t mind about being ill is the pampering from my family.  Anyway, how are you? What did you do last week? 

INTERCESSORY PRAYER

Last week in our Sunday school class, we talked about intercessory prayer.  It is a fascinating topic, isn’t it? Throughout our lives, at one time or another, we can all say, someone prayed for us.  Someone prayed for our salvation, someone prayed for our health, someone prayed for our finances, or our children or our spouse.  Do you know, while Jesus was on earth, He too, prayed for us? 

JESUS PRAYED FOR US

The first time I read this verse, I was in awe.  Jesus didn’t only pray for his disciples and for his friends at the time, He prayed for His future people.  Isn’t that amazing? He prayed for you and for me.  Wow! The Prince of Peace prayed for me.  I could just stay there and bask in the knowledge, that I am so loved and so thought about, that I was prayed for by my Lord, even before I become a figment of my parents’ imagination.  Jesus prayed for me.  

THE HOLY SPIRIT PRAYS FOR US

Do you know the Spirit of God also prays for us? Yes, He does.  He knows we do not know what needs to be said, so He says it perfectly to our God, using their personal word code. Most times when I pray, I asked that circumstances that are needed for my growth to be taken away.  I pray the Lord will change other people when I am the one in need of change.  I asked for this and that material thing that I may ‘consume it on my lust’, except I don’t know so at the time.  I go before the Lord with all my needs and wants, the Holy Spirit actually asks the Lord for the ‘needs’ that I most necessarily need.  He does it perfectly every time.  He must know something, I don’t….

SOMEONE PRAYED FOR US

Then there are the people who have prayed for me throughout my life.  My friends and my family and even people I will never know, perhaps we never meet in this lifetime, they all have prayed for me, and still some, even today, perhaps even at this very moment, pray for me.  They pray that the Lord will keep me, they pray for my health, they pray to the Lord about my circumstances. They pray for me and my needs.  They spend time with the Lord on my behalf.  All these prayers go before the Lord for me.  They believe I am worth their prayers.  They don’t just think about me, they don’t just desire to give me advice or to share their experiences, they don’t just apply their ‘good works’, they go to the Lord and bring my needs to Him for me.  Because they know their words matter to the Lord.  

WHY DO THEY PRAY FOR US?

And much more, they believe and trust that their God is big enough to listen, loves enough to give, knows enough to understand, faithful enough to forgive, good enough to be gracious and merciful. They believe and trust in the greatness and the power of the Only True God.   They know and have seen for themselves His capabilities and so they trust His Word and stand on His promises.  

HOW ARE THEY ABLE TO PRAY FOR US?

They can pray for me, because they know their cares and their own problems are in the Hands of their God.  They see me because their problems are being handled by our Loving God.  Because they are confident that their Great and Mighty God has proven that He can bear the burdens of this whole world, they know that He is more than able to bear my puny burdens too.  So, they include me in their daily prayers.  

When I was younger, my mom would tell me, if someone enters my mind, pray for them because they are in my mind for a reason, even if I don’t know what that reason may be at the time.  

THE GOOD IN PRAYING FOR OTHERS

It is good for us to pray for each other.  Here are five reasons why we should pray for others.

1. Because the Lord commanded us to pray for others.
2. Because praying for others takes the focus away from our own troubles when we ‘see’ others.
3. Because we display our trust in the Lord when we pray for others.
4. Because bringing the cares of others before the Lord removes the temptation for me to boast in myself and my ‘good works’. 
5. Because I am better able to ‘help’ after I have received wisdom from the Lord.

BE FAITHFUL TO PRAY FOR OTHERS

Praying for others is a necessary part of our walk with the Lord.  It reminds us that though our path with the Lord is an individual one, we are not alone on this path.  There are others along the road to heaven. There is you and me and several millions of others in this family of God and we need each other to be successful in this walk with the Lord.  We have an enemy whose sole purpose is to derail us, but united we can stand.  Lean on me, I’ve made space for you.  Lean on me because I am leaning on the Lord.  He takes my burdens and renews me with strength, just so that I can be of service to you. 

You can lean on me.  Why do you pray for others? Who do you pray for? How can I pray for you? How are you really? 

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