The Father's Menu

The Father's Menu

Apostle Dr. Richard Udoh

Sunday, July 19, 2020

INTERCESSORY PRAYER 1

The prayer of intercession is the kind of prayer prayed on behalf of others. God has called the Body of Christ to the ministry of intercession. God does not do anything on the earth without the cooperation of a man. He intends that we work together with Him to accomplish His will. Man is still in authority in the earth, God put him in that position. Genesis 1:28 “Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." (NKJV) Psalm 115:16 “The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.” (KJV) The role of mediator in prayer was prevalent in the Old Testament, in the cases of Abraham, Moses, Samuel, Elijah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Nehemiah, and many others. Jesus is the ultimate intercessor, and because of this, all Christian prayer becomes intercession since it is offered to God through and by Jesus. Jesus closed the gap when He died on the cross, and because of that, we have a man in the Godhead constantly interceding on our behalf. 1 Timothy 2:5 “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (KJV) Romans 8:34 “Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.” (ESV)

Confession:I declare in the name of Jesus, I am an intercessory, I am a soul winner, I am a person after God’s heart, I am prosperous, I am blessed! I walk in the newness of life, glory to God I am blessed.

Further Reading:    Daniel 9:

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

² In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

³ And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

⁴ And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

⁵ We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

⁶ Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land

Daniel 10:

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

² In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

³ I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

⁴ And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;

⁵ Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:

⁶ His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

⁷ And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves...

Read through the Bible: Judges 2 & Acts 6