Restoring the Priestly Role of Intercession

1 Peter 2:5 NKJV

5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Revelation 5:10 NKJV

10 And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.”

Prayer is not an activity

Prayer is not an application

Prayer is life in Jesus.

Once you see Jesus....,

Once the blinders fall away from your eyes in the glory of His presence...

Your attitudes about prayer will totally change!

It’s not a hard task!

It is a joy!

It’s called life in the kingdom.

Every believer is called to be a priest unto the Lord today.

There is no greater duty a believer can perform than prayer!

It is the chief function of the NT believer-priest today.

Hebrews 4:15 NKJV

15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.

The only way we can genuinely and effectively intercede is out of a heart of compassion, contrition, and desperation, from a heart that pounds with the sufferings of others as though they were our own..

We can remove blockages....

This form of intercession is a lost art in modern-day materialistic and success-oriented society.

We need more people with a heart like the apostle Paul, who wrote in the anguish of a true intercessor:

Romans 9:1–3 AV

1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Isaiah 57:14–15 NKJV

14 And one shall say, “Heap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way, Take the stumbling block out of the way of My people.” 15 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

A Holy Bulldozer!

2 Corinthians 2:10–11 AV

10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; 11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

1 Corinthians 9:26 AV

26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

The Lord wants to teach us to pray with great power and effectiveness....

He wants to teach us to “remove the legal basis for the demonic powers of the air to remain,” so every devilish obstacle will be removed.

John 4:35 NKJV

35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!

In a real sense, we don’t have to ask God for a burden.

If we will truly lift our eyes to see with God’s eyes, our vision is going to be filled with the horrifying condition of hurting, people who are separated from Christ!