intercessors in zion

Isaiah 37:2–3 (NKJV)

2 Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

3 And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of trouble and rebuke and blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth.

John 16:20–21 (KJV 1900)

20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

The process of bringing a child into this world:

First the woman concieves

What is concieved in her womb grows in it for nine months

Then finally the hour comes to bring forth to the world the child that has been in her womb for nine months.

( the critical time or hour) She needs go into labor, or travial inorder to bring forth this Child to the world. To do this there must be strength.

The church to bring forth children into the Kingdom, is the same process.

We are in the time to bring forth Children, there must be travail inorder to bring forth to the world.

Hezekiah was in disraught because, there was no one who had the stregth to travial in child birth, even though the time for Zion has come to bring forth Children.

What is the stregth of the Church that will bring forth CHildren to the world when the time comes,

The ministry of intercession, or Intercessors.

Isaiah 52:1 “1 Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean Shall no longer come to you.”

Isaiah 61:1–4 (NKJV)

1 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn,

3 To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”

4 And they shall rebuild the old ruins, They shall raise up the former desolations, And they shall repair the ruined cities, The desolations of many generations.

Isaiah 66:10–11 NKJV

10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem, And be glad with her, all you who love her; Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her; 11 That you may feed and be satisfied With the consolation of her bosom, That you may drink deeply and be delighted With the abundance of her glory.”

Isaiah 60:13 NKJV

13 “The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, The cypress, the pine, and the box tree together, To beautify the place of My sanctuary; And I will make the place of My feet glorious.

The mourners in Zion, are those who mourn for Zion.

They see the desolation, and ruined places of Zion, they see her wilderness. As a result their heart is broken and their spirit Heavey. They mourn and weep and travail in intercessory prayer unto God comes and does something about it.

Through their traivail and prayer the old ruins will be rebuild. They shall raise up the former desolations, And they shall repair the ruined cities, The desolations of many generations.

Where are the mourner of Zion, where are those who will give themselves to intercessory prayer in brokeness and travail for hours until God comes and does something about it.

Isaiah 32:9–16 (NKJV)

9 Rise up, you women who are at ease, Hear my voice; You complacent daughters, Give ear to my speech.

10 In a year and some days You will be troubled, you complacent women; For the vintage will fail, The gathering will not come.

11 Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent ones; Strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, And gird sackcloth on your waists.

12 People shall mourn upon their breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

13 On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers, Yes, on all the happy homes in the joyous city;

14 Because the palaces will be forsaken, The bustling city will be deserted. The forts and towers will become lairs forever, A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks—

15 Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, And the fruitful field is counted as a forest.

16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

The condition of Zion was dire:

instead of fruitfull field there was thorn and briers,

the houses were forsaken, The city was desered

there was nor fruit of the vine nor grain in the field

Yet Isaiah by the spirit of God picks on the women who are at ease and provocatively stirs them up to lamentation and weeping and travial in intercession for the land.

Isaiah knew that the women had something in them more than men that if they used for intercession will bring about a complete change of the situation of Zion.

Quality of women

Brokeness (sensitive to the touch of the spirit of God)

Psalms 51:17 “17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise.”

The ability to hold to things and not let go.

They are more persistant, they tend to not give up so easily.

This is no way, set in stone observation. it is general.

There are men who also can be easily broken (are sensitive to touch of the spirit of God). There are woman as hard as a rock

There are also women that ten to give up so easily and men who tend to be very stubborn in their persistance.

This is why, Though they are those who are males whom God uses in his Kingdom in the ministry of intercession, they are a minority. When God uses them he would not use them to the extent he would use the women.

So women you have that potential within you whihc God can use for his Kindgom.

Bible Examples,

The widow in Luke 18

Jesus used her as a model for the elect to imitate in prayer.

Mary weeping of the ladies in

John 11:33–36 (NKJV)

33 Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled.

34 And He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”

35 Jesus wept.

36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”

3. The gentile woman from Zion (Matthew 15:21-28)

The woman cried out to him but he ignored her and said not a word to her.

The desciples finally begged him to send her away, because she was wailing and weeping and making so much commotion.

Jesus responds and says “ I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the House of Israel)

So finally she feel before him and begged and wept, though she was called a dog yet she persisted in her desire being fullfilled so She got it.

Women who used it for Evil

The philistine wife of Samson

Judges 14:15–17 (NKJV)

15 But it came to pass on the seventh day that they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may explain the riddle to us, or else we will burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us in order to take what is ours? Is that not so?”

16 Then Samson’s wife wept on him, and said, “You only hate me! You do not love me! You have posed a riddle to the sons of my people, but you have not explained it to me.” And he said to her, “Look, I have not explained it to my father or my mother; so should I explain it to you?”

17 Now she had wept on him the seven days while their feast lasted. And it happened on the seventh day that he told her, because she pressed him so much. Then she explained the riddle to the sons of her people.

Where are those who will press God with their weeping, intercession until he does great things for zion. Until he makes the wilderness a fruitfull feild.

Delilah

Judges 16:16–17 (NKJV)

16 And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, so that his soul was vexed to death,

17 that he told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”

Sisters, God can reveal to you what he would not reveal to other, Through your pesterence you can make God do things that he would not otherwise do.

Wasted Tear

Hannah would weep and mourn for her problems but there was not answer.

She was blind to the problems that God’s temple was facing. She was weeping to have a son, God was weeping to have a son.

So when she realised the need, she promise to give the child to the Lord because she saw that he need a child more than she needed one. Then God answered and Samuel was bron, the great Prophet of the Lord.

Does God has to raise up peninah and break you through other means so that you make be broken for the things of God.

God would rather have you see the desolationa and need and break your self in the sight of God and begin to pray and interceed before God.