Chapter 9 The Power of Prayer Part 4 of 9 –3/10/14 If you are no longer excited about God, it is your own fault and not other people, because you have not yet learned to enter this level of prayer (Devotion) that says seek and you will find. Stop blaming others for where you are and take full responsibility and action for your own development. Seek Him and you will find Him with all that you would ever need to succeed in life. 3. Intercession The act of intervening or mediating between differing parties; particularly the act of praying to God on behalf of another person. This type of prayer comes as a result of the second level of devotional prayer. This is where God shares His heart and concerns to you for other people or situations. He wants to personally get involved, but He needs someone to invite Him in legally, so that He can help that person or fix the situation. When God places a burden in your heart to pray for a person, He allows you to feel how and what he is feeling about that person and He allows you to feel what that person is also feeling. So if God feels compassion for someone who has just lost a loved one, He would allow you to feel the compassion He feels for that person. And for you to pray more effectively for that person, He allows you to feel what that person is feeling, that is, the loss,anger, confusion, sorrow, etc. Your own human feelings will also get involved in what you have discerned and sometime you may react positively or negatively to what you feel. It is not what you feel, but what He wants for that person or situation. Jonah was really mad at the people at Nineveh after he felt the burden of God for that city. God wanted to save these people and he did it, because of Jonahs intercession for the city despite his own feelings. Jonah 1:1-2 1Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me Jonah 3:1-10 1And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a days journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. From the book The Supernatural Kingdom An Atmosphere of His Presence Author Pepe Ramnath, PhD mccint.org
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