"God's purpose may be thwarted or it may be
accomplished depending, to one degree or another,
on the obedience of His people and their willingness
to use the weapons of spiritual warfare that
He has provided. God is powerful enough to win
any battle, but He has designed things so that
the release of His power at a given moment of
time often is contingent upon the decisions
and the actions of His people. A principle weapon
of spiritual warfare is prayer. Not just routine
or mediocre prayer, but prayer powerful enough
to move God's hand in order to determine the
destiny of a whole nation." C. Peter Wagner
If
we are involved in intercession, then we are working
with God to determine the future. Certain
things in history will happen through our intercession
if we pray the way God wants us to pray. We have
authority in prayer to actually see our cities
changed. In many ways history belongs to the intercessors.
When we pray, things happen in the spirit realm.
God remembers every prayer we pray, and every
one of them prayed through the power of the Holy
Spirit has effect on earth. Not one prayer is
forgotten. Last year when I was in a particular
city in Turkey, I remembered a prayer I had prayed
in that very city several years before. It was
as if at that moment, God showed me that He had
remembered my prayers from several years before,
and that it was extremely important and would
have a powerful effect in that city one day.
"Prayer
is power and strength, a power and strength
that influences God, and is most salutary, widespread,
and marvelous in its gracious benefits to man.
Prayer influences God. The ability of God to
do for man is the measure of the possibility
of prayer." E. M. Bounds
The
prayers you pray influence God. God remembers
every single one of them. Do not ever think
that God hasn't heard you or that your prayers
do not matter. One day you will see that they
have mighty effect in the spiritual realm. Do
not give up or think it is not important to pray
today. History belongs to the intercessors. If
ever there was a need for intercession, it is
now. We are in a key (kairos) time in all of history.
The Greek word "kairos" in the New Testament means
the appointed or opportune time that God has set
for something to occur. During a kairos time,
we must respond in prayer and press through in
intercession in order to see God's plan fulfilled.
We are in a time of opportunity, and we must seize
it in prayer. History belongs to the intercessors.
This is the appointed season for change and for
intercession to increase. We must not fear the
future. Instead, we must know our authority in
prayer to see powerful change on earth. We
can pray God's future plan into being through
our intercession.
"This
is a kairos time for God's people to understand
authority, for authority is the key to power.
This is a time for us to deal with the spirit
of fear that has imbedded itself into the heart
of the church. The spirit of fear creates an
unsound mind, it weakens power, and it negates
love. God has given us an awesome responsibility...
But, as we see through history, God makes the
fulfillment of His desire contingent on the
obedience of His people. Apostles, prophets,
and intercessors play a crucial role. If the
apostles, acting on the word delivered through
the prophets, effectively mobilize the intercessors,
and if the intercessors, in turn, enter into
powerful, strategic, prophetic intercession,
we in the body of Christ will truly be praying
the future into being. It will be God's best
future for us, and our nation(s) will be blessed
as never before." Chuck Pierce
Pray
for Your City
"Millions
of feeble, sickly Christians, thousands of wearied
workers, could be blessed by intercession. Churches
and missions sacrificing life and labor with
little result often lack the power of intercession.
Souls, each one worth more than worlds - worth
nothing less than the price paid for them in
Christ's blood - are within reach of the power
that can be won by intercession. We surely have
no conception of the magnitude of the work to
be done by God's intercessors, or we would cry
to God above everything to give us a spirit
of intercession." Andrew Murray
How
can you be the history maker for God's purposes
in your city? Below are some ways you can
pray for your city and make a difference. You
may want to pray these prayers for your nation,
church or neighborhood as well. Know the areas
where God wants you to intercede, because He will
give you authority in those areas. God is seeking
for intercessors. He will accomplish His will
through the prayers of His people on earth.
- Pray
that a spirit of intercession falls on your
city - If intercessors cry out for a spirit
of intercession to invade their city, people
will change and prayer will increase. Christians
who had never felt like praying before will
begin to pray. Prayer can be activated in your
city.
- Pray
for corporate worship and prayer to arise in
your city
- Pray that the church begins to come together
in corporate worship and prayer. United worship
tears down the powers of darkness in your city.
Pray for state gatherings of worship and 24/7
Houses of Prayer to be raised up.
- Pray
for the key authority structures and spiritual
leaders in your city
- Pray for all pastors and government leaders.
Pray for faith, wisdom and holiness in the leaders
in your city. Pray that God will help them to
lead His people into holy living in difficult
times.
- Pray
for God to reveal the lawless structures in
your city
- Pray that all terrorist plans and evil hidden
plans will be exposed in your city and nation.
Pray that unjust laws will be overturned. Pray
for Godly rulers in your nation to be elected
and put into place.
- Pray
for the church in your city to be empowered
by God - Pray for the churches to arise
in prayer, godliness and spiritual strength.
Pray that the Church becomes a light to the
lost in your city.
- Pray
for God to remove complacency in your city
- Pray that the churches in your city becomes
fervent and on fire for God and His ways. Pray
that complacency stops and that the Church awakes
to its destiny and calling in the last days.
"God
seeks intercessors. He longs to dispense larger
blessings. He longs to reveal His power and
glory as God, His saving love, and more abundantly.
He seeks intercessors in larger numbers, in
greater power, to prepare the way of the Lord."
Andrew Murray
History
belongs to the intercessors. Your city needs
intercessors that will cry out to Him day and
night with great boldness and expectation. God
is seeking for intercessors. Will you be one?
"God seeks intercessors. He sends His
servants out to call them. Let ministers make
this a part of their duties. Let them make their
church a training school of intercession. Give
the people definite objects for prayer. Encourage
them to make a definite time for it, even if
it is only ten minutes every day. Help them
to understand the boldness they may use with
God. Teach them to expect and look for answers.
Show them what it is first to pray and get an
answer in secret, and then carry the answer
and impart the blessing. Tell everyone who is
master of his own time that he is as the angels:
free to tarry before the throne and then go
out and minister to the heirs of salvation.
Sound out the blessed tidings that this honor
is for all God's people." Andrew Murray
For additional training in prayer, read the books
called Intercessors Arise by Debbie Przybylski.
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