We Are All Intercessors
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I never considered myself an intercessor. In fact, I’ve often felt a bit of shame about my prayer life. It’s not like I didn’t have people around me modeling what a healthy prayer life looked like, and providing me with opportunities to grow, but being around great prayer warriors turned out to be both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it was very rewarding to be in the presence of true prayer power, but on the other hand, it caused me to feel like I didn’t have any of my own.
This is not to say that I didn’t pray. I did—but that feeling of inadequacy kept me quiet on many a prayer call, content to touch and agree in silence, and to offer up the occasional ‘hallelujah’ or ‘amen.’ On the surface, this isn’t all that bad, until you recognize that the Spirit was always leading me to contribute more, and I was rejecting it.
Being too timid to pray is tactic of the enemy, and it shows up in our private prayer life before it shows up in public. Let’s keep it real: if we don’t believe that we are capable of praying in front of others, we probably don’t really believe we are capable of prayer at all. That’s how the enemy wins. What better way to neutralize the power of pray, than to prevent people from using it in the first place?
He doesn’t want us to pray publicly because that’s where the power is. That’s how we get to the place where can always pray, and not lose heart (Luke 18:1). That’s how we get proclaim liberty to the captives, recover sight to the blind, and set at liberty those who are oppressed (Luke 4:18). That’s how become righteous, and how our prayers achieve great power (James 5:16).
Even in the midst of the most powerful prayer warriors, there is something for me (and you) to contribute. Some revelation, insight, or sensitivity to the leading of the Holy Spirit that is entirely unique to us. The prayer of the righteous person is effective, even more so when it is carried out with boldness and conviction—and that can be accomplished whether they are charismatic or not, whether they stutter or not, whether they site the right scriptures or not, invoke the Greek and Hebrew or not, and so on.
So my mind has been renewed. I now fully embrace the role of intercessor, as we all should, and am challenging myself to walk in this role with even greater conviction and openness, as well all should. Not as a feather in my cap, though I am sure there is some reward in it, but rather to fulfill the call as a servant of Jesus Christ, and a minister of His great and wonderful gospel.
I’ve been quietly doing this weekly prayer call on Clubhouse for the last few weeks with just a couple of close friends, but now I want to do it loudly. You can join me two ways:
Clubhouse—for those that want to get closer to the action, and maybe even join me in prayers. You can join via Clubhouse app or via the website.
Substack—I’ll be doing a Live Video that can be accessed via the app or the web.
Just as important, for those that have prayer requests that they want to have lifted up before the thrown of grace, please find a way to get it to me. Email me, DM me on Substack, Clubhouse, Instagram, or any other social. Don’t be shy. Just this past week, I saw the Lord move mightily and swiftly in my business and ministry as a result of corporate prayer, and so I am already excited to hear testimonies of transformation, deliverance, and breakthrough in whatever area you might be seeking it.