Our last blog post was on the prayer of petition and today we will be wrapping up this short series on the 3 stages of prayer. If you missed the first post of this series “What it means to Commune with God“ <— Click and catch up:)

 

The third stage of prayer is intercession. True prayer never stops with petition for one’s self. It reaches out for others because of your love walk with Christ. It is his love in you, and the love you have for the next world because of Jesus, and this one is what enables you to bow your knee in intercession for the needs of others.

 

The very word intercession implies a reaching out for someone else. Intercession is standing as a go-between, a mutual friend, between God and someone who is either out of touch with Him, or is needing special help.

Intercession is the height of prayer. It is the outward drive of prayer. It is the effective end of prayer, outward and inward. Communion and petition are upward and downward. Intercession rests upon these two as its foundation. Communion and petition store the life with the power of God; intercession lets it out on behalf of others.

 

The first two are necessarily for yourself; this third is for others. They align a man or a woman of prayer fully with God: it makes use of that alliance for others. Intercession is the full-bloomed plant whose roots and strength lie back and down in the other. It is the form of prayer that helps God in His great love-plan for winning a planet and its inhabitants back to its true sphere.

 

It will help through these blog posts to keep this simple analysis of prayer in mind.

 

Drawing from our rich Christian heritage, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life will guide you through a carefully selected array of disciplines including:

 

• Scripture reading
• prayer
• worship
• Scripture meditation
• evangelism

 

Without spiritual discipline it will be impossible to walk by love, walk in the WORD, walk by faith, and open your heart to receive blessings from above.

Guide coming soon