06/09/2019
TreasureInTheWordDevotional
Friday 06/09/2019
Topic: POWER OF INTERCESSION
TEXT: Ezekiel 22
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Message:
Intercession is an act of mediating between God and man. God expects people to stand between him and a nation, man, kingdom, generation in order to avert evil against such nation, man, kingdom, generation. etc. Those mediators are called intercessors, if there is anything our generation is lacking today it is intercessors, men that can stand between God and the land.
We have preachers, teachers, healers, prophets etc but we are in lack of intercessors. Intercessors are like pillars in the house, you don't see the pillars but they hold the house. They may not be recognised, celebrated but their works are too important.
They are men and women that change the course of their generation through their intercession. Let's start with Abigail; she averted the evil that was determined against her husband and her entire household through her intercession.
1Sam 25 :17-34
17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
20 And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.
21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
27 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid
32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
33 And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
34 For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
To intercede for a man, Nation, kingdom etc you must have passion for the people. You must put yourself in their shoes. You must assume you are the one in that need, that will enable you to take their needs to God as an intercessor. Jesus Christ became our sin in order to deliver us from sin and gave us His righteousness.
One of the things we must learn from Abigail is her choice of words. An intercessor must know how to chose words when interceding for a nation, kingdom.etc.
She was able to convince David not to destroy her husband and her entire household.
For you to intercede for a man, nation, kingdom you must convince God why such evil should not come upon the people you are interceding for or why He should deliver them.
PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY:
I see you taking responsibility of an intercessor today; you are the man God is looking for!
PRAYER FOR THE DAY:
Lord, today I receive grace to intercede for my generation.
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