Pray for Me: The Power in Praying for Others

The Strength and Power of Prayer

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God wants us to think like He does, and praying for others helps us to think beyond ourselves and to grow in compassion for others. God compares prayer with sweet-smelling incense that pleases Him Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. Intercessory prayer is not a numbers game.

God does not have to wait until 10 or 20 or people pray about a situation in order to intervene. He can and does act when the time is best, whether one or a million pray about it. Also, intercessory prayer is not something we should do to try to earn points with God so we can collect when something bad happens to us. Our motivation must be love—outgoing, unselfish concern. What about the person seeking prayers? Can a person ask other believers to pray for him and then find it unnecessary to pray himself?

Prayer is part of our personal relationship with God, and so we must go to Him fervently ourselves, whether or not others are praying for us. Prayer is a vital part of our communication with our loving Father in heaven. In the Bible He tells us how we can pray most effectively—in a way that pleases Him. Here are a few biblical principles for effective intercessory prayer. We should pray for our needs and the needs of others every day. God knows everything; but He wants us to come to Him with all our specific requests because He likes to hear from us and to know what is important to us.

With faith, knowing that God has all power and loves the people we are praying for. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. With a desire to help where we can. This might include physical help and encouragement. Cards, calls and visits might be helpful. It is not wrong to tell a person you are praying for him or her if it will help encourage the person. What you do in these types of situations is be guided by Him as to when to pray and how long to pray. You may end up praying just once or twice for a short period of time and that will be it.

Other times He may have you stay with a particular prayer assignment for some length of time before He will officially release you from it. This length of time could be a matter of days, weeks, or possibly months depending on the severity of the situation you may be dealing with. If someone is dying of cancer, and God is wanting to heal that person, but He is looking for a more prevailing type of prayer before He will release His healing power into the situation, you may have to stay with it until the healing is manifested by the Lord, no matter how long that may take.

I cannot stress enough how powerful this particular realm is where the Holy Spirit Himself will be the One to initiate you stepping into the gap for another person. With the Holy Spirit being God and Lord Himself, He can perfectly see into the future and whether or not someone has an unexpected tragedy about ready to hit them full force. In that testimony, a woman was prompted by the Holy Spirit right in the middle of Home Depot to go into the gap for her husband.

Her husband was just about ready to have a man walk into his office and shoot him dead in cold blood. Since this woman already knew how to do this with the Lord, she immediately went into the gap for her husband and properly prayed to God the Father to stop the impending tragedy.

But had she not been open or willing to be used by the Lord for this kind of immediate emergency, she could have easily lost her husband that day, along with the man who was going to kill him. She later found out that this person was also going to kill himself after he had killed her husband. I wonder how many Christians have gone home too early because God could not find anyone close to their situation and circumstance to stand in the gap for them as this woman did in the middle of Home Depot for her husband?

The first two verses mentioned at the top of this article are telling us that there are times that God may be looking for intercessors to step into the gap to stop an impending tragedy, but at times He may not be able to find any. So not only can the Holy Spirit give you prayer assignments that will help save other people, but He may also give you a prayer assignment that will be on someone that may be very close to you — like a spouse, one of your children, one of your parents or other siblings, or possibly one of your own close, personal friends.

When God tells us in the first two verses mentioned above that He is actually looking for people who are willing to intercede for others, you know we are talking about a major and powerful, prayer secret. I believe one of the reasons that this particular prayer secret is so powerful with the Lord is because it is such an unselfish act. You are not praying for any of your wants or needs. When you are willing to sacrifice a part of yourself and a part of your time — when you are willing to put forth some quality time and energy on behalf of another in your prayer closet with the Lord for something they may really need with Him — I believe God really gets touched and moved when He sees this kind of an unselfish act.

And being able to touch and move God in this way may just be the thing that will get Him to want to answer the intercessory prayer! For those of you who are really looking to advance in your spiritual walk with the Lord, open yourself up to Him and let Him know that you will be willing to step into the gap for another person — no matter who that person may be, no matter where that person may live, and no matter what kind of danger is getting ready to hit that person. If you let God know that you really want to tread into these kinds of deeper waters with Him, then He will take you very seriously and He will then start to guide you further into this realm through the Holy Spirit.

If you will allow God to use you in this way from time to time as different needs arise, you have absolutely no idea how many other people you may be able to save, touch, help, heal, or deliver in this life.

And this is the kind of activity that will be highly rewarded by God once you enter into heaven and He rewards you for the different kinds of works and labors that you did for Him in this life. Read below or add a comment Love the info …. Please, I humbly pray, this wouldnt be the thought. He looked upon His nation, His people, Israel. This is where anti-Semitism happens. A mixed multitude came out of Egypt — even some Egyptians.

He made a nation of those people. The term Jew is so misused. All Jews are Istael, but not all Israel are Jews. The southern was Judah, hence Jews. Or from the tribe of Judah. He looked on all His people — from every tribe and tongue. It was every tribe and tongue. Unless one be born again — whether Jew or non-Jew. We all have to come from Messiah.

Most Jews natural branch will not recognize Him until His second coming when the scales fall off their eyes….

Prayer Secret #7 – The Power of Intercessory Prayer

Please invite others to pray for this intention. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States.

We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders.

We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants. Thank you … Esmeralda.

Quite a great piece of information. But if you want to pray for someone who is not yet saved, and you want God to convert him, how do you do it and what bible verses do you use? Please pray for my salvation and my eyes to be opened to Truth. I believe there is no God and I am evil.

Pray for Others

Thanks you for standing in the gap. Maybe God will have mercy on my prideful wicked soul. Ask the Lord Jesus to save you. Believe in your heart He died for your sins and that He rose again. Repent of sins which means change your mind and stop practicing sin. Ask God to cleanse you from all and pray to Him read the Word new testament! Bless you for your humble heart and realness. God will show Himself strong in your life! I was once a prayer warrior and read the bible over and over 7 times completelet, raised my children in church. I desperately ask for prayer for Derek the one that got away, lost and confused.

I am sincerely asking for prayer for him. Please, please and thank you so much. Psalm91, thanks for the alert of the spam that is hitting us. I deleted the comments here, the Facebook ones are new but they do hava a report spam button on that. Ill have to get with my tech guy to find a way to easily track the FB spam. The comments to come into me and all first time commenters have to be approved and I also will go through all the approve comments a few times a week to make sure nothing slips through. I also ran a search and found one other spam spell comment that got through on a different article.

Thank you for these prayers! Needed to have a peace of mind. Please pray for family, that they may always keep on moving and living despite of hardships and struggles in life, especially my mother. Please pray for my husband and family relationships. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

The Scripture Verses

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,.

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you,. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison—.

And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,.

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. Pray then like this: Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Bless the Lord , O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!

Bless the Lord , O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others.

But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

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