This series on intercessory prayers is based off my handwritten notes, which I took as I attended a church conference on this topic in Aug 2024.

Introduction:

• Intecessory prayers are not normal prayer meetings
• There are many examples of intercession in the Bible, like Moses interceding for Israel’s sin of idolatry at Mount Sinai
• But the first time we see “intercession” is Isa 53:12: He made intercession for transgressors
• Intercessory prayers is totally unselfish, it’s always about someone else
• Intercessors are tired easily, as they carry a burden (someone else’s burden), not designed for them to carry

Elaboration on Bakah (Weep):

• Bakah: Like a train with 2 modes, slow, or fast (please refer to Intercessory Prayers Pre-Session: Double Anointing)
• Intercession is thus like a train running on these 2 rails
• The 2 meanings of Bakah, in greater details are
• a. Strong Prayer (‘fast’):
• Meaning: Collide, incredible impact, rushed against each other
• Also means to encroach, like a lion rising up on it’s prey
• Sometimes it’s not about following the culture, but allow the Holy Spirit to lead us when we have to shout we do
• And it is amazing that the Almighty God, chooses to work through weak channels like us too
• Do not look at spiritual warfare, with your own capacity, and feelings
• If Satan can get us to focus on our feelings, that we are weak (and we’re sure to find many areas of weaknesses), then we have lost
• b. Silent Prayer (‘slow’):
• Meaning: Invade, come in together / between
• Gentle prayer, weeping silently before God
• Sometimes we compare ourselves with the person beside us, that we don’t feel anything, while the person beside is doing this and that
• But let’s allow the Spirit of God, to move us into flexibility
• Please refer to Intercessory Prayers Pre-Session: Double Anointing article, how praying makes us broken / flexible
• We must also make mistakes, else how then would the Holy Spirit reach us how to hear His voice

Principles and concepts about intercession:

• Ezek 22:30: Intercession has nothing do with us / our family, but the land
• We stand before God on behalf of a land / place / it’s government, who is righteous and has to judge, that he does not destroy the land
• We should not pray according to our opinions too, for example what the government does we don’t like it and sometimes we pray according to that
• But we need to pray God’s word into it
• Every single prayer is like a brick to building a wall, we cannot build a wall in one day (Ezek 22:30)
• And we need to rally more people to pray, especially for something important
• Do not pray a crisis prayer, or be engaged with crisis prayers, where we have a prayer list of all the problems
• The moment the crisis is alive, the prayer room is full, but when it’s dead the room is empty
• We have the power to stop enemies before our hand, and even turn a curse around (even though Gen 12:3 says those who blesses us shall be blessed, and whoever curses us shall be cursed)
• We can stop things in prayer, and we need to understand the power we have, to even move things in the Spirit realm before it manifests in the physical realm
• God can only reveal in public, what we have seen in secret (Matt 6:6)
• Whatever happens in the prayer room, God will take and magnify / amplify it in the open

Harvest and shareholders through intercession:

• Firstly, intercession belongs to the church, and every born again child of God
• He who sows sparingly reaps sparingly, he who sows bountifully reaps bountifully (2 Cor 9:6-7)
• This verse not necessarily apply to finances only, but in almost any area of our lives: love, criticism (bad), and even in prayer
• And so we should sow seeds of prayer into the lives of others, and God will reward us
• If we keep praying for ourselves, it makes us spiritually poor
• And prayer rooms are not so excited anymore, because it’s all about ourselves
• Intercession is a commitment before God, regardless of our credentials, vocations or ministry
• If we pray for someone say their ministry, our heavenly bank account is full, and we will one day share with them alike their success too (1 Sam 30:24)
• David just came back to the city, and was discouraged
• He was praying if he should pursue the Philippines
• And the men wept until they had no power to weep anymore (v4)
• The people wanted to stone David too, but he strengthened himself in God (v6)
• How did he do this? Maybe it was in Psalms: When I walk through the valley of death you are with me
• He prayed not with his emotions, but according to the Bible
• We share in reward what they achieve, when we pray for them (v24)
• We are not working for now, but towards a heavenly shared bank account
• Josh 2:18: We are a shareholder of anything we do for God, if we pray for them their ministries, and even every soul they reap
• Satan’s job is to distract us, from praying, and into people’s lives too
• But we should continue praying for others, for we are shareholders of those we pray, we share in their success / shared heavenly bank account