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We now entering into a month that will be enriched with God’s grace, but God has a special plan for His committed and faithful children who have been seeking Him for many unanswered petitions, prayers and requests. Over the next 15 days we will be interceding on behalf of others; while believing, trusting and waiting on God for your breakthrough, your deliverance, your healing, your miracle, your promise and everything that the Lord said in His Word shall be given to you for your faithfulness. We will start May the month of grace off with prayer that is intercessory prayer for someone else’s needs been met. Starting tomorrow we will begin a 15 –Day Intercessor Prayer Challenge. While we know that petitioning God for others will open up the windows of Heaven and pour us out bountiful benefits, consecrated blessings and divine favor from the north, south, east and west. Because, our God is in the blessing business and He will not withhold no good thing from His committed, diligent, faithful, obedient and submissive servants. I have seen God over and over again, in my personal life bless me because I have put someone else’s need before my own.
Why Should We Intercede (Pray) for Others?
Our prayer life will vary with each one of us, but faith, faithfulness, integrity, and effectual prayer can tremendously increase our capacity for influence, wherever that happens to be. The prophet Elijah teaches us we must come to God on His terms and through His means of access. The people had just witnessed the futile praying of the Baal priests, and Elijah wanted them know Yahweh was the true God who answered prayer when people come to Him according to His plan of grace. He wanted them to witness the authority and power of prayer. When we pray in public, we should never pray pretentiously, to be heard and seen of people in order to gain their approval. But, intercessor prayer is about making a sacrifice of your desires, needs and wants; and place someone’s else’s above your own.
As Christians, most of us have a general awareness that it is a good thing to pray for other people and to have other people praying for you. Why is it so important that we pray for each other because prayer really help those who need to be closer than to God and God’s will for their lives. There are many examples of intercession in the Bible and many reasons the Scriptures give for why we should pray for one another. But perhaps the most obvious reason we should intercede in pray for one another is because prayer really works.
Praying for other people is not just our religious exercise but our spiritual purpose, for every Christians that is believer in Christ.
According to Scripture, praying for other people is tremendously important to the success of any ministry, life, and walk with God. Unquestionably, God can accomplish His plans for us and others even if we don’t have a prayer team doing intercession on our behalf. Keeping this in mind, when we pray for others or one another, it helps in practical ways as well.
2 Corinthians 1:11, “You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.”
James 5:16-18, “Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.”
Philippians 1:18-21, “Yes, and I will rejoice, for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance, as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
Colossians 4:3-4, “And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should.”
Prayer displays itself throughout the Bible. If prayer is heartfelt conversation with God, then we find it as early as Adam’s interactions with God in the garden of Eden. We also see it as late as the prayer for Jesus Christ to return again in glory at the end of the book of Revelation. There are immeasurable examples of individuals offering up prayers to God within the Bible.