Intercession and Spiritual Warfare

Praying for God's Purpose to be fulfilled includes Intercession and Spiritual Warfare.

Intercession

To Intercede means to Go Between.  One who is making Intercession stands between God and a person, between God and a family, between God and a group, between God and the Church, or between God and the Nation.  The Intercessor comes before God having accurate knowledge of the condition of the person, family, group, nation, the Church on whose behalf he approaches God.

The Intercessor comes to God Asking that  the condition of the person, family, group, nation, or Church be changed.  He comes to God In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and standing on the Word of God.  Jesus said, "Whatsoever you ask the Father in My Name, He will do it..."  He asks with the faith of God that is in him; the faith to which nothing is impossible. 

So then, in making intercession for the Church, we are doing so because we have accurate knowledge of the condition of the Church.  God has revealed that condition.  Only God can change the existing condition of the Church.  We ask God to change the existing condition.  We also know God's revelation concerning the Church; what He requires the Church to be; and what He wants the Church to be doing.

Intercessors go before God, acknowledging, confession, and repenting of the sins of the Church.  They take the sins of the Church upon themselves, seeking God's forgivness, and asking God to change the situation in the Church, and to make the Church to be what He wants it to be.  They do not stop making intercession until God shows up and does even more they can ask or think.  God will sometimes test their faith by taking a long time before He answers.  But He will answer, if they faint not.

An important topic for intercession is for God to Raise Up A Man for the Hour.  If you look at great movements in the history of the Church, even back to the Old Testament, God always Raises up A Man for the Time.  When God took Ezekiel to the Valley of Dry Bones, He told Ezekiel to 'Speak to those bones......'  Then the Lord said, 'Prophesy to the wind....and say to the wind, Come from the four winds, O Breath, and breathe upon these slain that they may live.  So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.'

 It is by the Word and the Spirit as God commanded that a valley of dry bones became 'An Exceeding Great Army.'  But God had to have a Man to speak His word.  So Intercessors must Pray God to Raise up A Man for the Hour to Speak His Word, and Call for the Spirit to give life to His people, and to Raise up His People, An Exceeding Great Army.

Spiritual Warfare

The next major aspect of prayer for God's Remnant, is Spiritual Warfare.  God has an enemy.  The Church has an enemy.  The Christian Believer has an enemy.  The aim of this enemy to destroy God's Purpose.  In Spiritual Warfare, Christian Believers seek to destroy the plans and strategies of the enemy, Satan, the Devil, or whatever name we care to give him. 

God has raised up Jesus Christ to His right hand, far above all principalities, and powers, and dominions, and names, and has put all things under His feet.  God has also raised up Christian believers with Jesus Christ, and has made them to sit with Him in heavenly places, thereby putting under their feet those things which are under the feet of Jesus.  Christian believers can do all things through Christ who strengthens them.   They have faith to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.  They have weapons which are not carnal, but are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.  They have power to bind and to loose.

Christian Believers,  have been placed in a position; they have been given weapons; they have been given God's own armour; they have been given power and authority; they have been given the faith of God, and all that is necessary to defeat the enemy, to protect those who are in danger; to fight against the powers of Satan over the nations; to break down satanic strongholds; to do the works that Christ did, and greater works; to fight a successful warfare over satan's kingdom, and to release captives, and set those in bondage free.

The enemies of the Church and the Nations are not just human beings, human institutions, human technologies, and humans who have sold themselves out to the devil.  Christian Believers must also do spiritual warfare in the heavenlies.  The reason for this is that Satan assigns evil spiritual beings over nations to influence, and control national leaders, national governments, so that the whole nation comes under the influence of satanic powers.

In the time of Daniel, the satanic being over the Persian empire was called 'the Prince of Persia.'  This was not the actual human ruler of the Persian Empire, but a Satanic being assigned by the devil to have control over the human ruler, and the government.  Satan assigns his satanic princes over every nation.  If the Christian believers do not engage in warfare with those satanic princes, and call for the assistance of heavenly angels, then Satan will have his way in the nation, and we will not be in a position to criticise national leaders and govenrments.  Woe be unto the nation if Christian in that nation fail in their duty to pray for those in authority.

The enemies of Christ and the Church are in the church itself today, and their number is increasing.  They are there to hinder in every way possible, the growth of the church.  church.  They are perhaps the biggest cause in the continuing decline of churches today.  They oppose evangelism; they oppose revival; they misinterpret the Scripture; they are famous for their use of deception and lying; they are after money, position, and power.  In all of this they give the impression that they are genuine.  They are perhaps, they most dangerous force operating in the church andnagainst the church today.  It will take warfare of no small proportion to defeat them.

If we want to see God Intervene; Raise up His Church as An Exceeding Great Army, we will have to engage in unceasing Intercession and Spiritual Warfare.  Let us understand that there is no one else who can do it.  "The world itself stands by the Prayes of the Christians."