Intercession Quotes

• Intercession is the truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer: no continent, no nation, no city, no organization, no office. No power on earth can keep intercession out.

  Richard Halverson

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

  "No Greater Power: Perspective for Days of Pressure".

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• To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

  John Calvin

  Powerful, Men, Our Love

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• Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Prayer, Men

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• In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Kings, Sacrifice

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• Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Discernment

  Corrie Ten Boom (1980). “This day is the Lord's”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Powerful, Men

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• You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Soul

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• Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Rain, Men

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• The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Long, Evil

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• Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Laughing, Kneeling

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• Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Mind, Praying

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.198, Discovery House

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• There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Country, Spiritual, Prayer

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• He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

  William Law

  Christian, Prayer, Happy Life

  William LAW (Author of “A Serious Call, ” etc.) (1759). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection ... The fifth edition”, p.403

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• ...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Weight, May

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.30, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, God, Christian

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• Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Talking

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

  Walter Wink

  Prayer, Believe, Future

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• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  John Bunyan

  Love, Christian, Peace

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• Intercession is God’s brilliant strategy for including the saints in ruling with Him in power. Yet, it has such great impact on us as it draws us into intimacy with God, protects with humility, transforms with holiness, anoints with power, unifies in community, releases revelation, and increases our inheritance while it trains us to rule with His wisdom.

  Mike Bickle

  Humility, Impact, Community

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• A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Fellowship, Members

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.65, SCM Press

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• Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

  John Wesley

  Giving, Heaven, Desire

  John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”

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• Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Prayer, Powerful God

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• Pray, and let God worry.

  Martin Luther

  Trust, Encouraging, Hope

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1975). “Letters”

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• Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Prayer, Men

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.96

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• If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.

  William Carey

  Prayer, Want, Kingdoms

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