Intercessors Quotes

• History belongs to the intercessors

  Walter Wink

  Walter Wink (2010). “The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium”, p.185, Harmony

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• To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along with tears. Can one be moved with compassion and not know tears? Jeremiah was a sobbing saint. Jesus wept! So did Paul. So did John. Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern Christianity, praying is foreign.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Strong, Prayer

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• Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with Him that we have His view concerning the people for whom we pray. May we learn to intercede so wholeheartedly that Jesus Christ will be completely and overwhelmingly satisfied with us as intercessors.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Prayer, Views

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.201, Discovery House

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• Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

  William Cowper

  Prayer, Devil, Knees

  William Cowper, “Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer”

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• 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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• The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.

  John Mott

  Christian, Prayer, Giving

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, People, Christian Inspirational

  Corrie Ten Boom, Pam Rosewell Moore (2004). “Life Lessons from Corrie Ten Boom”

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• God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].

  Thomas Brooks

  Jesus, Prayer, Hearing

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• All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

  John Henry Jowett

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Men

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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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• How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls who have the power to bless, for they intercede with sanctified hearts. They never begin their daily time of intercessory prayer without having first brought to the cross all that is unholy in their lives, so that their old self can be crucified there with Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb.

  Basilea Schlink

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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• Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Asking, Kingdoms

  Charles Spurgeon (1997). “Praying Successfully”, p.23, Whitaker House

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• Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.

  Paul the Apostle

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Kings

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• The one thing that is said to have surprised God is that the voice of intercession had ceased. 'And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor' (Isaiah 59:16).

  Samuel Chadwick

  Men, Voice, Saws

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• No man is greater than his prayer life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Christianity

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.25, Bethany House

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• Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Men, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Christian Character through Divine Guidance, Suffering, Peril, Prayer, Loneliness, and Patience”, p.158, Discovery House

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• Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

  S. D Gordon

  Prayer, Doe, Purpose

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• No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Fashion, Prayer, Passion

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• The believer who feels the agony caused by rebellion will grow to become the best intercessor.

  Max Anders

  Agony, Rebellion, Grows

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• Intercessors constitute the greatest unseen group of spiritual heroes in world history. Their labors are not seen, but the results are. Those who pray for the spiritual needs of others do immeasurable good in the world, often preventing (at least for a time) divine judgment.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Hero, Unseen

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• Jesus lives! the same comforting, helping, instructing, loving Elder Brother, as when John leaned on His bosom, as when He lifted Peter up from the waves, as when He dried Mary's tears with His, "Thy sins are forgiven thee." Jesus lives! the same almighty Saviour, Guide, Intercessor, as when He ascended to glory with the broken fetters of sin and death in His pierced hands.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Jesus, Brother, Hands

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 94, 1895.

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• History belongs to the intercessors, who believe the future into being. If this is so, then intercession, far from being an escape from action, is a means of focusing for action and of creating action. By means of our intercessions we veritably cast fire upon the earth and trumpet the future into being.

  Walter Wink

  Believe, Mean, Fire

  Walter Wink (2010). “The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium”, p.187, Harmony

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• The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now it has become his prayer for all time...we understand how the Psalter can be prayer to God and yet God's own Word, precisely because here we encounter the praying Christ...because those who pray the psalms are joining in with the prayer of Jesus Christ, their prayer reaches the ears of God. Christ has become their intercessor.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Prayer, Book

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• Although God's people find many successes in the world, they must not fall prey to a spirit of pride. We succeed not because of our moral superiority but because of the faithfulness of our divine intercessor and because of the great mercy of God.

  Max Anders

  Fall, Pride, Mercy Of God

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• When I know that Christ is the one real sacrifice for my sins, that His work on my behalf has been accepted by God, that He is my heavenly Intercessor - then His blood is the antidote to the poison in the voices that echo in my conscience, condemning me for my many failures. Indeed, Christ's shed blood chokes them into silence!

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Real, Sacrifice, Blood

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