Intercession
PART 1 - THE LIFE OF A DISCIPLE IS A LIFE OF ACTION
Disciples are God's best soldiers here on earth. To be a good soldier, we can't waste the deep spiritual knowledge revealed to us and not do anything with it. Our knowledge and faith MUST BE PUT INTO ACTION! This doesn't mean just for ourselves. It means for the weak, the beaten down, the suffering, and the lost! A disciple is on a continuous mission of becoming more obedient. A disciple is also on a continuous mission of spiritual intercession for others, making new disciples along the way.
Disciples like to teach people about God's ways. Disciples want people to realize their natural ways are not righteous, only His ways are. When people realize this and repent, magic is about to happen! When Jesus sees sincere repentance He is eager to move in His supernatural power through the Holy Spirit. That's when demons can be cast out and people can be healed. This is God's will. It most often happens when a disciple intercedes for someone.
When a disciple is given revelation by the Holy Spirit, He's expected to put it to use. Woe to the unprofitable servant, the disciple who covets his supernatural knowledge and doesn't utilize it. “For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them. And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey. Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. And likewise he who had received two gained two more also. But he who had received one went and dug in the ground, and hid his lord’s money. After a long time the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them. “So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more talents besides them.’ His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ He also who had received two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents; look, I have gained two more talents besides them.’ His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ “Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed. And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’ “But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. ‘For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth’ (Matthew 25:14-30).
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PART 2 - DISCIPLES LOVE THE HUMBLE AT HEART
When a disciple sees someone such as a homeless person, someone with a bad addiction, someone who's mentally deranged, or someone with perverted desires, he sees someone who is about to meet God. This is because these people are often humble! With a humble heart, repentance is right around the corner. With repentance comes miracles. The problem is that these poor folks just don't know HOW to overcome their problems. They don't understand the deeper things of God such as how demons work, casting out demons, and healing. But with intercession, they can be shown! When God's ways are shown to them and they repent, their demons can be cast out and they can be healed.
When someone is broken, physically, emotionally, etc., they become desperate. This desperation humbles them. They are often willing to stop being in control and give the reins to the Lord. This is where the intercessing disciple steps in. The disciple takes advantage of their humble heart and quickly leads them to repentance. Repentance is quickly followed-up by deliverance and healing. The disciple pounds in their head that this is an on-going process to reach freedom. Great relief may come in one session, but there are usually many more demons to contend with and some of the demons that were cast out will often come back until the person can develop discipline over their flesh, emotions, and thoughts. A disciple doesn't look at a broken person with disgust, but as a future disciple! When that broken person gets deliverance and learns to walk with discipline, he'll have special insight into whatever fire he had walked through. This will make him especially dangerous to the devil's army in that area when he becomes a disciple and an intercessor.
...if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14).
Prideful people think their ways are righteous. For this reason they aren't open for deliverance. The mere suggestion that deliverance may help them is offensive to them. In the book of Job there is a beast called Leviathan. Leviathan is a demon of pride. He is king over all the children of pride (Job 41:34). Prideful people are hard to work with because they aren't open to repenting from their own ways. They close themselves off spiritually. With Holy Spirit revelation, this can be shown here...His rows of scales are his pride, shut up tightly as with a seal; (Job 41:15). For an aggressive disciple, prideful people can be frustrating to deal with. It will take much patience and discernment when trying to show them the truth. Remember, the prideful are in just as much...no...MORE need as the outwardly sinful, yet humble.
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PART 3 - DISCIPLES PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH
Imagine being a king and fighting an enemy who is completely ignorant of how your army operates. As a matter of fact, most of your enemies don't even know you exist! And the small percentage that believes your army exists has absolutely no idea how to fight you. Oh how easy it would be to dominate over your enemy! But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them (2 Corinthians 4:3-4).
We know Satan is filled with pride. He obviously thinks he's greater than he really is otherwise he wouldn't try to be like God Himself. Can you imagine how he must feel when a puny, weak human has the guts to not only defend himself and others, but go on the offensive against your supernaturally strong army? Can you imagine how offensive that must be? Imagine how angry that must make Satan. He'll set out to crush that puny, weak human! For this reason, disciples must learn to renew their minds continually. They need to put themselves through continuous deliverance to prevent themselves from straying off the narrow path and into the woods. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed (James 5:16). As a disciple, are you currently putting yourself through deliverance? If not, check your levels of pride and humbleness. A good intercessor is humble and desiring to promote God's name rather than his own.
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PART 4 - INTERCESSION THROUGH DEMONSTRATION OF POWER
Most non-Christians already know about Jesus and how He saved us by dying on the cross. We can talk until we are blue in the face and often the non-Christian is going to remain a non-Christian. As a matter of fact, during the end times there's a chance even the elect (already Christians) are going to fall away from the faith. Christianity is going to have a form of godliness, yet no power to back it up to prove it's true. Yet, at the same time the antichrist is going to demonstrate power and pull people to him. This is the direction the world is heading.
The following is for the person who is a non-Christian or a Christian without much spiritual depth. To spiritually break through to this person, starts with sincere conversation. During this conversation the person will size-up the disciple. The person will be judging whether the disciple really believes what he's saying or just regurgitating what he has heard before. The person will make a judgement on the disciple's character and sincerity.
If the disciple passes the character and sincerity judgement, he'll be able to go deeper. The disciple can mention prior miracles, healings, and deliverances. This will have to be done with discernment, being careful to not throw too much as the person. Now the disciple will have the person's interest, but there is still much caution in the person's heart.
The disciple explains to the person what repentance is and that it's the only requirement necessary for miracles to happen. With patience, gentleness, and persistence (this could be minutes or over a period of weeks, months or years) the person comes to repentance. Then, the disciple can offer deliverance and healing to the person.
The focus wasn't repeating the story of Jesus over-and-over and inviting the person to church to socialize. No! The focus was revealing the truth of Jesus and backing this truth with power to prove it's true. This is the way of making a disciple.
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen (Mark 16:15-20).
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