The Personal Benefits of Intercession
- Grantley Morris
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
What Intercession does
for the Pray-er
Uplifting thoughts by Prayer NET member, Frank Alcamo
“I believe when you pray for someone else
you are praying for yourself”
When you help someone else you are helping yourself, and when a member of the body of Christ gets help, healing, a renewal of the Power of the Holy Ghost, I believe it affects the whole body of Christ for the better, because no one lives unto himself. And he that waters shall be watered himself by the Lord. My dad used to say if you help someone then you just helped yourself. When we live unselfishly, then we find the joy of the Lord. Whatsoever we do to the least of His brethren; we do to Him. This can have positive and negative connotations. May God help us always to do good and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
We don’t have to beg God to save anyone. He wants to save them more than we want to see them saved. I am reminded of a conversation Moses had with God. It would almost seem at face value, that Moses was trying to persuade God to be merciful by not destroying the Israelites. But it was the other way around. God was building within Moses depths of compassion and mercy Moses had never had before. God was giving Moses a chance to stand in the gap for the stiff-necked Israelites. I believe when we pray for others; God works a softness and tenderness that was not there before in our hearts. This is because we are talking to the One who is all mercy, all beauty, all powerful, all kind and all loving. When we pray to Him, He changes us and makes us like Himself. We become most like the thing that we worship. That is why the Bible admonishes us to praise the Lord so much. Every time we do it, we become a little more like Jesus. God was testing Moses to see if Moses was only interested in himself or whether he was jealous that God be glorified. By the grace of God, Moses passed the test by saying that God should spare the Israelites so that the Egyptians would not think that God would bring them into the desert just to destroy them. Moses was interested in God’s reputation not in his own fame. And God rewarded him for it.