Intercession: Things to Consider pt1

🔹Answering the Call to Intercede: What Changes When You Say Yes?

▪️Before the Call

Many believers walk confidently in their own faith and personal devotional lives. They feel emotionally stable because they are primarily focused on their own burdens and those of their immediate circle. Their prayers tend to be more general:
• "God bless my family, my church, my city."

While they may possess spiritual gifts, these gifts might not yet be fully activated or directed toward intercession. They live faithfully, but without a deep sense of carrying the weight of others' spiritual struggles.


🔹When the Call to Intercession Comes

When a believer answers the divine invitation to become an intercessor, something profound begins to shift.

▪️A Deeper Sensitivity is Awakened

The Holy Spirit often activates or amplifies spiritual gifts, particularly:
• Discernment — the ability to perceive spiritual realities beyond the surface.
• Compassion — an intensified capacity to love and empathize (Romans 12:8).
• Word of Knowledge — insight into the needs and conditions of others.

The intercessor becomes more spiritually "attuned" to what is happening in both the spiritual realm and in the hearts of people.

"The Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." — Romans 8:26

▪️A Burden-Bearing Grace is Given

True intercessors often experience a mysterious yet real sense of carrying others' burdens — sometimes physically, sometimes emotionally.

This is known as identificational intercession, where you feel what others are feeling so you can pray with deep compassion and accuracy.

Jesus Himself modeled this when He became our High Priest who "sympathizes with our weaknesses" (Hebrews 4:15).

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▪️Emotional and Spiritual Stretching

Many new intercessors describe feeling more "fragile" or "tender."

Why? Because they are stepping into spiritual wounds and struggles that they previously never carried. Your spiritual "footing" may feel challenged as you move beyond your own emotional world into the spiritual realities of others.

This does not mean you are becoming permanently unstable. Rather, it means you must learn new spiritual disciplines and protections, including:
• Stronger personal boundaries.
• More intentional rest and self-care.
• Accountability relationships.
• Deeper intimacy with the Lord.


🔹Is It a Gift or a Call?

Some people wonder: Is intercession a gift or a calling? The answer is: both.
• Intercession as a calling: A divine invitation to a specific role or function in God's purposes. When you say "yes," you step into new levels of responsibility and spiritual authority.
• Intercession as a gift: Some have an extraordinary capacity to pray, sense burdens, and stand in the gap — this is a spiritual gift.

In many cases, the call activates the gift, or brings it to a new level of maturity and power.

🔹Final Thoughts

Saying "yes" to the call of intercession is not a light decision. It is a sacred invitation to partner with the heart of God for people, cities, and nations. It will stretch you, deepen you, and bring you closer to the compassionate heartbeat of Christ.

🔹Reflection Questions
• Have you sensed a deeper spiritual burden lately? Could this be an invitation to intercession?
• What new disciplines might the Lord be inviting you to embrace to support this call?
• Are there trusted believers you can partner with for accountability and support?

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