Intercession in the Spirit of /Dr Pat Holiday/Dr Sabrina Sessions/Marshal Perot

Paul refers to his own intercessory prayers and seeks for a similar service on his own behalf from those to whom he writes. Intercession is based upon the tendency of the heart filled by love and deep sympathetic sense of relations to others. Apostle Paul’s examples:  • (Rom. 1:9); The Spirit’s interceding  • (Rom.8:27); Paul’s prayer for his race,  • (Rom.10:1); request for prayers  • (Rom.15:30); help that he found from the prayer of his friends  • (2 Cor. 1:11); Prayer for the Corinthian church  • (2 Cor. 13:7); (Eph. 1:16-23; 3:14- 21); (Eph. 6:18; Phil. 1:3-11,19; Col. 1:3,9; 4:3; 1 (Thess. 1:2; 5:23,25; 2 Thess. 1:2); all men and for kings and those in authority  • (1 Tim. 2:1-2); prayer for Timothy  • (2 Tim. 1:3); Philemon verse 4; offered for the sick by the elders of the church (Jam. 5:14-18); also, (Heb. 13:18-21; 1 Jn. 5: 14 ff). The gradually developed system of religious worship should furnish the conception of the priest, and especially the high priest, as the intercessor for those who came to the sacrifice. This was the meaning of the great Day of Atonement, after offering for himself. Henceforth, the high priest offered the sacrifice for the whole people. This official act, however, does not do away with the intercessory character of prayer as offered by men.   Christ’s intercessory prayer is our highest example and pattern of this form of prayer. Jesus’ intercessions for His disciples and for His crucifers are recorded and the sacred record rises to the highest pinnacle in the prayer of, (Jn. 17). Intercession recognizes the Divine, unbroken relation to the object of the prayer: “I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep,” etc. (verse 11 the ultimate end of the prayer is salvation from the evil of the world (verse 15).