Intercessory Prayer

his message is a standalone talk on intercessory prayer, delivered between series as the church prepares for a new season. Drawing from Jesus' teaching in Luke 11 — the Lord's Prayer and the parable of the friend knocking at midnight — the message unpacks what it looks like to pray with shameless audacity: persistent, desperate, and deeply relational. The sermon explores three movements of prayer from Luke 11:9 — ask, seek, and knock — and what it means to bring your whole life into alignment with the will of God. Walter Wink's definition of intercession as "spiritual defiance of what is, in the name of what God has promised" frames the message from beginning to end. Andrew Murray and Leonard Ravenhill also speak into what it means to stand before God on behalf of others. The closing returns to the powerful refrain: history belongs to the intercessors.Romans 8:34 gives a striking reminder that Jesus himself is interceding for us at the right hand of the Father — not calmly passing our prayers along, but pleading our case.Listen to the podcast and find us everywhere at linktr.ee/takeholdchurchBe Loved.