How to Intercede/Principles for Effective Intercession Flashcards
What is the key element of intercessory prayer?
The sincerity of our prayer requests
“Then you will call upon me and when you seek me with all your heart, I will be found by you…”
Jeremiah 29:13-14
“This is the confidence we have in approaching God; that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us-whatever we ask-we know that we have what we asked of Him.”
1 John 5:14-15
Praise God for who He is and for the privilege of engaging in the same wonderful ministry as the Lord Jesus. Praise God for the privilege of cooperating with Him in the affairs of men through prayer.
Hebrews 7:25
Make sure your heart is clean before God by having given the Holy Spirit time to convict, should be there be any unconfessed sin.
Psalms 66:28; 29:23-24
Acknowledge you cannot really pray without the direction and energy of the Holy Spirit/Ask God to utterly control you by His Spirit, receive by faith that He does, and thank Him.
Romans 8:26/Ephesians 5:18
Deal aggressively with he enemy. Come against him in the all-powerful Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and with the “sword of the Spirit”– the Word of God.
James 4:7
Die to your own imaginations, desires, and burdens for what you feel you should pray.
Proverbs 3:5-6; 28:26; Isaiah 55:8
Wait before God in silent expectancy, listening for His direction
Psalms 62:5; Micah 7:7; Psalms 81:11-13
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”
James 4:3
God answers prayers according to what?
His will
Where is His will revealed?
In the promises recorded in His word
