READ: EXODUS
32:7-9
To intercede
you need an intercessor’s mind-set. An intercessor is someone who is ready to
spend and be spent. He is someone who is ready to lay down his life for the
needy. An intercessor is selfless, sacrificial, tireless, faithful and addicted
to standing in the gap for the needy. Intercessors are generally willing to pay
any price to fulfil their calling. They persist when others are complaining.
Intercessors are versed in the Scriptures. They also know how to dwell in the
inner chambers of prayer. Intercessors are not popular. Although men do not
know them, God knows them. Moses strikes me as a classical example of a
practical intercessor. The children of Israel forgot the One who brought them
out of bondage and made other gods for themselves. God became angry with them.
“Then
Moses returned to the LORD and said, Oh, these people have sinned a great sin,
and have made for themselves a god of gold! Yet now, if You will forgive their
sin –but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.”
(Exodus 32:31-32).God called the Israelites the people of Moses. Moses replied
by saying that they were God’s people. He said it was God that brought them out
of bondage and not him. Moses reminded God that His name was involved. At a
certain stage, Moses offered himself in exchange for the people’s offence. That
is the heart of an intercessor. Are you an intercessor?
MEMORIZE:
EXODUS 32:32 –Yet now, if You will forgive their sin –but if not, I pray, blot
me out of Your book which You have written.
