PRACTICAL INTERCESSION WITH GRATITUDE TO GOD & THE CALL TO RECONCILIATION
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DEDICATION
I dedicate this book to God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit who delivered me from all the troubles of life that befell me.
DISCLAIMER
No part of this book should be considered the most perfect to having the best relationship and walk with God.
Take the content of this book as the author’s advised biblical method of living the life of Christ and living for God's glory here in this world.
MY SPECIAL PRAISE TO GOD
Dear God, I have come to You to praise, worship and exalt You with my words. Who is like unto You? You are the director of the wind, the redeemer of sinners and transgressors, the powerful one who cannot be shaken and moved, the multiplier of Knowledge and understanding. You sit upon everything. You are the foundation of the surest comfort. The whole world is upon Your palm and can be controlled on Your palm. You are Gentle and the same time an indomitable warrior! Mountains bow before You and the hills move like the kangaroos in Your presence. Your network is faster than the network of the universe! Yet You remain peaceful in our lives. Lord, Your blood is the greatest healer for every infirmity in the world. You are the one that does not run away from battle, the Almighty helper, the source of all goodness. You're the king over all, reigning over all. You are called Wonderful and the king of peace, the Giver of oxygen. The distributor of carbon(iv)oxide in the atmosphere, the silencer of sickness and any disease, the Restorer of victims of any disease and sickness, the Helper of doctors, the greatest Engineer, the Greatest Physician, the Giver of sight, the Lover of all, the King that Lucifer cannot defeat, the Hearer of prayer, the Source of our breath, the One who scatters the conglomeration of darkness, the Changer of story, the Rewriter of men's and women's history, the Giver of Holy Ghost, the Supplier of the fire of the Holy Ghost, the Breaker of yoke, the Breaker of embargo, the Key to the gate of heaven.The All-knowing God. The One whose light and power supply cannot be interrupted, the Light and the Source of light, the Holder of the cloud, the Giver of the spirit of mankind, our Maker. You are Pure and just! You are clothed with the greatest majesty and everlasting honor yet You prefer humility. All powerful You are. The 24 elders and all angels bow before You in heaven. All worship Your majesty. Your voice is mighty and Thy strength cannot be equaled. How large are Your fingers and Your Hands! Your arm rules for You. You are the Rewarder of both good and evil. You are our Good Shepherd who feeds us. We are Your lambs and sheep. You gather us together with Your Arm and carry us in Thy Bosom. You gently lead us.
Who has measured the waters? You are the one. Who has measured the heaven with a span? You are the mighty one. Who has calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? You are the one. You are the one who weighed the mountains in scales. You are the one who measured the hills in a balance. No counselor teaches You. No Instructor instructs You. No one teaches You the path of Justice. No one teaches You knowledge. The nations are as a drop in a bucket before You. We are not sufficient to become bigger than You anytime. You are the Source of our help. The Central Control Power of the whole universe. Our Power Source. The Power and Spirit over all and the greatest and mightiest Spirit who cannot be silenced.
Praise God. Alleluia.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I am heartily grateful to God for making the writing of this book a success.
INTRODUCTION
Most of us are already having the knowledge of Intercession, Gratitude and Reconciliation. But having the knowledge of these three spiritual vitamins is not enough when the relationship and walk with God is involved.
We must apply the principles and live the life of Intercession, Gratitude and Reconciliation to gain the depth of Christ's nature.
This book majorly focuses on messages for and prayers of Intercession, Gratitude and Reconciliation for God's glory in our lives.
Nevertheless, permit me to highlight and take your attention deeper to some important things to be aware of about Intercession, Gratitude and Reconciliation.
God bless you.
1. Who is the Fountain of Intercession?
2. Definitions and power of Intercession
3. Knowing the deceitful Intercession
4. Is Intercession the New Testament Culture?
5. The life God expects Intercessors to be living
6. Rewards for Intercessors
7. The biblical truths about Reconciliation
8. The Author's belief about thanksgiving & sacrificial thanksgiving
9. The Departments of the Gratitude Ministries
10. Fifty-two (52) biblical Researches about thanksgiving
11. The Special Practical Gratitude Expression of the Author to God.
WHO IS THE FOUNTAIN OF INTERCESSION?
It is written: Rom.8.26 - Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
The powers of darkness have delegated their agents to every environment human being find themselves. And they execute their evils at the times they have programmed to make it done. We might not know the kind of evil they have planned but don't you think there is a certain type of prayer to be prayed at a particular time? This is why the Holy Spirit breaks in to guide us on the kind of prayer to pray when we pray and He fights the battle for us when He moves us to speak in tongues. The Spirit of Christ - the Holy Spirit, is the fountain of Intercession.
DEFINITIONS AND POWER OF INTERCESSION
1. Intercession is generally known among believers as standing in the gap for someone, for a particular group or people and for an organization and ministry.
2. Intercession is the showing and promotion of caring love to someone not related to you and to someone related to you by blood or acquaintance.
3. It is a formal spiritual invitation that brings God into action for anyone that an intercessor prays for
4. It is a perfect will of God
5. It is a means to put God into quick action of deliverance and redemption
6. It is a spiritual transformer for an intercessor
7. It is a spiritual provocation for divine intervention
8. It is one of the spiritual fastest means to attain great heights in the spirit realm
9. It operates to make God block the loophole in the life of many believers
10. It is a repairing spiritual machine that God uses to repair a damaged relationship and friendship between the Holy Ghost and believers
11. It is a spiritual restoration device for an intercessor
KNOWING THE DECEITFUL INTERCESSION
It is written: 2Kgs.5.5-7 - Then the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So he departed and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing. Then he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which said, now be advised, when this letter comes to you, that I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy. And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy? Therefore, please consider, and see how he seeks a quarrel with me."
Deceitful Intercession is arrogantly made. It comes with corrupted mindset and it does not bring peace between God and mankind.
An arrogant friend cannot intercede in the way of the Lord. The corrupt mind does not follow the principles of acceptable Intercession.
Not all Intercessions are made in the right order. But we are called to make Intercession in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is the perfect one for genuine Intercession.
What does Deceitful Intercession do?
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It causes division instead of unity
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It functions as temptation
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It causes anger.
Principles of Acceptable Intercession
1. Intercession should not be made with pride in your heart.
2. As a prince and princess of God, use your position and authority in prayers in the way that will glorify the Lord
3. Let the fear of God be part of the foundation of your Intercession
4. Recognize that God is sovereign and intercede with respect to this.
5. Make your humility total and genuine not average humility.
6. Tell the Holy Ghost to guide you into perfect Intercession all the time
IS INTERCESSION THE NEW TESTAMENT CULTURE?
In the old testament, the Lord restricted prophet Jeremiah from praying for His own people.
See: Jer.7.16 - "Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; for I will not hear you.
But in the new testament, the Lord does not restrict us from interceding for His people. Infact, He wants us to intercede for all people. I Timothy 2:1 says, Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,
Also, we have read of the Intercession the first Church made for Apostle Peter when he was cast into prison. The effect of the Intercession invited and brought divine presence into the prison, made the chains to fall off Peter's hands without touching it, and caused strong gates of the enemy to open for Peter to get out of the prison.
Acts.12.5 - 11: Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.
And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison.
Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, "Arise quickly!" And his chains fell off his hands.
Then the angel said to him, "Gird yourself and tie on your sandals"; and so he did. And he said to him, "Put on your garment and follow me."
So he went out and followed him, and did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.
When they were past the first and the second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened to them of its own accord; and they went out and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him. And when Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel, and has delivered me from the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the Jewish people."
Making Intercession is the Christian way of life of the first generation of the Church of Christ. This culture ought to continue till the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
THE LIFE GOD EXPECTS INTERCESSORS TO BE LIVING
It is written: Gen.37.21 - But Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands, and said, "Let us not kill him."
Points to Remember
1. God has made you a head in the place you are to help the helpless.
2. You must always rightly search for opportunity to help.
3. Never keep silent when it is in your capacity to help the helpless.
4. The helpless you help today may become your helper in the future.
5. Lead to change people's wrong mindset.
6. Possess excellent intelligence to totally help.
7. Never allow any loophole in your efforts to help. Be well calculative and outsmart the foes of good deeds.
8. Never treat the helpless with hatred. Love them and meet their needs within your capacity at the right time.
REWARDS FOR INTERCESSORS
It is written: Isa.53.12 - Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
It is the Message Bible (MSB) version that clearly explains what God actually meant in this scripture. In the MSB version, God says:
1. He will extravagantly reward an intercessor
2. He will give an intercessor the best of everything
3. He will give an Intercessor the highest honors.
THE BIBLICAL TRUTHS ABOUT RECONCILIATION
1. It is written: Dan.9.24 - "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.
Reconciliation is part of the seventy weeks’ prophecy given to Daniel.
2. It is written: Matt.5.23- 24 - Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
An offering or Intercession made while keeping malice and bearing grudges with someone else needs to be ignored for Reconciliation. That is to say, don't intercede or give when you are keeping malice or bearing grudges with someone. Reconcile with them first and come back to give your offering.
Reconciliation is important than 10,000 Prayers prayed in malice and grudges.
3. It is written: 1Cor.7.11 - But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife.
God desires every couple that have issues against themselves to reconcile to each other.
4. It is written: 2Cor.5.20 - Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.
The Holy Spirit wants every disobedient aspect of our lives to reconcile to God
5. It is written: Eph.2.13 - 16: But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.
Jesus' purpose was to reconcile both the New testament and the old testament in one. Churches of God and their members should not be operating against themselves. We should live peacefully to one another and work for God's glory with ourselves in all righteousness, truth and sincerity of love.
AUTHOR'S BELIEF ABOUT THANKSGIVING AND SACRIFICIAL THANKSGIVING
The power of thanksgiving corresponds to the power of praise. But the sight of many believers is yet to be open to what Thanksgiving can do even when we are in trouble.
Now, let me tell you some benefits of thanking God or expressing gratitude to Him before I share my beliefs about sacrificial thanksgiving with you.
Benefits of Thanking God
1. You will gain more of God's attention for good and you will become more precious to Him
2. The satanic obstacles that might want to hinder you from receiving solution will be cleared before you start praying.
3. Thanksgiving is also a means of inviting God into the battle to fight battle for you
4. The enemies of the solution to your problems will be silenced
5. You don't need to stress ourselves too much when you pray. Just make your personal prayer less than your gratitude to
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