Intercession Everyone's Job

We are all designed by God. We are all given places in his mission to invite the world into his family. As we recently posted, there are a multitude of functions, and God has equipped someone to complete that function.

Some are given to act as an interface between God’s family, and the world. Some are given to maintain, and improve, the condition of God’s family. Some in physical areas. Some in relational areas. Some in character. All of these areas involve a spiritual component. That’s because all of life is connected to the Father. Especially within God’s family.

God’s family have accepted Father’s offer to unite in relationship., becoming his children. Sonship is not one simple thing. It is commitment to Father. It is a promise to live by his word. It is an invitation, and permission, for him to act in our lives. (And when he acts, it is always for our best.)

And some function to gain greater involvement of Father in the world, and in the lives of his family. (I called this “artillery spotting” in an earlier post.) It is easy for us to understand intercession in terms of evangelism. We want God to break lies, highlight truth, and generate clarification in the hearts of people, who have not yet chosen relationship with Father. (And I am not writing to minimize this type of prayer. Indeed, I would encourage more. Let us rain down spiritual artillery on Africa, Asia, the Middle East, India, London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, and everywhere in between. Let all these places be pummeled with God’s greatness, goodness, kindness, and love. Let one billion, two billion, people chose to unite with Father in a single day.)

But let us also remember that God’s Spirit, and God’s love, needs to be where, and doing whatever, God’s family is dong. He needs to be with Reinhard Bonnke preaching to a million people in Nigeria. He needs to be with millions of people, giving money, and writing letters, to children, partnering with Compassion, and other organizations like it. He needs to be in millions of worship meetings around the world. He needs to be with every single person giving instruction, encouragement, counseling, mercy, or forgiveness. He needs to be with every person mowing the lawn, repairing, or maintaining, equipment in places, or on property, used by God’s family. And every single on of these situations ought to have someone spotting God’s artillery.

No one knows the tipping point, that releases the incense of heaven to cover the earth.