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Ministry of Intercession Day 6

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Andrew Murray’s classic on Intercession can be found online at

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29296/29296-h/29296-h.htm

To spur you to pray, we are going to post the day by day helps from the end of the book .  Enjoy.  Pray along.

What to pray.— For the Spirit of Love in The Church

“I pray that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them and Thou in Me; that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and hast loved them as Thou hast loved Me … that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”—John xvii. 23.

“The fruit of the Spirit is love.”—Gal. v. 22.

Believers are one in Christ, as He is one with the Father. The love of God rests on them, and can dwell in them. Pray that the power of the Holy Ghost may so work this love in believers, that the world may see and know God’s love in them. Pray much for this.

how to pray.— As one of God’s Remembrancers

“I have set watchmen on thy walls, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are the Lord’s remembrancers, keep not silence, and give Him no rest.”—Isa. lxii. 6.

Study these words until your whole soul be filled with the consciousness, I am appointed intercessor. Enter God’s presence in that faith. Study the world’s need with that thought—it is my work to intercede; the Holy Spirit will teach me for what and how. Let it be an abiding consciousness: My great life-work, like Christ’s, is intercession—to pray for believers and those who do not yet know God.

Ministry of Intercession Day 5

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Andrew Murray’s classic on Intercession can be found online at

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29296/29296-h/29296-h.htm

To spur you to pray, we are going to post the day by day helps from the end of the book .  Enjoy.  Pray along.

what to pray.—God’s People Kept From the World

“Holy Father, keep through Thine own name those whom Thou hast given Me. I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.”—Johnxvii. 11, 15, 16.

In the last night Christ asked three things for His disciples: that they might be kept as those who are not of the world; that they might be sanctified; that they might be one in love. You cannot do better than pray as Jesus prayed. Ask for God’s people that they may be kept separate from the world and its spirit; that they, by the Holy Spirit, may live as those who are not of the world.

how to pray.— Confidence Before God

“Beloved, if our hearts condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.”—1 John iii. 21, 22.

Learn these words by heart. Get them into your heart. Join the ranks of those who, with John, draw nigh to God with an assured heart, that does not condemn them, having confidence toward God. In this spirit pray for your brother who sins (1 John v. 16). In the quiet confidence of an obedient child plead for those of your brethren who may be giving way to sin. Pray for all to be kept from the evil. And say often, “What we ask, we receive, because we keep and do.”

Ministry of Intercession Day 4

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Andrew Murray’s classic on Intercession can be found online at

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29296/29296-h/29296-h.htm

To spur you to pray, we are going to post the day by day helps from the end of the book .  Enjoy.  Pray along.

what to pray.—For the Spirit of Holiness

God is the Holy One. His people is a holy people. He speaks: I am holy: I am the Lord which make you holy. Christ prayed: Sanctify them. Make them holy through Thy Truth. Paul prayed: “God establish your hearts unblamable in holiness.” “God sanctify you wholly!”

Pray for all saints—God’s holy ones—throughout the Church, that the Spirit of holiness may rule them. Specially for new converts. For the saints in your own neighbourhood or congregation. For any you are specially interested in. Think of their special need, weakness, or sin, and pray that God may make them holy.

how to pray.— Trusting in God’s Omnipotence

The things that are impossible with men are possible with God. When we think of the great things we ask for, of how little likelihood there is of their coming, of our own insignificance. Prayer is not only wishing, or asking, but believing and accepting. Be still before God and ask Him to give you to know Him as the Almighty One, and leave your petitions with Him who doeth wonders.

Ministry of Intercession Day 3

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Andrew Murray’s classic on Intercession can be found online at

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29296/29296-h/29296-h.htm

To spur you to pray, we are going to post the day by day helps from the end of the book .  Enjoy.  Pray along.

what to pray.— For all the Saints

“With all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all saints.”—Eph. vi. 18.

Every member of a body is interested in the welfare of the whole, and exists to help and complete the others. Believers are one body, and ought to pray, not so much for the welfare of their own church or society, but, first of all, for all saints. This large, unselfish love is the proof that Christ’s Spirit and Love is teaching them to pray. Pray first for all and then for the believers around you

how to pray.— In the Love of the Spirit

“By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.”—John xiii. 35.

“I pray that they all may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me.”—John xvii. 21.

“I beseech you, brethren, by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me.”—Rom. xv. 30.

“Above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves.”—1 Pet. iv. 8.

If we are to pray we must love. Let us say to God we do love all His saints; let us say we love specially every child of His we know. Let us pray with fervent love, in the love of the Spirit.

Ministry of Intercession Day Two

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Andrew Murray’s classic on Intercession can be found online at

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29296/29296-h/29296-h.htm

To spur you to pray, we are going to post the day by day helps from the end of the book .  Enjoy.  Pray along.

Second Day

what to pray.—  FOR THE SPIRIT OF SUPPLICATION

“The Spirit Himself maketh intercession for us.”—Rom. viii. 26.

“I will pour out the Spirit of Supplication.”—Zech. xii. 10.

“The evangelisation of the world depends first of all upon a revival of prayer. Deeper than the need for men—ay, deep down at the bottom of our spiritless life—is the need for the forgotten secret of prevailing, world-wide prayer.”

Every child of God has the Holy Spirit in him to pray. God waits to give the Spirit in full measure. Ask for yourself, and all who join, the outpouring of the Spirit of Supplication. Ask it for your own prayer circle.

Mercy AND Truth Psalm 25

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Discipleship Principles

Discipleship Principles

Let mercy and truth cover your conversation and way of life.

Psalm 25:4,5 Show me Your paths, O Lord.  Teach me to walk in Your ways.  Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all the day.

Morning Moments: Rising this morning to some cooler than average temperatures, truth stirred in me.  Solomon’s wisdom shouts out.  David’s prayer prompts.  Maybe, like me you’ve found life tough.  Results resistive?  Outcomes untimely?  There are many days like that.  And there are many days full of results where outcomes are powerful and lives are changed.

Better: Fulfillment comes watching my children and grandchildren develop into all God has for them.  Contentment builds in living the adventure with my wife, Dian, for over 35 years.  The Father continues to build me and mold me.  Like the song, “Every day with Jesus is better than the day before.”  Truthfully?  It does not always feel like it.

Faith or Feeling: Truthfully?  Feelings are not the food of a disciple of Christ. When was the last time you heard that phrase applied to you, ‘a disciple of Christ’? Faith is the food of a disciple of Christ.  Vision is the food of a disciple of Christ.  Service is the food of a disciple of Christ.  Giving is the food of a disciple of Christ.  Witnessing is the food of a disciple of Christ.  Prayer and thanksgiving and fellowship are food of a disciple of Christ.  Scripture study and meditation are the food of a disciple of Christ.

Discipleship: Yesterday, I was mentoring a church leadership team in discipleship principles.  The freshness of the lead team after years of sameness is beautiful.  The good news is bringing new believers.  Scriptural principles applied to those new lives will result in faith and right living.  This team knows enjoying our feelings in the moment and praying for God to miraculously teach new believers what they need to know is foolish and irresponsible and untruthful.   Ouch.  Let mercy and truth hang as an ornament.  Put it out there.  They are getting the right results.

Back to results:    Right disciplines steer the course to right results.   That is truth. The miracle love of God providently takes our small efforts and causes them to give much larger outcomes than are humanly possible.  That is mercy.  Mercy works with truth.

Prayer:  Father, this morning lacks the full luster I would like.  Underneath the feelings and human perceptions, I understand the principles put into motion are working.  Beyond my sight and touch, I know You are working miracles of mercy.  It just does not feel like it.  Okay, that is truthful, Father.  I believe, help my unbelief.  Stir the life blood of Your Holy Spirit to a boil in my soul.  Cause the energy from Your presence to be enthusiasm for others to touch.   Let mercy and truth come out from me as well as live in me.  Let it be an ornament of beauty for others to see based on right living as a disciple of Christ and great mercy as a child of the Most High Creator.

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Champion Fathers Luncheon and Tourney  Sept 16, Willow Creek Golf and Country Club

IPHC General Conference July 24,25,26  Dallas, Texas

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Fearless Fathers Catalyst Weekend Aug 2,3,4 Tabitha Baptist, OKC

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