OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY.
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The Topic of Open Heavens for 9th August
2023 Is “Benefits of Intercession”
MEMORISE: Ezekiel
22:30
And
I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the
gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
READ: 1 Kings 9:1-9
And it
came to pass, when Solomon had finished building the house of
the Lord and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he
wanted to do, 2 that the Lord appeared to Solomon the
second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
3 And
the Lord said to him: “I have heard your prayer and your supplication
that you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have
built to put My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be
there perpetually.
4 Now
if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of
heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded
you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,
5 then
I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I
promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man on the
throne of Israel.’
6 But if
you or your sons at all [a]turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My
statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship
them, 7 then I will [b]cut off Israel from the land which I have
given them; and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will
cast out of My sight. Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all
peoples. 8 And as for this house, which is
exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and
say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this
house?’
9 Then
they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who
brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods,
and worshiped them and served them; therefore the Lord has brought
all this calamity on them.’ ”
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OPEN
HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
The
greatest benefit of intercession is that God draws you closer to Himself. He
tells you His next move because He needs you to intercede concerning it. When
you are an intercessor, you get so close to God that you feel His heartbeat.
You share in His very burden for the souls of men. God sees intercessors just like
He sees Jesus because He is the number one intercessor.
1
John 2:1 says He is always with the Father, advocating for us. Intercessors
carry a strong burden for the souls of men, just like Jesus did when He laid
down His life for mankind. Moses – a true intercessor, illustrated how much he
carried this burden in Exodus 32:31-32: And Moses returned unto the LORD, and
said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
Yet
now, if thou wilt forgive their sin–; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of
thy book which thou hast written. He asked God to forgive the people of
Israel or remove his name from the book of life. That is how much the burden of
the souls of men is on intercessors. That is why intercessors are in the same
department as Jesus Christ.
Jesus
is their Head of Department and whatever prayer comes from that department is
seen by God as coming from Jesus Christ Himself. Solomon cared about the people
of God more than he did about himself. That is why, when he only asked for
wisdom to lead the people right, God decided to bless him far beyond his
expectations. Intercessors hardly have personal prayer points because before
their needs arise, God has already resolved them.
Real
intercessors don’t intercede just for their own benefit. Intercession is borne
out of love and passion for the souls of men. Like Daniel in Daniel 9:1-19,
when an intercessor sees the promise of God not being fulfilled in the life of
a person or nation, he or she would begin to pray concerning that situation. He
or she would keep reminding God of that promise until it is fulfilled, just to
ensure that God’s will is established and that the souls of men are preserved
from danger.
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