INTERCESSION

Ezekeil 22:30

I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for [the sake of] the land, that I would not destroy it, but I found no one [not even one].
Ezekiel 22:30

Our Lord is looking for people who will pray for others it is saying I search for a man who will stand in the gap and pray but He found none we don’t want to be the none we want to be known as the one who will stand in the gap and pray, intercede are we really doing it no we aren’t doing it.

Genesis 18:16-32

Genesis 18:16 Abraham Intercedes for Sodom
Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way.
Genesis 18:17 And the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,
Genesis 18:18 since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 18:19 For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”
Genesis 18:20 And the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave,
Genesis 18:21 I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”
Genesis 18:22 Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord.
Genesis 18:23 And Abraham came near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Genesis 18:24 Suppose there were fifty righteous within the city; would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it?
Genesis 18:25 Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Genesis 18:26 So the Lord said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”
Genesis 18:27 Then Abraham answered and said, “Indeed now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord:
Genesis 18:28 Suppose there were five less than the fifty righteous; would You destroy all of the city for lack of five?”
So He said, “If I find there forty-five, I will not destroy it.”
Genesis 18:29 And he spoke to Him yet again and said, “Suppose there should be forty found there?”
So He said, “I will not do it for the sake of forty.”
Genesis 18:30 Then he said, “Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Suppose thirty should be found there?”
So He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
Genesis 18:31 And he said, “Indeed now, I have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord: Suppose twenty should be found there?”
So He said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty.”
Genesis 18:32 Then he said, “Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but once more: Suppose ten should be found there?”
And He said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.”

The Above verse speaks about Abhram what was he doing he was going on requesting Lord would destroy the land if there is fifty and then he says forty then goes till he comes to ten imagine someone asking you this question how would you react you would say enough dear I am done what I am supposed to do I will do ok so stop bothering me , but over here Abraham goes asking and speaking to God that he should spare the land. Our God is a God of grace it is this same God who has given Grace . It is the same God who wants us to pray for others not just sit at home my brother’s and sisters in the Lord we need to pray like the way Abraham was praying so that people our saved they are not destroyed by the Almighty God.

1 Timothy 2:1

1 Timothy 2:1 Pray for All Men
Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,

Over here Apostle Paul is saying pray for all not a single person but for all the people and he saying intercession you need to intercede for all not only for the one you love but for all whom you don’t at all.

Hebrew 7:25

Hebrews 7:25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

Who can save how can we be saved through one and only Jesus Christ we have to go through Him He is interceding for us all the time He stand in the gap for us we need to learn this from the Master of the House that when the Master interceding for us so shall we should intercede for others.

Exodus 32:7-14

Exodus 32:7 And the Lord said to Moses, “Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.
Exodus 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’”
Exodus 32:9 And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people!
Exodus 32:10 Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.”
Exodus 32:11 Then Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, and said: “Lord, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
Exodus 32:12 Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people.
Exodus 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
Exodus 32:14 So the Lord relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.

When you start to read this verse what does come in your heart that Lord has done so much for you but still you deny Him you are not bothered that the way you living is not His way rejecting Him all the time , when you didn’t had money He provided but today you have forgotten Him you all the things require to live, a time was there when you were not having child but after you got your child you have forgotten the Almighty now you will say I don’t have time to pray, you were were not getting job Lord provided Job for you now when you have a Job you are not bothered about Lord you carefree. There are so many things which Lord does for us and we ignore Him. And who says about us and prays for us all the time it is Jesus Christ again. In this it was Moses who interceded for the Israelites but for us there is one who is above all His name is Jesus Christ.