IDOK DEVOTION FOR MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 2010
FOR PRAYER AND PRAISE:
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A new day and a new week – To God be the glory!
My Journey for today is about Intercession. Before I copy a portion of it here for you, go with me to two types of interceding.
Here in Numbers the people had grievously sinned and Yahweh in His grace and mercy sent ‘judgment’ — fiery serpents and Moses interceded.
Numbers 21: (New American Standard Bible) 6The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
7So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD and you; intercede with the LORD, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people.
8Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.”
And in I Samuel 25 Abigail also intercedes.
18Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
23When Abigail saw David, she hurried and dismounted from her donkey, and fell on her face before David and bowed herself to the ground.
32Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me,
33and blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.
And in part Journey reads: “When we see situations that violate who God is, He wants us to rise up and take a stand against those things. HE wants us to ask Him to act.
God has chosen to work through us to accomplish a portion of His will in the world. He wants us to intercede through our actions and through our prayers so that He can work through us.
Throughout His Word God has told us what His ways are and what His heart is like. So when we see something in the world that doesn’t line up with God or His ways, it’s a divine invitation for us to ask Him to change things. When you see something that you know doesn’t line up with God’s will or His heart, talk to Him about it. Act if necessary, and ask Him to move.
Many of the prayers recorded in the Bible are like strategy sessions with God. People saw an area of life they knew was operating outside of God’s ways, and they asked Him to change it. What in your life doesn’t look like God’s Kingdom? Invite God to work in that situation. He might be waiting on your prayers to act.”
Oh, I so like that – Strategy Sessions. Do we need to have some Strategy Sessions with God?
I want you to be encouraged! I want you to take heart! I want you to know our God and ABBA is calling us to prayer and our prayers are NOT in vain. He is answering even as we pray.
A strategy session. I pray, ABBA, for many strategy sessions to be held with You today for the people on our Praying For These lists, for our IDOK Troops, for the Church and Her need for revival, for the American People’s need of repentance and salvation; and for families and friends, for situations that are so, so outside Your Will. I am asking You, Holy Spirit, to change hearts and lives. In JESUS NAME I am asking You to intervene in all this. I am asking You to bless us by working through us however You can, ABBA. Amen and amen.
