KEY SCRIPTURE 1Ti 2:1 KJV I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

The word “intercede” means to act between two parties with the thought of reconciling the two of them. The prayer of intercession is standing in the gap in prayer on behalf of another. Normally, we intercede for the unsaved.

Apostle Paul instructs Timothy that one thing he must do first is to intercede for all men, beginning with all who are in authority. Leaders are the main targets of the kingdom of darkness. When Satan holds sway over leaders, then the rest of the citizens are under his control. The only means to keep the whole people living in peace is to secure the leaders from satanic influences.

God said
something to Israel through the prophet Isaiah, which shows that he desires His people to intercede on behalf of others. Isa 59:16 KJV And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.”
God is seeking His will to be done on the earth, and it takes intercessors to get this done.

Our key scripture also reveals God looks for people of prayer to stand in the gap to make up the hedge and to intercede so that people’s lives can be free from the enemy’s influence and not have his way among the people.1Ti 2:2 KJV” For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty”.

In Genesis 18 23-32 (please read through), Abraham stood in the gap for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. In that story, Abraham asked God to spare the city if there were fifty righteous people. He kept beating the number down to ten, yet the Lord was ready to hear him. If God, in the time of Abraham, was ready to be so patient and spare such sinful people even if He could find only ten righteous souls, how much more now in the new covenant.

So much in our society would have changed if we had stood in the gap to intercede for people. Let us arise and stand in the gap for our nation, our families, and our communities, for the Lord seeks intercessors so evil would be stayed.

Why should a man intercede before God can affect a change? When people break God’s law, the evil one has the full right to destroy. It is the prayers of the intercessor that give God the right to intervene. God, the creator, has leased the earth into man’s hand, and so He must be invited by man to act on the earth.

CONFESSION

I commit myself to standing in the gap for my family, community, nation, and various events in the world. I would not hold my peace until righteousness breaks forth and the will of God is established.

FURTHER STUDIES

Isaiah 62:1“For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth”.

Isaiah 64:7 ” And there is none that calleth upon thy name that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities”.