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12 SIGNS THAT YOU MIGHT BE AN INTERCESSOR
This is something that I produced a few years ago which I feel is quite relevant today. It is a list of indicators that God may have poured out a special grace upon your life for intercession. If that is the case, you are in the right place. Amplifying your understanding of and training in the prophetic will only strengthen your ability to operate effectively as an intercessor. It is a longer read than usual but well worth the time. Let’s keep building!
1. You don’t just like prayer, YOU LOVE IT. Whether in good times or bad times within your own life, you look forward to prayer like others look forward to a vacation, a pay raise, or a favorite meal.
2. Praying for others and seeing them receive God’s blessings as a result excites you more than seeing your own needs met. It’s not that you aren’t conscious of your needs, you just have a blinding confidence that your needs will be met as you yield to God’s flame of intercession and focus on serving the needs of others.
3. When you don’t pray, you feel like God misses you. This is not a vain notion. It is an understanding that flows out of an intimate connection with Jesus. You sense the His heart’s longing for communion with His beloved. And unlike those who see God as “just fine without me,” you take the Church’s role in His divine plans and movements throughout the earth personally. Prayer is your key of participation. You see the divine access that Christ has purchased for you on the cross as a royal privilege and an invitation not to be taken for granted. You occupy a special place in His throne room and you take your strategic position seriously.
4. You LOVE God’s word. The Bible is a regular part of your spiritual diet and you understand the connection between scripture and prayer. Reading the Bible is like throwing logs onto the fire of your heart’s passion for intercession. The warfare you face as you walk with Christ in obedience to His word only further mobilizes you for righteous action. Therefore, you don’t read for survival in life, you read for reprisal against the attacks which aim to distract and deter you. What knowledge you gain through your study of scripture, you are eager to employ in order to be more effective in the exercise of your gift.
5. You are very conscious of the condition of your heart before God. While there is no doubt that you have weaknesses and desires like any other human, you cannot escape the everpresent knowledge of your need to stay free from anything that would prevent you from praying freely with a clear conscience. You understand the “change me first” dynamic of prayer. You repent easily, trusting the willingness of Christ to forgive you and cleanse you of all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). In like manner, you are quick to forgive others for their offenses and to apologize for yours, dreading the crippling problems that unforgiveness and pride can cause your ministry of prayer.
6. You enjoy the process of prayer as much as if not more than the product of prayer. Rather than being burdensome, you find the process of consecration, supplication, intimate interaction with God, and travailing to be exciting.
7. You don’t just care about those you pray for, you feel what they feel. You don’t just pray for your enemies, you weep for them. Your spiritual sensitivity causes you to pray with a more authentic and sincere adandonment to the cause of seeing God move in the lives of others.
8. You find yourself being strongly urged, driven, and empowered to pray by the Holy Spirit in different ways without notice. For example, God wakes you up to pray sometimes without an alarm clock and you often find yourself dreaming about things that only lead to deeper, more passionate, and more insightful prayers. You may sense His presence so heavily sometimes during your prayer sessions that it is as though His Spirit were sitting with you (or on you), making comforting contact with you, energizing you, surrounding you, calming you, and reassuring you as you intercede for people, places, communities, nations, and various world situations.
9. The enemy knows about your gift of intercession, fears its operation, and tries to stop you in undeniable ways. Some people might think you were crazy if you tried to explain to them the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual attacks you have experienced from him as you’ve sought to fulfill the task of fervently praying for others. However, you don’t take it personally. You have a deep-seeded knowledge that your trials are not about you but rather what’s IN YOU and the impact of your heavenly mission. You can testify to the fact that nothing the devil does can stop you from being used by Jesus because prayer isn’t just what you do, it’s who you are. Like Jesus, you find yourself continually resisting him, pressing forward in your calling, and telling that defeated pest, “Get thee behind me, Satan!” (Luke 4:8 KJV).
10. You deeply respect and honor God’s leaders—not for their personalities but for the prestige of their office. You understand the importance of spiritual authority and biblical order within the Kingdom of God. You pray for leaders with a humble grasp of their hefty responsibility while also understanding yours—which is to lift them up into God and hold them accountable before God primarily through intercession. You are slow to entertain gossip and quick to cover struggling leaders through compassionate cries for God’s mercy on their behalf. You don’t seek to ajoin people to yourself. Instead, you seek first to lead them to Jesus and then to help them become rooted in the Father through Christian fellowship, submission to His appointed leaders, and acts of service (toward God and man) performed in faith through the power of the Holy Spirit.
11. Prayer changes things and not only do you know it, you’ve got the scars to prove it! When you pray, you expect things to happen. God has stirred your confidence in Him through experiences which have led you to a place of resolute faith in His ability to perform His word at the request of His beloved. You find yourself constantly encountering people who are presently in situations that you have seen God deliver you from, which enables you to pray insightfully and effectively.
12. Your heart’s desire is for the freedom, victory, faithfulness, and success of all of God’s people rather than just one denomination or individual church. You are Kingdom-minded, desiring for the glory of God to be made manifest everywhere regardless of the natural differences which too often divide mankind. Furthermore, understanding that God rains on the just and the unjust, you don't seek to limit God’s expression of goodness only to those who profess His name. Instead, you cry out for His mercy on behalf of those who don’t have the faith, the awareness, or the sense to cry out for themselves. Emboldened by Christ’s love for humanity as a whole, and harboring no judgement as to who is or isn’t deserving of His grace, you arise as the standard of God against evil wherever it reads its ugly head.
Now, as a disclaimer, I must say that every believer experiences or has the opportunity to experience any of the above signs in some measure. And all believers are called to intercede. But those who have a God-given gift of intercession will experience the above listed phenomena intensely, consistently, and more completely. So, if you happen to find that these signs are abundantly present in your life OR you sense a rattling conviction to embody these qualities in order to effectively walk in what you believe to be a gift of intercession in your life, CONGRATULATIONS! As always, seek God for confirmation concerning the truth you believe you have gained from this post concerning your calling. And be encouraged in knowing that if God gave you this gift, this tool, and this instrument of His power, He will surely show you how to use it properly. Continually submit yourself as well as the gift entrusted to you unto the Lord, and He will raise you up to do greater works in the name of Jesus Christ. May your personal relationship with the Father ever increase in vibrance and may nations be brought into the hand of Savior through the intercession of His people, in Jesus’ name. Amen! I leave you in the comfort and counsel of the Holy Spirit.
Sincerely,
Jason Weathers
“And I have put My words in your mouth; I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, And say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’” - Isaiah 51:16
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12 SIGNS THAT YOU MIGHT BE AN INTERCESSOR
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