Thursday January 15th, 2026
« I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. »
9 And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people!
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.”
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?
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.
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.’ ”
14 So the Lord relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.
- Intercession is an assignment for every true child of God.
Intercessors are people who carry the burdens of God.
They pray the prayers God wants them to, not just their own prayers.
When God needs something done on earth, He looks for intercessors to partner with.
He looks for a man, a woman to stand in the gap for others.
« I searched for a man among them who would build up a wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one »
Remember when God was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 18 – it was clear that God was looking for someone to stand in the gap for the people of Sodom.
You will see that God agreed to every plea Abraham made for the people.
God always looks for someone to stand in the gap for others; when He looks your way, will He find you to be an intercessor ?
You may ask,
“Why can’t God just reveal to the individual who is about to get into trouble so they can pray for themself ?”
The truth is, sometimes, God needs someone else to pray for other people so they are not destroyed.
At such times, He puts it in the heart of an intercessor to stand in the gap in prayers.
This is clearly illustrated in the case of job and his friends, Job 42:8.
- Many people are perishing today because there is a shortage of intercessors willing to carry the burdens of God in the place of prayer.
Enough of praying for yourself alone.
Don’t be a selfish Christian.
When you pray, let God put into your heart what or who you should pray for.
If He lays in your heart to pray for another country that is not yours, don’t say,
“What is my business with those people?”
Pray as He has laid in your heart so that at least one person there can be saved.
Sometimes He will ask you to pray for one particular individual;
do so, because your prayer may be what would make the difference between the person living or dying.
God is seeking intercessors, will He find you ?
Application – Commit to becoming an intercessor today.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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