Who Is an Intercessor?

When we pray for someone else we stop being people who say "me, me, me," and become people who say "your will, Lord." When we intercede on behalf of someone else we become intercessors.

I've had some thoughts on the subject.

1. Keep a book of Intercession. Any notebook will do, and list

• people
• nations
• regions
• events

2. When entering people on your list, write small summary of why you are praying for them. The memory is not enough. Words have power, let the written subject remind you of their situation.

3. Intercession eases the burden of suffering in the world by purposefully lifting it up to God. We gather it and send it to God, we hold it with our faith. We do not hold suffering within either our souls, or our bodies.

4. The Holy Spirit is always ready to receive prayers, so when you pray for others faithfully, the Holy Spirit will dwell near you.

5. Intercession has a rebound in the moral world.