Get on your knees—and fulfill your eternal calling
When you pray each day, how much of those prayers do you offer for other people?
Our daily prayers should include praise, thanksgiving and repentance. But the majority of our prayers should be intercessory prayers: praying for God’s Work and for other people.
That is not natural. Particularly when we’re amid a trial, our prayers can begin turning inward, focusing on ourselves and our troubles. Some people’s physical pain can be so intense that it is difficult to focus attention on anything else. In a way, that is probably how we all tend to be: Whatever pain or problem we might have, it’s easy for that to dominate our minds—and our prayers.
We must make a strong effort every day to fight our own selfishness in our prayer life. We must learn and become very skilled at making intercessions the heart of our prayers.
The Bible shows that those individuals God calls into His Church today are His priests (1 Peter 2:9). That will be our job forever—yet God says He has already made us priests (Revelation 1:6; 5:10). In a sense, as far as God is concerned, all of His Spirit-begotten people, not just the ministers, hold that office in a spiritual sense today.
One of the major responsibilities of a priest of God is intercessory prayer.
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