I am not sure if this is true or if the bible says anything at all remotely close to the statement I am about to make, but I feel like one of my spiritual gifts I inherited from my mother. Don’t get me wrong, I know that I was given these gifts from Holy Spirit, but sometimes I wonder if Holy Spirit gives families similar gifts. I may be totally off base, but I feel like I received the gift and the heart of intercessor because of my mom.
Growing up I feel like there were hundreds of times I would come home from school, or wake up on a lazy Saturday morning/afternoon to find my mom sitting in her “devotional” spot. (Far left side of the couch, under a lamp, next to a side table, bible open, glasses on, coffee steaming). My mom not only LOVES the word of God, but she LOVES praying for her family. I know she carries a photo of all of us in her Bible and moves along the picture praying over each of our lives. I fully believe it is partly due to my mom’s dedication, consistency, and “ferocious” prayers that I made it to where I am today. Heck, it’s due to those prayers that I made it out of my teenage years alive…seriously.
I believe that the prayers of the saints move things that wouldn’t have moved had they not prayed. Marriages stay together, depression is broken, bodies are healed, minds are renewed, and hearts are restored. My mom did that/does that for all of us. She is gluing everything together with her prayers. She is sealing the metaphorical seal in the heavenly realms of our destinies and moving mountains through her warrior intercession.
Now that I am on the other side of my parents raising me and I am carving out my own path and walk with the Lord, I feel the spirit of an intercessor growing inside of me. Ministry time at church/small group has become one of my favorite parts of the week and some of my most intimate moments with the Lord are when I am in prayer for others. Be it someone standing right in front of me, our country, our president, my family, etc. the Lord continues to give me the words to pray and draw me deeper into his chamber and his arms. And even if she didn’t exactly give me the gift her self, she gave me the gift of her example and I am thankful.
2 comments:
love this. So true... I think the example of Ma praying all throughout the day, while she is keeping our house a home (among other things) is an example I'm trying to follow these days. I'm not there, but I'd like to be.
I loved this entry. I have read it several times...
I commented on the "With All My Heart" version, but I'll say here that calling on divine power on behalf of ones you love is perhaps the most important work you can do. Because you ultimately have no control over the choices they will make. (Will they choose the narrow gate that leads to life or the wide party gate that leads to destruction?) But they are in the hands of Our Almighty God.
So, pray regularly, offensively (protection when they are in difficult situations), defensively (God, peel away those friends that are leading them down a wrong path) and with great intensity (sometimes with fasting if the need is dire).
I am glad God is giving you such desire to storm the gates of heaven on behalf of those you love.
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