1 Samuel 7:8
And the people of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not cease to cry out to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”
Tag: Intercessory Prayer
God’s word gives us examples and commands that we pray for one another.
James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
We are to hold each other up in prayer as God has used prayer as a major factor in accomplishing His work. God uses prayer to make sure we are submitting ourselves to Him and recognizing our inability to accomplish His will without His divine strength and power and intercession on our behalf. Prayer is the tool God gives us to act as a catalyst for God’s working in our lives. When we neglect to pray for others we are, in essence, turning off the power of God to our lives and the lives we are interceding over. In the above passage we see that Samuel was ask, by the people of God, to intercede for them in regard to their on-going war with the Philistines. God has and does want to act on our behalf. Prayer is HIS chosen instrument to get His power active in our lives and the lives of those we are praying for. Later the nation of Israel will reject Samuel and ask for a king to lead them (like the other nations). It is at that time they begin to lose the power of God in their lives. Not because they have a king, but because they cease to pray and think that, with this king, they don’t need God. Prayer is the committed act of saying, “I have no help but thee, oh God, I have no help but thee!!”
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