PROPHETIC INTERCESSION (1)

“He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor?”  – Isaiah 59:16a

Closely linked to the Watchman’s Ministry is PROPHETIC INTERCESSION: “He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor?” (Isa.59:16a). God Himself is the Eternal Intercessor: “Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him...” (v.16b). Our Lord Jesus also “always lives to make intercession” for us (Heb.7:25). To intercede is to stand in the gap for another. An intercessor takes up the case before God on behalf of another, picking up the burden and carrying the case of justice before God in behalf of another. He reminds God of the promises and appointments yet to be fulfilled. Intercessors, as watchmen, study the Word of God and remind Him of the promises that await fulfilment (Isa.62: 6-7). They pray prophetic promises into reality. God exclaimed at the lack of intercessors (Eze.22: 30-31).

Intercessors build up the hedge or the wall of protection in the time of battle, to keep the enemies out. They stand in the gap between God's righteous judgment and people’s need for mercy, like Abraham did for Sodom and Gomorrah. Prophetic intercession is the ability to receive a direct prayer request from God and pray about it in a divinely anointed utterance. It involves waiting before God in order to “hear” or receive His burden – His Word, concern, warning, conditions, vision, or promises – and respond back to Him and then to the people with appropriate actions (Lk.2: 36-38). We let go of our agendas and take the time to receive the desires that are in God’s Heart.

Prophetic intercession or Revelatory Prayer is praying with God! It is God laying on our heart what is on His! The Holy Spirit gives the urge to pray for a situation or circumstance about which we may have little natural knowledge. But we are enabled to pray the Heart of God. It is the ability to receive a prayer request from God and pray it back to Him. Prophetic intercession is not as much praying to God as it is praying with God! Such God-inspired, God-directed intercession is powerful and effective. God nudges us to pray so that He can intervene.

Prophetic Intercessors combine waiting, listening and reading the Scriptures with letting the Holy Spirit release the particular promise that is on His Heart. We let God’s Heartbeat pulse in our own beings, pleading for the maturity of the Body – that the company of the redeemed humanity would expand to the ends of the earth. It’s prime time in history for Believers in Christ Jesus to take up the call to pray what is in the Heart of God to be enacted for our times! God is looking for and raising a generation of prophetic people into His supernatural arena, to hear and see in order to speak – in the assembly of believers, out into the streets and marketplaces, and in the prayer closet.