We know that all things
work together for good to those who love God… —Romans 8:28
The circumstances of a saint’s life are ordained of God. In the
life of a saint there is no such thing as chance. God by His providence brings
you into circumstances that you can’t understand at all, but the Spirit of God
understands. God brings you to places, among people, and into certain
conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the
Spirit in you. Never put yourself in front of your circumstances and say, “I’m
going to be my own providence here; I will watch this closely, or protect
myself from that.” All your circumstances are in the hand of God, and therefore
you don’t ever have to think they are unnatural or unique. Your part in
intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the
everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to
bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to
intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His
saints.
Am I making the Holy Spirit’s work difficult by being vague and
unsure, or by trying to do His work for Him? I must do the human side of
intercession— utilizing the circumstances in which I find myself and the people
who surround me. I must keep my conscious life as a sacred place for the Holy
Spirit. Then as I lift different ones to God through prayer, the Holy Spirit
intercedes for them.
Your intercessions can never be mine, and my intercessions can
never be yours, “…but the Spirit Himself makes intercession” in each of our
lives (Romans 8:26).
And without that intercession, the lives of others would be left in poverty and
in ruin.
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