Summer 2006
Intercession
Nancy Warner

Years ago, I read a teaching by Seeley Kinne in which he was putting forth a call for those who would take up a lamentation in the Spirit for the Lord’s people to again seek the deeper movings of the Lord’s presence and purposes. I have carried it in my Bible ever since!

As Seeley Kinne pointed out, there is a difference between the “mighty power of God and His transforming glory,” and that which comes through the “polish of our intellect, with its soulish powers.” Lord, give us discernment.

There is a travail today, and it is getting stronger, for the life and ministry of Jesus to bring forth those who live and walk in the Spirit, who desire to live an overcoming life, and become joined with the Lord in a cooperative relationship with Him, in the outworking of His present day purposes.

John the Baptist was a “single” prophetic voice in a transitional time. We also are living in a transitional time, but today the Lord desires to bring forth a “corporate” prophetic voice. There is within the Church an overcoming people, whom the Lord is enabling - those who are walking in intimate relationship with Him, who are coming to know and rightly respond to His voice.

As these personally meet the Lord, a corporate “prophetic sound” is beginning to form, which is becoming “the voice of one crying in the wilderness” in intercession. These groanings are getting stronger and closer together, because the time of birthing is at hand.

Also, there is a singular sound of worship - the sound that is resonate around the throne, which is again being heard in the earth, as overcomers are being brought up into the throne through the submission of the totality of their being to the Lord Jesus Christ. The sound of intercession and worship are beginning to intertwine, in bringing forth this new sound.

Our worship and intercession is the key that will cause the intervention of the Lord to be released to accomplish His last day purposes through us. Webster defines the word “intervene” as meaning “any interference in the affairs of another.” This is the Lord’s desire; to interfere with man’s plans that He might bring forth His plan.

Intervention also means “to come, or lie between.” The Lord is standing between the place where we are, and the place to which He is calling us, and He is knocking to attract our attention.

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.” Revelation 3:20

Our part is to respond and open the door, so that the Lord can “interfere” in our lives to bring forth the new. As we respond to the presence of Jesus knocking on the door of our heart, the intervention of the Lord is released into our lives. Our intercession will open this door, and pave the way for the Lord to come in intervention into our lives, circumstances, Churches and ministries.

I was speaking along these lines, when afterward someone came and gave me something written by Wade Taylor. He said, “Intercession is at the heart of the end-time intervention of our Lord. It is the enabling that will make a way for the Lord to enter the affairs of man.” I am going to reword it just a little bit. Intercession is the enabling that will release and make a way for the Lord to interfere in our lives!

We need the intervention of the Lord today into every dimension of our lives. Just as Mary, who lived during a transitional time, was totally incapable of birthing Jesus into His redemptive purpose, until the Holy Spirit came unto her in intervention. We, the Body of Christ, are also incapable of bringing forth the Lord’s purpose today, aside from His intervention.

We are living during a transitional time, a change of dispensations. The Lord is calling us into a higher realm of personally knowing Him, that a corporate voice and ministry might come forth to pave the way for His coming. Intercession will open this door.

There is much today that could rob us of our time of inner communion with the Lord. Television, music and all our busyness, challenges the devotional aspect of our lives. It is so important that we learn to govern our time wisely to maintain our times of communion with the Lord.

Scripture tells us we are to “pray without ceasing.” I can pray when I am driving my car, cutting the grass, or washing dishes. However, I cannot pray when I am worrying, holding resentment, or being preoccupied with thoughts that are not from the Lord. The same part of me that prays can be so busy with these other things that it interferes with the fellowship that I am being called to continually maintain.

At this present time especially, there is a clearing out of these hindrances and an upward poise of our spirit toward the Lord, that will enable us to “pray without ceasing.” From this place of prayer, the Holy Spirit will bring forth intercession in deep inner groanings to bring forth the life of Jesus through us.

Are you willing to clear your life of those things that hinder? The Lord is calling us to be a part of this prophetic end-time sound, that is coming from the throne.