What is Intercessory Prayer?
Intercessory prayer is prayer for others. An intercessor is one who takes the place of another or pleads another's case. One study Bible defines intercession as "holy, believing, persevering prayer whereby someone pleads with God on behalf of another or others who desperately need God's intervention." Read more about this at All About Prayer.
Intercessory prayer is not the same as prayers for yourself, or for 'enlightenment', or for spiritual gifts, or for guidance, or any personal matter, or any glittering generality. Intercession is not just praying for someone else's needs. It is praying with the real hope and real intent that God would step in and act for the good of some specific other person(s) or other entity. It is trusting that God will act, even if it's not in the manner or timing we seek. God wants us to ask, even urgently. It is casting our weakness before God's strength, and (at its best) having a bit of God's passion burn in us. Read more at Spirit Home.
What is discernment?
Webster's Dictionary defines discernment as the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure. It is also the skill to detect with the eyes and with senses other than vision, to recognize or identify as separate and distinct <discern right from wrong>; to come to know or recognize mentally; and to see or understand the difference.
Let us pray for and with you
How powerful is prayer! So powerful that "Christan prayer" is found on more than 3.9 million websites today.
CMBC intercessors are available to pray for you or with you on behalf of someone else. Please complete this form for each person and know that Capital Missionary Baptist Church will be standing in the gap for you in this area. So, be specific as we will pray for this need directly. We will also pray dilligently for the person to have discernment in deaing with this specific request.
We invite you to join us for intercessory prayer every Monday at 7pm. Send us your requests or testimonies to prayerwarriors@capitalmbc.com.