Receiving the Call | Season of Prayer and Intercession Week 2 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell

Receiving the Call

Series: A Season of Prayer and Intercession | Part 2

Pastor Andrew Cromwell

1 Timothy 2:1 NKJV
Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men…

First of all…pray!

4 Words for Prayer

1. Prayers: speaks of our communion or with God.

2. Supplications: Strong, intense, spiritual kind of praying which involves .

3. Thanksgiving: A prayer with an .

4. Intercession: speaks of mediating or .

Romans 8:26-27 NIV
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

The Mark of the Intercessor

Ezekiel 9:4 NLT
He said to him, “Walk through the streets of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of all who weep and sigh because of the detestable sins being committed in their city.”

The Myths of Intercession

Myth #1: It is a for a selected few.

Myth #2: It is a of prayer I can never reach.

Myth #3: I would never have the .

Myth #4: I do not have the for that kind of praying.

Myth #5: Isn’t this for retired missionaries, elderly women and fanatic saints?

Myth #6: My prayers won’t make a .

Ezekiel 22:30 NIV

“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.