Jesus Your High Priest Intercedes For You …He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. Hebrews 7:25 The verse says that Jesus always lives to make intercession for us. Once, I used to think that this meant that Jesus is seated at the Father’s right hand today, praying all the time for us, waiting and hoping that the Father will do something for us. But that is not true. Look at what Jesus prayed when He stood before Lazarus’ tomb. He declared, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.” (John 11:41) He prayed these words even before Lazarus came forth from his tomb alive. Jesus knew that what He said would come to pass because the Father always hears Him. (John 11:42) So what does “Jesus always lives to make intercession for us” mean? Because Jesus is our High Priest (Hebrews 4:14), we get a picture of what happens when we pray when we understand what the high priest in the Old Testament did with the burnt offering of a bird. (Leviticus 1:14–17)The birds brought to the high priest are a picture of our prayers “flying” to the Lord Jesus because we pray to the Father in Jesus’ name. Now, just as the high priest removes the bird’s feathers after killing it, Jesus removes all that is superfluous and unclean from our prayers, such as unbelief and self-centeredness. Then, just as the high priest offers the bird as a burnt sacrifice, a sweet aroma to the Lord, Jesus our High Priest adds His perfection, beauty, excellence and fragrance, which the Father so delights in, to our prayers. That is how He presents our prayers to the Father. That is how He lives to make intercession for you. My friend, you don’t have to run to a church leader to get him to pray “more powerfully” for you. You can pray yourself. Then, take advantage of Jesus’ intercession for you and say, “Lord Jesus, I don’t know what else to say…please intercede for me.” And when Jesus gives His personal touch to your prayer, you can be sure that it will be answered! Thought For The Day Jesus removes all that is superfluous and unclean from our prayers, and adds His perfection, beauty, excellence and fragrance to them! Fertile and Spacious So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live. Exodus 3:8 (NLT) God led the children of Israel to a place where milk and honey flowed like an open oasis of fresh water reserves. In the Old Testament the promise was the promise land, in the New Testament the promise is the promise man Jesus that gives us the promise land. When we follow God’s way of conducting business and living life, we open up the channel of God’s abundance of flowing blessings. Today, follow God’s way of living life and responding. When you do, you will experience Him opening up supernatural, overflowing, and abounding blessings in your life. Heavenly Father, I thank you for caring for me. I ask you to forgive me for allowing the past feelings and regrets to hinder my life. I am living in your abundant and over flowing rivers of blessings. I am favored,loved, redeemed, forgiven, whole, and complete. I love you. In Jesus Name. Amen youtube/watch?v=huFra1mnIVE
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:22:09 +0000
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