comfort in the intercessory prayer of a friend or a pastor. How much more comfort, then, can we experience from the full assurance that Jesus is praying for us? Have you ever had people ask you, “Pray for me,” and you say, “Sure, I’ll pray for you,” and then you forget? I know that in my lifetime, I have told people that I would pray for them and I forget. If I remember at some point later, I will stop and pray, but often it’s only out of guilt—so that if that person asks whether I prayed, I can tell them that I did. Intercessory prayer is comforting, but we humans can’t always be relied on to
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