Intercession Quotes

“We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. People describe intercession by saying, "It is putting yourself in someone else’s place." That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God’s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.”
― Oswald Chambers

“A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian in Community

“If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Revival God's Way

“In his life Christ is an example showing
us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.”
― Martin Luther

“Do they desire to join me in thanksgiving when they hear how, by your gift, I have come close to you, and do they pray for me when they hear how I am held back by my own weight? ...A brotherly mind will love in me what you teach to be lovable, and will regret in me what you teach to be regrettable. This is a mark of a Christian brother's mind, not an outsider's--not that of 'the sons of aliens whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity' (Ps. 143:7 f.). A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.”
― Dr. Sinclair Ferguson

“... love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

“As prayer without faith is but a beating of the air, so trust without prayer [is] but a presumptuous bravado. He that promises to give, and bids us trust His promises, commands us to pray, and expects obedience to his commands. He will give, but not without our asking.”
― Thomas Lye

“Long before we woke up this morning and long after we go to sleep tonight, the Holy Spirit was and is circling us in prayer. And if that doesn't infuse us with holy confidence, I don't know what will. But it isn't just the Holy Spirit who is interceding for us; the Son of God is interceding for us as well. They are interceding for the will of God to be accomplished in our lives. We are double circled. They are circling us all the time with songs of deliverance.”
― Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle

“Prayer is the mightiest weapon of warfare.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If we pray, we shall have power to prevail.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Prayer is necessary to have power to pray.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Without prayer, we have no power to prevail nor progress.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The essence of prayer is to be filled with the power of the Holy Ghost.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“How desperate are you for the blessing, the breakthrough, the miracle? Desperate enough to pray through the night? How many times are you willing to circle the promise?”
― Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle

“God is still honoring spiritual desperadoes who crash parties and climb trees. God is still honoring those who defy protocol with their bold prayers. God is still honoring those who pray with audacity and tenacity.”
― Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle

“Praying hard is not the past of least resistance; it's usually the path of most resistance because we engage in spiritual warfare. In fact, when we begin interceding for others, we better make sure that others are interceding for us. We need a prayer circle that provides a prayer covering.”
― Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle

“…intercession is impossible until we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts as well.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“Now is the time and the trumpet is being sounded to the whole people of God. We are being called to awaken from slumber and be empowered anew by the Holy Spirit. We must become once again passionate adorers of the Lord and powerful instruments of intercession for the Church and the world.”
― Kim Catherine-Marie Kollins

“If the goal is freedom, be prepared to fight battles you didn't ask for. If the goal is authenticity, be prepared to confront shame that wasn't yours to carry.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“When you pray, pray in such a way that your angels will draw their swords rather than twiddle their thumbs.”
― Franklyn Spence

“The prayer closet is the birthplace of our ministries, not the pulpit. - The Point of the Spear, The Essential Guide to Prophetic Intercession and Spiritual Warfare”
― Franklyn Spence

“Every believer is called to pray, of course, but only a few are called to be intercessors. This is not because it is an elite position for special people but because it is a costly position. Few are willing to pay the price.”
― Franklyn Spence

“Praying is priceless.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Prayer is heart to heart talk with the heavenly father.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The union of those who are destined to help each other on the way to God is deep and mysterious like nothing else on earth.”
― Gertrud von le Fort, El velo de Verónica

“One of the reasons the Church is weak is because most believers have Epileptic Prayer Life.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“To seek the love of those who have fully entered into communion with God, who are at one with His will and filled with His grace, is a natural expression of the life of faith. But in addition to the appeal, praise takes a prominent place, rejoicing at the devout and noble lives of the saints, their deeds and victory, and at the divine guidance manifested in them. They are the witnesses to redemption.”
― Romano Guardini, Art of Praying: The Principles and Methods of Christian Prayer

“The profoundest motive which leads us toward the saints is the desire simply to be in their company — to abide with them. It is love seeking the communion of those who have dedicated their lives to love and who are now fulfilled in it; it is the desire for that holy atmosphere in which the soul can breathe and for the mysterious current which nourishes it; it is the longing for the answer to the ultimate meaning of existence.”
― Romano Guardini, Art of Praying: The Principles and Methods of Christian Prayer