Principles of Intercession
Notes
(These
are my own notes that I wrote down, and later on will develop it more fully. I
did not get this information from others' teachings, but from my own studies. A
friend of mine called me up and asked me for information about intercession.
These are the notes I wrote down, as the Holy Spirit was showing me things.
There's so much more along the subject of intercession that I have not tapped
into yet or learned, but here are some points that the Lord showed me.)
Intercession
is Davidic Authority (Kingdom authority) or also known as the “Key of David”
(Revelation 3:7).
The
Key of David refers to intercession, kingly dominion, praise and worship.
Davidic
authority involves the roles of prophet, priest and king.
An
intercessor flows in the authority of prophet, priest and king.
King
David, and his way of operating in his kingdom rule, was a foreshadowing of
Jesus Christ and the kingdom authority of New Testament believers.
In
the Old Testament, priests, prophets and kings were appointed (or at least a
prophet was recognized and called a prophet after having been tested and
proven).
A
priest could not be a king, and a king could not be a priest. The priests were
of the tribe of Levi and the kings came from the tribe of Judah. Prophets came
from all 12 tribes, but usually did not operate in the role of priests or
kings, although they were close associates with kings and priests. The roles of
prophets, kings and priests were kept separate.
King
David was an exception. He didn’t fit the typical protocol of his day. He was a
king, priest and prophet simultaneously — just like Jesus Christ who is the
King (King of kings), Priest (Great High Priest) and Prophet.
Melchizadek
(mentioned in Genesis, Psalm 110, and Hebrews) was also a type and shadow of
Christ (and maybe Christ pre-incarnate), as he was a king, high priest and
prophet all in one. Jesus' priesthood does not originate from the earthly
priesthood (the line of Aaron), but He is a priest forever after the order of
Melchizadek (an eternal priesthood).
New
Testament believers are called to walk in this same priestly/kingly/prophetic
anointing (1 Peter 2:9; Revelation 1:6, 5:10).
The
Greek mindset (which governs the Western world) categorizes things into
different areas of our lives — which causes us to be fragmented. That means,
that in one area we are a certain person, and in a different area we are
someone else, or that one area of our life is not connected to or does not
affect a different area of our life.
Or,
the other way of looking at it is that some people are priests, some are
prophets and some operate in governmental authority. While that is true, the
roles of king, priest and prophet overlap and intertwine. It’s hard to
distinguish where one role ends and the other role starts. God has called all
believers to walk in governmental kingdom authority (which means that we take
on the role as king, prophet and priest simultaneously, as these roles overlap
and are connected and related to each other).
The
Jewish mindset is that we are complete whole persons, and that all “areas” or
“roles” of our lives are connected and intertwined, and related to each other.
It all springs from our heart or deepest inner being. The Bible is based on the
Jewish mindset, not that of the Greek or Western world.
An
intercessor has a prophetic anointing, priestly anointing, and kingly
anointing. These roles overlap and are intertwined.
An
intercessor does spiritual warfare, which is the kingly anointing. An
intercessor operates in governmental authority (especially intercessors who
impact nations and political or moral issues). That is a kingly anointing.
An
intercessor receives a prophetic word from the Lord or receives a vision from
God and prophesies it into existence. They declare and decree. They call things
that are not as though they were. That is the prophetic anointing.
Intercession
often involves fasting. The most common fast among the Hebrews was a one-day
fast. Other fasts mentioned in the Bible are a 3-day fast, 21-day fast, and
three references to a 40-day fast.
Roles of Priest, Prophet
and King in Intercession
Priestly Intercession —
Lamb
To
identify with the feelings and infirmities of the person to whom you are
standing in the gap for. To have compassion. To be the middle person pleading
and petitioning God’s Throne on behalf of someone else. To weep tears of
intercession for someone.
The
priest also is the worshipper. Worship is a form of intercession and spiritual
warfare. The priest offers spiritual sacrifices: praise, thanks, joy, lifting
up holy hands, purity.
The
priest is self-sacrificial, meaning he/she pours his/her life out to help
others and has died to self and is resurrected in Christ.
The
priest is also self-sacrificial in the sense of taking on the role as the lamb.
Sin and guilt was conferred over to an innocent lamb. The priest accepts the
burden of guilt and repents before God for sins that he/she may have never
personally committed. An example of this are intercessors who repent before God
for the sins of this nation as if they are personally guilty, even if they
never had committed those sins themselves.
The
priest is mature and seasoned, able to instruct the babes in Christ. The priest
is a role model to others. The priest brings comfort to others. The priest
lives his/her life separate from the world. He/she goes all the way with God
and does not have one foot in the world and one foot in the Church. The sacred
(Spirit-led life) and the secular (carnality) don’t mix.
Prophetic Intercession —
Eagle
Forthtelling
and foretelling; preacher; declares and decrees the Word of the Lord. The
prophet hears what the Spirit is saying to the Church today and reveals the
mind of the Lord to the Body of Christ.
The
prophet is alert to the seasons, and announces to people the upcoming season.
The prophet helps to prepare and launch people into their next season. The
prophet helps to bring people into the new things of God. The prophet helps to
inspire people to take action where action is needed.
The
prophet installs people into ministry offices and conducts presbyteries.
Presbyteries are ceremonies or services set aside for the laying on of hands by
prophetic and seasoned men and women of God. Certain ones may be ordained into
ministry. In presbyteries, prophetic words are spoken over various people.
Those prophetic words may include personal words, but usually are focused on
ministry callings, purpose and destiny. Those prophetic words help launch or
propel people into the destiny God has prepared for them, as an anointing and
gifts are imparted through the laying on of hands. 1 Timothy 4:14 “Neglect not
the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on
of the hands of the presbytery.” Other churches may have a different name for
this type of prophesying.
A
prophet also receives personal words for people. Depending on what the word is,
an intercessor may share it with the person or may keep it to themselves and
pray about it. Intercessors must be found to be trustworthy people who can keep
some things confidential when it pertains to personal matters.
The
prophet calls those things that are not as though they were. They operate in
the word of knowledge and word of wisdom. They exhort, edify, comfort, and
forewarn.
Prophets
are seers in the Spirit. God shows them things (in their spirit, mental images,
visions, dreams, words of knowledge, and also rhema words through quickened
Scriptures). God speaks to them through a variety of other ways. The prophetic
person often has supernatural encounters, such as visions, angelic visitations,
understand symbolism, etc.
In
intercession, God reveals His will and destiny, and intercessors prophesy it
into existence. God may reveal the plots and schemes of the devil, and
intercessors are able to block it and foil it through prophetic intercession.
The
intercessor has learned to be the prophet over their own life. While they
receive true prophets of God, they have learned not to depend on other people
to hear God for them. They have learned to hear God for themselves and get
their own prophetic word, and then begin to decree, confess and prophesy it
into existence.
Kingly Intercession — Lion
Taking
your rightful place of authority that Jesus conferred to New Testament
believers. Royalty. Ruling and reigning. Decreeing and declaring the will of
God and the Word of God in a certain situation.
Mighty
warriors in the Spirit. Using their authority to tread over serpents and
scorpions and all the power of the enemy, until their enemies become their
footstool.
They
take authority over the devil and command him to get his hands off their
children, their health, their money, their ministry, their family, etc. Then
they declare what God promised in His Word, and they also declare what they
would like to happen.
Kingly
intercessors have the power to immobilize demonic forces and put them in
fetters and shut their mouths. They have the authority to execute vengeance on
the devil and works of darkness, as there is vengeance in the Blood of Jesus on
all wicked spirits and the Name of Jesus causes demons to tremble and flee.
Kingly
intercessors possess the keys (a symbol of authority) that unlock or lock
doors.
Kingly
intercessors operate in governmental authority. They impact and bring change to
nations, countries, cities, to government, etc. They bring the Kingdom of God
into the earth realm.
Kingly
intercessors are spiritual bulldog lawyers. They stand in the high court of
heaven pleading their case, and commanding the lower court of this earth to
come into conformity with the decree of Heaven. (A lower court must always obey
the decree of the higher court.) They are like that poor widow woman who kept
on returning to the unjust judge to avenge her of her adversaries. These kind
of intercessors will not stop pounding the court room door of Heaven until they
receive their breakthrough. They are persistent until they receive each and
every promise that God promised them and their loved ones.
They
demand their rights and privileges which were given to us by Christ and will
not put up with the devil stealing from them. They especially have no tolerance
or mercy for the Jezebel and Athaliah spirits, as these spirits hate prophets
and seek to take them out. Kingly intercessors pronounce judgment on the evil
works of the enemy.
The
kingly intercessor knows who they are in Christ and their confidence, security
and validation is found in Him. They operate in the revelation that they are
seated in the Heavenly realms with Christ Jesus, and they think and act like a
king. A king doesn’t think in terms of being a pauper, but of abundant supply.
A king doesn’t think defeat, but victory.
The
kingly intercessor plants and plucks up. They plow the soil and they also
plunder. They bind and loose.
Kingly
intercessors don’t do this kind of intercession in their own strength, as they
know it would be foolishness. They act in wisdom, and only do and say what God
commands them to do. They have the revelation, and personal experience, of
God’s angelic forces working on their side. Angels are sent to minister for us,
and they hearken to the word of the Lord. Angels are able to go places we can’t
go, to do things we can’t do, and they know more about the situation than we
do. The angels do spiritual warfare. The angels intervene on our behalf. These
intercessors have had angelic encounters, and have gone through experiences
where they knew that God dispatched angels to help them.
English Definitions of
Intercessor or Intercession:
1.
Entreaty in favor of another, especially a prayer or petition to God in
behalf of another.
2.
To stand between. To intervene.
3.
Mediation in a dispute. A legal term, i.e., lawyer, advocate, mediator.
4.
To plead the case of another.
Greek
(New Testament) definitions of Intercessor or Intercession:
There
are two primary Greek words which are translated in the New Testament as
“intercession”.
1.
entungchanoo
Scriptures
containing this Greek word:
Romans
8:27, 34
Romans
11:2
Hebrews
7:25
2.
huper-entungchanoo
Scripture
containing this Greek word:
Romans
8:26
Definition of entungchanoo:
Strong’s
#: NT:1793 entungchanoo (from #1722 and #5177)
Note:
(The
word “Strong’s” is referring to Strong’s Concordance of Hebrew & Greek
words and definitions. “NT” means “New Testament”. “OT” stands for “Old
Testament”. Strong’s Concordance assigns a number for every Hebrew and Greek
word used in the Bible — they have a section for Hebrew Old Testament and a
section for Greek New Testament. Their concordance is based on the King James
Version English translation.)
Definition
of #1793 entungchanoo:
1.
To light upon a person or a thing, to fall in with, to hit upon, a
person or a thing.
2.
To go to or meet a person, especially for the purpose of conversation,
consultation, or supplication.
The
“from #1722 and #5177” is referring to the roots or history of the word. In
this case, the word entungchanoo has its roots in two Greek words and meanings
that were joined together to form one word reflecting both of the root word
meanings.
1.
#NT:1722 en; a primary preposition denoting a fixed position (in place,
time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or
constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between).
2.
#NT:5177 tugchano; to make ready or bring to pass; the idea of
effecting; to affect; or (specifically) to hit or light upon (as a mark to be
reached); to attain or secure an object or end; to happen (as if meeting with).
Therefore,
if you took the main definition of the Greek word entungchanoo, plus the
definitions of the roots of this word, then intercession would be defined as:
· Supplication on behalf of another
· A mediator, a go-between
· To make an impact on
someone or something
· To hit (punch) hard as if
to knock out like in a boxing match ring (not socking people, but the evil
spirits behind their deeds)
· The intercessor is
aggressive in attaining or securing something
· The decrees and actions of
the intercessor makes things happen, makes things become ready, causes things
to come to pass
· The intercessor stands in a
fixed (unbending, unwavering) position. An intercessor must have rods of steel
to stand up to the enemy forces that are behind evil works.
· The intercessor acts as a
lawyer pleading the case of another or for nations in the high court of Heaven.
· The intercessor takes their
place of authority that Jesus granted to all believers. Jesus said that He has
given us power and authority to tread over serpents and scorpions and over all
the works of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means harm us.
According
to this definition, intercession is more than prayers and petitions. It is
being militant in the Spirit.
The
second Greek word that is translated as “intercession” is huper-entungchanoo.
This word is found in Romans 8:26. It means: “to intercede on behalf of”.
This
Greek word has the same definition as entungchanoo, except the word “huper” is
added.
Huper
is defined as: exceeding; above and beyond; over and abundant.
Romans
8:26 is talking about the Holy Spirit interceding for us. Perhaps the Greek
word “huper” was added to the word entungchanoo to express the idea of the
magnitude or enormity of how much the Holy Spirit intercedes for us. Also, the
Holy Spirit is the only One who prays the perfect will and mind of God, because
He is God and knows all things and knows the Father’s thoughts and heart. He
knows us better than we know ourselves, and He knows the complete facts about
other people and situations that we are interceding for.
Intercession
in the Bible not only speaks of praying on behalf of someone else, but an
intercessor is the same as an advocate. It is a legal term, speaking of a
lawyer representing his/her client in a court room.
Intercessors
are like spiritual lawyers. They petition the high court of Heaven on behalf of
someone or something. They go to battle until the victory is won. They clearly
present their case. They demand their rights and privileges. They have to be
tough and fierce like the lion, showing no mercy to wickedness. They go after
the enemy like a bulldog. They put a restraining order on the enemy. They
demand restitution. They seek after justice and righteousness.
Intercession in the Old
Testament
A
few references to intercession in the Old Testament:
Isaiah
53:12 – Messianic prophecy speaking of Jesus as Intercessor
Isaiah
59:16 – Messianic prophecy speaking of Jesus as Intercessor
Ezekiel
22:30 – Standing in the gap for others, taking up the hedge
2
Chronicles 7:14 – Intercession, repentance, turning from wicked ways
Genesis
20:17 – Abraham prays for the healing for Abimelech’s household
Numbers
21:7 – Moses intercedes to God to remove the serpents from the camp
Nehemiah
1:4 – Nehemiah intercedes on behalf of the people
Jeremiah
27:8 – Intercession that vessels in the Temple not be taken to Babylon
Hebrew word for
intercession: paga`
Definition
of OT:6293 paga` — to encounter, to meet, to reach, to entreat, to make
intercession
1.
to meet, to light upon, to join
2.
to meet (used of kindness)
3.
to encounter, to fall upon (used of hostility)
4.
to encounter, to entreat (used of a request)
5.
to strike, to touch (used of boundary)
6.
to cause to entreat
7.
to make entreaty, to interpose
8.
to make attack
9.
to reach the mark
Intercession of the Spirit
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
(Romans
8:26,27; John 14:26). “Christ is a royal Priest (Zechariah 6:13). From the same
throne, as King, he dispenses his Spirit to all the objects of his care, while
as Priest he intercedes for them. The Spirit acts for him, taking only of his
things. They both act with one consent, Christ as principal, the Spirit as his
agent. Christ intercedes for us, without us, as our advocate in heaven,
according to the provisions of the everlasting covenant. The Holy Spirit works
upon our minds and hearts, enlightening and quickening, and thus determining
our desires ‘according to the will of God,’ as our advocate within us. The work
of the one is complementary to that of the other, and together they form a
complete whole.”
Prophetic words spoken at
my church in February 2011 at a Harp and Bowl Meeting
Isaiah
22:22 AMP
Key of David
And
the key of the house of David I will lay upon his shoulder; he shall open and
no one shall shut, he shall shut and no one shall open.
The
Key of David refers to authority in the Spirit. A key is access to lock and
unlock doors. The Key of David also speaks of the 3-fold role of prophet,
priest and king, especially in the ministry of intercession. The Key of David
involves worship (especially prophetic worship). Worship and praise is the
password for entering into God’s Throne Room.
Isaiah
2:2 KJV
Nations shall flow through us
And
it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house
shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above
the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
We
are entering into:
1.
Health
2.
Happiness
3.
Holiness
Divine
merger.
Fresh
anointing. Fresh oil.
He
(Jesus) is Baal-Perazim = Lord of the Breakthrough.
God
is birthing kings in the Spirit (the Bible says we are kings and priests, a
royal priesthood). These kings will take on the 7 mountains (7 worldly
systems):
1.
Family
2.
Government
3.
Business
4.
Education
5.
Religion
6.
Media
7.
Arts and Entertainment
There
is the spirit of momentum and escalation. You will get more done in less time.
There is a remnant who will arise and build by faith.
These
kings will release God’s children from a poverty and beggar’s mentality. God’s
people will be infused with the spirit of dominion, at which the oceans would
obey at our mouth. (The oceans refer to the sea of humanity.) Kings and Priests
are being raised up.
It is God's will that no one should perish (end up in hell), but that ALL should come to repentance.
For God so loved this world that He gave His only begotton Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God did not send His Son into this world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him would be saved.
The thief (Satan the devil) comes only for to kill, steal and destroy. But Jesus has come to give us life, and life more abundantly, until it overflows.
I urge you to come to the Cross today and receive Jesus as your Savior and Lord. He will wash away all your sins and make you as clean and white as fresh snow.
Just pray this prayer and mean it with your heart:
Dear Lord Jesus (if you are not able to call him Lord yet, then just say "Jesus")
I receive You as my Savior and Lord. I give my life over to You. I believe that You died and rose again, and that if I call on the Name of the Lord I shall be saved.
I accept you into my heart right now, and confess that You are Lord and have risen from the dead and forever live to make intercession for me.
Thank You for washing my heart pure and clean and making me whole, and for giving me peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Thank You that now I am a new creature in Christ Jesus. The old has gone and the new has come.
And there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh (carnality and sin), but walk after the Spirit. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
If you prayed this prayer, I believe you got born again and are now heaven bound and will be with the Lord forever and have eternal life. Your sins are now forgiven. You are accepted in the Beloved.
I would encourage you to find a good Bible based local church to help you grow in your faith, to learn the Word of God, to praise and worship Him, and to have fellowship with the saints.
Serving Christ is the best decision you will ever make.
God bless you!!!
