Encarna

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Encarnação Alliance

• Unleashing the power of intercession of behalf of
  the urban poor.
• The privilege of being an intercessor.

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Advocates for the urban poor

• Every person who has suffered loss needs an
  advocate
• Jesus knows our lost position as a result of the
  fall. He pleads for us before the Father as our
  advocate
• We have the privilege in joining with Jesus in
  this great ministry for the urban poor
• A good advocate understands and empathizes with
  the needs of the needy person
• A good advocate knows an enunciates a just
  solution before the judge

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The ministry of intercession

• In pastoral ministry it is very important for us
  to intercede for the people God has entrusted to
  us to care for.
• 1 Timothy 2 1
• It is a privilege to intercede for others.
• It was an ultimate act of love

• Our shortcomings in discipling, mentoring and
  pastoral care can be overcome through effective
  prayer for those persons we are responsible for.
  Peter addressing the elders encouraged them to
  cast all their anxieties on the Lord I Peter 5
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Intercessory prayer

• Jesus Christ is He who died,
• yes rather who was raised,
• who is at the right hand of
• God, who also intercedes for
• us. Who shall separate us
• from the love of Christ?
• Romans 8 34-35
• "He saw that there was no one,
• and he was appalled that there
• was no one to intercede. . . " Isaiah 5916.

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Understanding intercessory prayer

• The ministry of intercession is unknown to many
  Christians, but it is a very important part of
  the prayer ministry. According to the
  concordance, the word "intercession" means
• 1. "A meeting between" 1 Timothy 21
• 2. "To come or fall upon to meet" Jeremiah
• 7162718
• 3. "To meet with to come between" Romans
• 827,34112 Hebrews 725
• 4. "To meet with on behalf of another" Romans
• 826

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Intercessions role before the throne of grace is
one of advocacy

• The intercessor is moved with compassion
• Advocates on behalf of another
• The Judge is just and loves justice
• Help is available to those who ask

• The subject of the petition is poor and unable to
  pray or advocate for themselves
• The subject is in great need
• The subject does not know the judge

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Scriptural examples of intercession

• 1. Abraham. Genesis 1820-33.
• 2. Moses. Exodus 329-14.
• 3. Daniel. Daniel 92-19 - especially
• 4. Nehemiah. Nehemiah l2-11.
• 5. Elisha 2 Kings 5-6

• Petitioned on behalf of
• Sodom, Gomorrah
• The Israelites
• Judah, inhabitants of Jerusalem, all Israel
• The Jews who were refugees
• Naaman an Aramean

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Jesus as Our Intercessor

• But the great example we have of the ministry of
  intercession is that of the Lord Jesus Himself
  (Romans 834).
• The death of Jesus upon the Cross was an act of
  intercession. He was not dying for his own sin
  and guilt, but for ours. He was bearing God's
  judgment in our place.

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Intercession is to take the place of another

• As He hung upon the Cross, He hung between heaven
  and earth, between God and man.
• That was the final act of intercession for the
  sin of the human race - never to be repeated
  (Romans 610).
• However, from this wonderful act of redemption we
  are given the picture of what the ministry of
  intercession really is - taking the place of
  another in prayer before God.

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The continuing ministry of the Lord Jesus as our
intercessor

• Jesus' ministry in heaven right now, as our
  eternal High Priest, is to intercede before the
  Father for us, His brothers. Hebrews 210-11
  725.
• He is able to make intercession for us because He
  knows how we feel, for He has lived on the earth
  as a man. Hebrews 214 414-15.

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His Priestly ministry

• ). His priestly ministry is also expressed
  through the Church, His Body upon the earth. 1
  Peter 25,9 Revelation 16.
• This kind of intercession is prayer that is
  anointed by the Holy Spirit so that the one
  praying can feel how the person he is praying for
  feels, and often can only be expressed through
  deep, inutterable groans. Romans 826.

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Our Priestly ministry

• In the Old Testament
• Exodus 195-6
• Now then if you will obey my voice and keep
  my covenant, then you shall be my own possession
  among all the peoples, for all the earth is mine,
  and you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy
  nation.

• In the New Testament
• you are a royal priesthood and a holy nation 1
  Peter 29
• And He made them to be a kingdom of priests to
  our God and they will reign upon the earth.
  Rev. 510

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The role we have as priests

• To lead people in holistic worship of God in
  every aspect of their lives.
• To intercede on behalf of others for Gods
  blessing to be poured out into their lives.
• To minister the power of God into the lives of
  those He has made you responsible for.
• To be an holistic example of godliness.

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Praying for one hour?

• Divide the hour into five minute sections and
  start praying for the following
• 1. Praise and exaltation
• 2. Waiting - adoration
• 3. Confession a time of examination of self
• 4. Scripture praying, a time of appropriation
• 5. Watching- observation
• 6. Intercession for the poor - intervention

• 7. Petition for the poor a time of expectation
• 8. Thanksgiving for answers - appreciation
• 9. Singing - edification
• 10. Meditation a time
• of investigation
• 11. Listening - revelation
• 12. Praise jubilation
• Ask the Holy Spirit to help you pray as you
  should.

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Four anointings of intercession

• Around the world, as Christians pray for needs
  that the Holy Spirit lays upon their hearts, they
  sometimes find one of four distinct anointings of
  intercession come upon them, enabling them to
  enter fully into the burden the Lord is giving
  them.

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1. Bearing the burden of the Lord for the
injustice of the evil mankind suffers

• As Workers among the urban poor when praying, we
  feel a sense of deep grieving and sorrow, and
  begin to weep for the injustice of the poor.
• The Holy Spirit has laid a burden on our hearts
  so we can feel how God feels as He intercedes for
  His divided, broken Church, or for an individual,
  a city, its slum dwellers, abused people, corrupt
  leaders, evil systems, nation or a despised or
  rejected people.
• Praying in the Spirit allows the burden to be
  prayed through as the Spirit leads.

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We weep and agonise as he did

• As His Body, we can enter into the same
  heartfelt sorrow that Jesus expressed as He wept
  over Jerusalem (Luke 1941) and as He agonised in
  the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 2637-38).
• And He brings the same challenge to His Body
  today that He brought to His disciples in the
  Garden.
• "Could you men not watch with me for one hour?"
  Matthew 2640.

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2. Compassionate identifica-tion with the needs
of others

• Sometimes the Holy Spirit anoints prayer in such
  a way that the person praying actually feels what
  the other person is going through
• This might be depression, loneliness, rejection,
  condemnation, grief, bitterness, fear, pain, or
  the like
• Thus, just as the Lord Jesus understands what we
  go through, and thus is able to go on our behalf
  before the Father (Hebrews 414-16), the person
  praying will know how to pray for the one in need.

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We are experiencing this for others

• Here the Christian must realise that he is not
  experiencing it for himself, but for someone
  else.
• He is standing in another person's place before
  God (see Galatians 62).

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3. Travail praying until a breakthrough comes

• Another anointing of intercession is that of
  travailing - a deep groaning of the Spirit within
  us to bring something to birth in the spiritual
  realms (Galatians 419).

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4. Warfare

• The fourth anointing of the Holy Spirit in
  intercession is that of spiritual warfare.
• This is a coming against the spiritual powers of
  darkness, battering the gates of hell (Matthew
  1618-19 Mark 327).

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How is this anointing manifested?

• This anointing is not manifest in weeping or
  groaning, but in
• a militant wrestling with the enemy. Ephesians
  612,
• in declaring the Word of God with authority.
  Ephesians 617,
• in praise and in proclaiming Jesus as King of
  Kings, Lord of Lords, and victor over the forces
  of Satan. Philippians 29-11 Revelation 1714.

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We will experience joy and victory!

• With each of these aspects of intercession, the
  Christian should know/sense by faith when the
  victory has been won in the spiritual realms.
• This is true even if it has not yet been
  manifested outwardly.
• The Holy Spirit will lift the burden from him
  with a tremendous sense of joy and victory.

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Armour for intercessors?

• Since the ministry of intercession enters the
  front line of the battle against the enemy -
  taking the battle to him, as it were - it is
  essential that those involved in this ministry
  are protected against counter-attacks.

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1. The covering of a pastor or eldership

• It is extremely important for intercessors to
  move into their ministry under the guidance of
  their pastor or elders. Hebrews 1317.
• This ensures spiritual protection for the
  believer within the context of the Body of
  Christ.
• Their ministry then becomes an extension of the
  rest of the Body of Christ.

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2. For wives The blessing and covering of their
husbands

• It is also necessary that wives are in right
  attitude to their husbands. 1 Corinthians 113.
  Equally important husbands must be in right
  attitude with their wives so their prayers are
  not
• hindered. 1 Peter 37.
• Also, If there is anything wrong in
• a believer's relationship with another
• Christian, it must be sorted out.
• James 516.

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3. Personal armour

• The Apostle Paul exhorts us to put on the whole
  armour of God in our battle against the enemy and
  against his hold on people's lives. Ephesians
  611-19.
• For example, faith is a vital ingredient in the
  ministry of intercession, for without it the
  enemy has a foothold to attack
• and how can we intercede for someone else if we
  don't have on the breastplate of righteousness -
  an awareness of our right standing with God?

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Our Challenge

• In Bible times, men and women changed the course
  of history through intercession.
• Now, in these crucial days when God is bringing
  to closure His glorious plan, the call to obey
  the Spirit comes to us
• "And I searched for a man among them who should
  build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me
  for the land . . . but I found no one" Ezekiel
  2230 .
• Seek the welfare of the City where I have sent
  you, and pray on its behalf, for in its welfare
  you will have welfare Jeremiah 29 7

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