Intercessor

Job

Job made intercession for his children. It didn't work when they were attacked and killed. Job said that God has closed his ears for his prayers. (Job 19:7).After his sufferings, God commanded his three friends to bring sacrifices yet the Lord will not listen to their prayers but only Job's prayer for them. Now Job can pray for someone. This took a painful week for Job to become an intercessor.

Isa. 53:10 ​​​​​​​...the LORD desired to crush him and make him ill. ​​

God desires to crush some one to qualify them to be an intercessor. 

My prayers are answered because at the end of my each prayer i mention the name of the One who crushed for me.

How did I get a laptop

I was in Union Biblical Seminary. Was studying M.Div. In first year my room mate was from Nagaland. His name is Kethozer Aniu Kevichusa. I saw he had a Toshiba laptop. Its mouse was clipped on to its right side. The ball of the mouse was towards up and you have to use your thumb to move it. It looked nice. I thought i would pray the Lord for this. Actually when i went to bible seminary, my family was in debts of more than a lakh. This laptop seems that it costs more than a lakh. When i pray, i would ask the Lord with details of it. Now i want to ask Aniu about computer details in order to put them in prayer. Yet i hesitated because i dont want to appear computer-illiterate. So i did not ask him the details of the computer. The option now i have is to see it in my imagination and ask the Lord, "Lord give me the laptop which i am seeing now".

I prayed for about six months. After six months i wrote semester exams and then there was a week break. I went to Ongole, my home town that week. After I got there, my director James Rebbavarapu's mother asked me to help her in translating a book. So i would go every day morning to their house and help her in translating. One day unexpectedly i saw James in the house. It was a surprise. He came from US. I said hi. He showed me a  a bag and said, "this gift is for you". I went to the bag. Bag was heavy. This is not a bag. It was actually laptop. I opened and i saw the same computer, same company, same model except that it was not color but black and white laptop.

Awesome God. I never told James any details of the laptop. Guess who would have told him the model, color, company about the computer. This all happened in 1998.

Recently I got another laptop. This is also an awesome testimony how God works between two unknown ends. I will share it in another post. Praise God.

Isaiah 6:3-4

Isaiah Chapter 6

v. 3. “Holy, holy, holy"
They could not sing except than what they could see. I don't think we can ask these angels to write a song. Their song cannot be long enough. They sing only few things because they are occupied by many things that they could not comprehend. We understand God the Father by seeing that were created (Rom. 1:20). Angels now seeing the Creator and he cannot be fully grasped. Oh my God!

 v.4. "At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook" 

It seems worship shakes the doorposts and thresholds of any physical things. Acts 16:25-26

 "About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God... Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken...."

In New Testament, we see the same result. When Paul and Silas were singing while praying the prison shook and the doors were opened.

The difference between OT and NT is that, in OT while worship was going on the enemies were confused and killed themselves (2 Chr. 20:21-23). Here in NT jailer also was about to kill himself but since NT comes with a different teaching of forgiveness, Paul saved him. That night the deliverance was not for the Paul and Silas, but it was for the jailer.

Sufferings and Solution

Sufferings come from three areas

1. From human beings.
Solution: Show another cheek and pray for them. (Matt. 5:39)

2. From devil
Solution: Resist him and pray (James 4:7)

3. From God
Solution: Repent and pray (2 Chr. 7:14)

A medicine for leg pain will not help cold.  Do not use first suffering's solution to the second type suffering. Same thing with the third one. For example resisting is the solution for the sufferings from devil and it cannot be used for the sufferings that comes from human beings. Matthew 5:39 NIV "But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."

You cannot resist the evil person but you can actually ask why he is doing this to you. When Jesus was beaten he asked them why they are doing this when he didn't speak wrong. John 18:22-23 NIV "When Jesus said this, one of the officials nearby slapped him in the face. “Is this the way you answer the high priest?” he demanded.  “If I said something wrong,” Jesus replied, “testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?” Injustice can be confronted. Its not wrong. 

In three types of sufferings, prayer is common and a must.

James 5:13 NIV
"Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray..."

With all your heart and with all your time

A man had two sons. When he was about to die, he called them and made them promise him that they would pray daily one hour. He died. From that day each son would go into the church and pray one hour.

Few days later older brother found that his younger brother was praying only 20 minutes and yet getting quick results than he does. So he decided to go and ask and find out the secret. One morning he went to his younger brother's house. Asked him the question. Then the younger brother answered, "when you pray, you are praying one hour but you are conscious of time. You  are not putting your heart there. When I pray, though I pray twenty minutes, I pray with all my heart. That is the secret."

The older brother was happy. He went back home. He started following his younger brother's secret.

Few days later the younger brother found that his older brother is receiving quick answers to his prayers than himself. One day he went to his older brother's house. He asked older brother, "you are following my secret. If you were praying same way I do, how come you are receiving answers more quicker than I do?"

Then the older brother answered, "yes I have been following your secret. I am praying the same way you were praying like putting all your heart while praying. The only difference is that you  pray twenty minutes but I continued one hour. That's it"

Me and Elijah

Bible said that Elijah is same like you and me. Then why i could not do the things he did? Yes he is same like you and me but he did not pray same like you and me. He said to Ahab to go and eat but he Fasted and prayed For rain even after the Lord told him that he is going to send rain! We raise up prayer after God tells us that he is going to send rain.

Hey, you can do it. Just like Elijah do not give up until you see your vision coming true.

(Jas 5:17-18 [NET])
Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months! Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.