Intercessory Prayer – Part I

Lesson Outline for Feb 5, 2026

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Goal – Understand the intercessor’s relationship with our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit is essential to “avail much”

• How much of our prayers are about us, what we want or need? Why?
• How much of our prayers are for others?
• Effective intercessors understand their relationship with our Triune and Living God
• Next week will be “Part II” as we look more into the New Testament

Hebrew and Greek Terms / Definitions

• intercede #G5241 “hyperentygchano” – to make a petition on behalf of another, be a stand between for another – to come between
• destroy #G3089 “lyo” – to release the bonds, annul, to do away with, do away with, unloose a binding force

Intercessor characteristics and traits – steadfast, committed, persistent, righteous, fierce, compassionate, repentant, loving, knows their authority, weapons and defenses; understands their relationship and position with our Father, His Son and our Savior Jesus Christ and God’s Holy Spirit

Intercessor examples – Abraham, Moses, Samuel, Esther, Elijah, Elisha, Daniel, Jeremiah, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit

The green is the author’s notations in the verses below. Bold text added for emphasis

Intercessors are prayer warriors

Prayer warriors are both fierce and compassionate

Josh 14:6-7, 10, 12-13 ESV – “6 Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. … 10 And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. … 12 So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.” 13 Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Calebthe son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.”

• Caleb was a mighty warrior for our LORD because of his RELATIONSHIP with God
• Caleb persevered and conquered – an overcomer for +45 years; Caleb contended / interceded and fought on behalf of Israel
• When Caleb at 85 – continued to serve God with all his heart – going on to defeat remaining giants
• Caleb reminded Joshua (his battle buddy) of our LORD’S promise – after 45 years
• Caleb given the Hebron hill country. Hebron means “association” and “friendship”
• Caleb’s close relationship with God made him a conqueror. I believe Caleb was a praying man
• We can have a relationship like Caleb with God. We were created to overcomer – Christians are “more than conquers” (Rom 8:37)

Relationship with Father God

Abundance, protection, healing, provision and blessing flow from “Our Father…”

Matt 6:9 NLT – “Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.”

2 Cor 5:14-15 ESV – “14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.”

• Notice how Jesus tells us to approach God – as Father – an intimate relationship
• Jesus did NOT say “our Provider, our Healer, our Deliverer, our Master” etc
• Jesus Christ and our faith in His sacrifice gives us access to our Father (John 14:6)
• When we come to the Father through Jesus Christ the “legal right” of sin is put under His blood – in the Name (authority) of Jesus Christ
• We intercede for others by His authority, seeking His will be done
• Our motives in prayer come from our LOVE relationship, we don’t live for ourselves

Our intercession is effective by God’s authority

Our Father responds because of His Son Jesus Christ’s merit and our faith in Jesus Christ

Gen 18:22-24, 32-33 ESV – “22 So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the LORD. 23 Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? … 32 Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.” 33 And the LORD went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.”

Exo 33:11, 17 ESV – “11 Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent. … 17 And the LORD said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.””

Exodus 32 – 34 demonstrates an intimate love relationship between Moses and God as Moses interceded for Israel.

1 John 3:8 ESV – “Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy (unbound, broke) the works of the devil.”

• Both Abraham and Moses intercede for others’ sin in faith for Israel, Lot, etc
• Intimate relationship gave them boldness, not arrogance. God knew them by name
• God knows us by name too; God desires us to be in close relationship with Him
• Both understood their authority in God; John the apostle underscored this in his letter
• Our LORD is pleased when we intercede for others
• Both understood the family relationship, Moses says “…, take us for your inheritance” (Ex 34:9)
• Jesus Christ “broke, released, unbound,” DESTROYED the works of Satan; it’s His authority given to us to break every evil bond in our life. “Destroyed” context is undo or break something legally binding
• The blood of Jesus Christ, in the name (authority) of Jesus Christ overcomes the enemy and breaks the devil’s legal hold

Consider– Intercessors don’t come to the Father based on their own worthiness, or the person for whom they pray. We come to the Father based on Jesus Christ’s shed blood, on the merits of Jesus Christ – the one who destroyed the works of Satan

Last thoughts and considerations

• Our access to Father God comes through His Son, our Savior Jesus Christ
• The intercessors in the Bible had close relationships with our LORD
• Intercessors were not immune from hardship or spiritual attacks
• We are to pray and intercede for others
• Intercessors need to be in a close LOVE relationship with God
• Intercessors are prayer warriors – fierce and compassionate – like Caleb
• Effective intercessors understand relationship, spiritual laws and authority
• Intercessors are humble, persistent – relentless – “more than conquers”
• Men, we must intercede over our families and territory – we’re the 1^st line of offense
• Part II next week as we look more through the New Testament and God’s promises

Additional verses for self-study

Exo 32:9-14 ESV – “9 And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. 10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.” 11 But Moses implored the LORD his God and said, “O LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'” 14 And the LORD relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.”

• V10 – looks like appears Moses would not let our LORD alone over the matter
• Moses was humble – he did not want a great nation made from him
• Moses contended for the promises God made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

Exo 34:5-9 ESV – “5 The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name (authority) of the LORD. 6 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” 8 And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. 9 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

• Moses understood his position and authority God gave him
• God’s love is merciful, gracious and slow to anger –
• God points out our sin because He loves us: He wants us to repent and have our sin forgiven

Deut 10:10 ESV – “I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the LORD listened to me that time also. The LORD was unwilling to destroy you.”

• Moses was persistent in interceding