Prayer Secret #7: The Power of Intercessory Prayer

This next prayer secret is another powerful prayer strategy that has to be added to your arsenal. The first six prayer secrets all basically had to do with you learning how to properly approach God the Father for whatever your own personal prayer requests may be with Him. This next prayer secret is now going to take things one step further. This prayer secret will be learning how to step into the gap and pray for someone else’s prayer need before God the Father. This is what is called intercessory prayer.

God is Looking for Intercessory Prayer Warriors

Though most Christians know what this kind of prayer is with the Lord, God the Father makes two very interesting statements in the verses provided. In both of these verses, God makes the statement that He was looking for intercessors, for those who would be willing to step into the gap for another person to pray directly for them. And in both of these verses, it says that He was not able to find one person to do this with Him at the time that He was looking for one. I repeat, He could not find one person to go into the gap at the time that He was looking for one!

Both of these verses are back in the Old Testament, so He was talking to His own Jewish people when He was making these two very intense statements. When you read these first two verses and how God is intensely expressing Himself, you will wonder, is He still having the same kind of problem with His people today, which are all born-again Christians? What we can learn from these two verses is that God the Father is always looking for intercessory prayer warriors who are willing to go into the gap for another person at a moment’s notice.

Scripture Verses on Intercession

All three of these verses are from the Old Testament, but each one of these verses will still apply to every single, New Testament, born-again believer. In these three verses, God the Father is giving all of us an incredible and powerful prayer secret – and that secret is the power of intercessory prayer and how He can be dramatically moved to answer prayer if someone is willing to go into the gap. Here are three extremely powerful verses on this prayer secret:

• “So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.” (Ezekiel 22:30)
• “He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor; therefore His own arm brought salvation for him … (Isaiah 59:16)
• “Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.” (Psalm 106:23)

The Significance of Standing in the Gap

Notice in the first verse that God was actually looking for an intercessor to “stand in the gap“ on behalf of the land so that He would not destroy it. This verse says that God had “sought for a man,” but literally could not find one man who was willing to do this with Him. The fact that God was actually looking for a man to stand in the gap is shouting out a major prayer secret – and that secret is: God is looking for intercessory prayer warriors who will be willing to go into the gap from time to time to pray for someone else’s need, or possibly for an adverse situation that may be developing.

If God is looking for intercessors to go into the gap with Him from time to time – then this means He will answer many of these intercessory prayers if He is properly approached. Think of the ramifications and possibilities with this secret – that we can go into the gap and pray for someone else and have a good chance on getting God to want to move to answer the prayer. If God is telling us that He is actually looking for intercessors, then that tells us that He will be answering many of their prayers, otherwise He would have never bothered making this kind of statement in these first two verses in the first place!

Notice in the second verse that He is once more making the statement that He was looking for an intercessor and once again could not find anyone. Notice the additional statement He then makes in this second verse where He says that He then “wondered that there was no intercessor.” The key word here is the word “wondered.”

Scripture Reference	God's Observation or Requirement
Ezekiel 22:30	Sought for a man who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me.
Isaiah 59:16	He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor.
Psalm 106:23	Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath.