I can never become one of God’s intercessors without remembering that Jesus Christ made intercession for the transgressors (Isaiah 53:12, KJV). That statement means more than the fact that Jesus prayed for His crucifiers or makes atonement for us. It means He created the office or function of intercession. He made intercession possible. Had He not come as the great interceding.Savior, no one could ever have interceded for anyone else.
For me to become an intercessor, then, means that I am fulfilling a function that Jesus Christ created, that I am doing it for His sake and in His wake. It also means that I have gained a certain level in my relationship to God in which I have gained a certain authority in intercession. Norman P. Grubb calls this the grace of faith. That is not a single answer to prayer, but a whole series of answers based upon my definite standing with God as an intercessor. For example, Moses reached such intimacy with God that he talked with God face to face (Exodus 33:11). As a result of this extremely high privilege, Moses was able to use his authority as an intercessor to save Israel from certain extinction because of their sin in the matter of the golden calf (Exodus 32:10). Had Moses not been there, in the high, holy position of Israel’s intercessor, the nation would have been obliterated.
I think of others who have been there, and I have been challenged! What about Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Paul, Luther, Wesley, and countless others for whose sake people were given the gift of life? Lord, I want to be an interceding disciple, capable of sparing from death and bringing to life those for whom Jesus Christ died! I cannot appoint myself to this ministry (even Jesus did not do that, Hebrews 5:5), but I can live devoted to Him so that He may not pass me by when next He needs an intercessor.
For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus(1 Timothy 2:5).
Daily with the King 