Embracing the Call to Intercede: Ep 7: A Sacred Act of Love

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Music.

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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast with your host,

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Connie Morris, where truth speaks, healing begins, and every word is rooted in faith.

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Before we begin, let us go before the Lord in prayer.

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Father God, we thank you for this moment. We thank you for every listener,

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every heart, and every home represented.

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We invite your presence into this space. As we begin, we stand on the words

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of Jabez in 1 Chronicles 4.10.

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And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, So that thou wouldest bless me

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indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me,

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and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me.

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And God granted him that which he requested.

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Lord, today we echo that same prayer. Bless us indeed.

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Bless every woman listening. Bless her mind, her body, her relationships,

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her dreams, and her destiny.

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Let your blessing not only surround her, but transform her.

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Enlarge our coast. Stretch us beyond what we thought was possible.

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Expand our influence, our impact, and the reach of this message.

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Guide our words, anoint our purpose, and let every episode carry your truth with clarity and power.

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Keep us from evil that it may not grieve us.

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Shield us from harm, from cycles of sorrow, from spiritual attack and emotional heaviness.

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Cover us in your grace so we rise in strength, not in grief,

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in wholeness, not in wounds.

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And just as you granted Jabez what he requested, Lord, grant it unto us.

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Let this podcast be a wellspring of truth, a refuge for healing,

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and a launchpad for purpose. In the mighty name of Jesus, amen.

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Hello, and welcome back to Diary of a Black Woman with your host,

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Connie Morris. As we continue our faith on the go message, we are at interceding for others.

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And I hope that you are enjoying these podcasts, and I hope you are enjoying

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my little intro music. So we're going to start this episode out with Ezekiel 22, 30.

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And I saw for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the

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breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it,

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but I found none. Ezekiel 22, 30.

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We see here in Scripture that.

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God is always seeking for a man that will build up a wall that will stand in

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the breach before the land.

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But then he says, so he would not destroy it.

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But then we see here that he found none. And so we're still on the same topic

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of when God wants to talk.

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And many times when God wants to talk, it may be about you, but many times is

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he wants you to intercede for someone else.

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You know, when God wakes us up in the night or in that early morning hour,

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it's often not just for us, it's for others, for a sacred opportunity to stand

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in the gap for those who cannot or will not pray for themselves.

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Maybe they don't know how. Maybe they think they have done so bad that God will not hear them.

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But he wakes you up. He steps in the room.

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He taps you on the shoulder. Maybe he doesn't tap you on the shoulder,

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but his presence is enough that it wakes you up so that you can pray for someone

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who cannot pray or will not pray for themselves.

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When we think of intercession, intercession is a selfish act of love.

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It's partnering with God to bring his will and blessings into someone else's

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life. And as you know, that the intercession can bring many times,

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I just want to kind of pause here for a minute.

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You know, God will place someone on your heart and you might say,

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what's going on? What's going on?

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You know, and you don't really need to know. He just says he really wants you to pray.

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And I remember there was a time just recently I woke up and there was a friend

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who I haven't seen in a while and she was on my heart really strong.

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And I say, what's going on with them?

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And I reached out to my sister because it was one of her friends.

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And we used to be friends, but she was really friends to my sister.

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And she said, I don't know. I don't have any clue. But then I found out later

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on, within a week or so, that she had a sister who was really sick.

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And within a couple weeks after that, that that sister was really turned out to be turned.

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She was sick. A couple weeks later, she was in ice. Her mouth was speaking deaf.

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God wanted me to intercede for her, for her well-being.

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God wanted to do a miracle in her life. I prayed for her.

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It was an early Saturday morning. I prayed for her and her family,

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gave some instructions that God had told me to give the family.

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I gave it through my sister and they did what was required.

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And now the lady, which is a friend, is now up and in recovery.

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And so those are so powerful because at the time she had quit,

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she said, I don't want to live anymore.

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They were just getting ready to let her die. And God says, no, I need you.

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To intercede because the family had just took her word for it and says,

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you know, she wanted to die, let her die.

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And how does that work in real life? And so when you have, when you are sick

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and you are on your bed, please, please, please, we might say some things we

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don't want to happen, but find some friends who will intercede for you.

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And so that's my little pause right there just to say, hey, surround yourself

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with some praying friends.

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Don't let anyone take your first word because when you're in misery and your

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body is hurting, we say the dumbest things, you know, but don't let someone

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use your dumb things to go ahead and unplug you, right?

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You know, and so when God wakes up, wakes us up in the night,

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remember we are to intercede, to stand in the gap for those who cannot or will

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not pray for themselves.

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At the time, the lady, she could not pray for herself. She was in too much pain.

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She was willing to give up because of that.

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And so she somehow in that long thread of friends and God tapped me on the shoulder,

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go ahead and pray and intercede for her.

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And so that was a powerful moment for me to even see God at work. I didn't see him at work.

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I just heard about it because they're in Michigan and I am in Nebraska.

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The Bible is full of examples of intercession. So it's not something we just

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made up for this podcast.

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Moses pleaded with God on behalf of the Israelites. That was found in Exodus

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32, 11 through 14. And we know Moses and the.

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Abraham interceded for Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis 18, 22-33.

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And Jesus himself prayed for his disciples and for all believers,

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and that's found in John 17.

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Each of these moments reflects God's heart for restoration and reconciliation.

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When we intercede, we align our hearts with God's purposes, calling his kingdom

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to come and his will to be done. These prayers may feel simple or minor at the

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moment, but they carry an eternal weight.

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Never underestimate the power of prayer for someone, especially in the stillness

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of the night, when their distractions are few, where the few and the Spirit's voice is unmistakable.

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That's powerful, right? When you hear God say, when he walks in a room and he

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just tells you, I want you to pray for this person,

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just knowing that that's important because you don't know what's going on in

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their lives, that they may not be able to pray for themselves.

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Just like the story I just shared with you, that that person had pretty much given up.

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The family didn't know what to do.

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And yet God chose me, a friend of the family, to intercede.

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Now understand this, when you intercede for someone, it's not a glamorous job.

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You're not going to reach out and say, hey, you know, I prayed and,

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you know, trying to get some kudos.

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It's not you who healed them. It's you who obeyed and it's God who healed them.

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So when I heard the report from my sister, she says, Connie,

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a miracle has just happened.

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And she gave me the details. And I just had to stop and call her and just praise

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the Lord right there, right now, because it wasn't me.

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It was my obedience to do what God had asked me to do for that moment.

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The prayer is simple, but the weight and the power behind it can do miraculous things.

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So let's go a little bit deeper. Who needs your prayers? As you sit in the stillness,

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ask God to bring a name or a situation to your heart.

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It could be a family member, a friend, even someone you don't know well,

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but who needs a divine intervention?

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And it could be a neighbor. It could be someone you see at the store,

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walking down the street.

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You can see a homeless person. You can just see people out along your daily

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path who God might just prick on your heart to pray for them.

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You don't need the whole story.

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You just need the word of God in your mouth and just pray for them.

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Remember the weight of his word. He said that he is the one that will bring it to pass.

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Past, right? And so just do it. Number two, intercession as spiritual warfare.

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Interceding for others is often part of spiritual warfare.

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Ephesians 6.18 reminds us to pray for all the saints, staying alert and persistent.

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Your prayers can help break chains, heal wounds, and open doors for God to move.

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Isn't that what intercession is about?

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Where we, God uses us to open doors so that he can't move, right? We want him to move.

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It's not about us. We want him to move. Number three, joining in God's work.

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Intercession isn't about convincing God to act, right?

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Because he's waking you up to do it. So he's ready to get to work to do it.

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It's about partnering with him in his work.

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Trust that your prayers align with his will and release his power into the lives

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of others. And so I want you to remember, this is so powerful for me to think

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about this, because many times we do get kind of self-centered.

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We get about me, myself, and I, me, me, me.

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But when we think about interceding for others, even for our enemies,

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our foes, that maybe they cannot or will not pray for themselves.

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And God just picks you, like he picked Moses, to pray for someone,

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like he picked Abraham. him.

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So who needs your prayers? Everyone needs your prayers. But at that particular

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time, who does God have on your heart to pray?

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And many times, I always say many times, we already know who we need to pray

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for, right? We already know who we need to pray for.

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Right now, like I said, I'm dealing with some HOA crisis and it seems like the

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people I'm working with, I don't know what's going on with them.

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They should be like wanting to line up and get things right.

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But, you know, sometimes they need a little help because they will not pray

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for themselves or maybe cannot pray because in your mind, like, how can I explain this?

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Some people, you know, don't have the discernment that they're doing something

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wrong or they have the discernment that they're doing something wrong and they'd

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rather just keep doing it wrong because they've already done it wrong.

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Or, you know, that maybe sometimes you get in too deep and if you try to get

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out, you're going to get in trouble anyway. So you just keep digging a hole for yourself.

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And so I just like, Lord, I'm just going to pray that they just stop digging

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a hole and just begin to just stop.

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And then restoration will begin to occur as they stop digging a hole.

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So I'm praying for restoration.

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Even though I'm like a little upset about everything, I just have on my heart

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to just pray for restoration. Why?

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God's words has weight. Remember, He is the one that will bring it to pass, not you.

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And so who needs your prayers? We just covered that.

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Intercession and spiritual warfare, and then joining in God's work.

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Let's cover some more scriptures.

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James 5.16 tells us that the prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

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So you have God's word that carries weight, and then you have the righteous

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person who also has weight. So that makes their prayers powerful and effective.

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Your prayers matter. God hears them.

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And acts according to his perfect will.

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So that should make you want to pray. That should make you want to actually pray for somebody.

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It doesn't just change you, change them. It changes you too.

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1 Timothy 2, 1 is another scripture. It says, I urge you then,

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first of all, look, you know, first of all, you know how that goes.

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You know that had to be some black person wrote that. First of all,

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just for jokes, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people.

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So when you read that in the Bible, he didn't leave anybody out.

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And so you can't, as a person who's seeking after God's heart,

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decide who don't deserve prayer, right?

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So when God wants to talk and he tells you to pray for someone,

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you can't say, I'm not going to pray for them.

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It says, urge then, first of all, you can roll your head, that petitions,

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prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for all people.

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Intercession is a biblical mandate for believers.

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So a mandate means mandatory.

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And then Galatians 6.2, it says, bear one another's burden and so fulfill the

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law of Christ. for another, for others, is a tangible way to share their burdens

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and reflect Christ's love.

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I think if we would do that more, there wouldn't be such a division.

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You know, we'll pray for people when they're in a crisis.

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How about if we pray for people, period, all the time, and so that we won't

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have any crisis, right? When there's a fire, when there's a flood,

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when there's an earthquake, when there's a tornado.

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Oh, we're so quick to pray in a crisis. But the Bible tells us here in 1 Timothy

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2.1 and Galatians 6.2, first of all, Thanksgiving be made for all people.

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And then in Galatians 6.2, it says, bear one another's burden and so fulfill

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the law of Christ. That's what we're supposed to do.

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As believers, as Christians. That's what we're supposed to do.

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So when God wants to talk, it might not be about you. It might be for somebody else.

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How do you feel about that? Is that something you can do? Are you ready for

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it? So what are some action steps that we can take? Ask and listen.

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Tonight, when God wakes you up, ask, Lord, who needs my prayer?

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Sit quietly and wait for a name, a face, kind of maybe an impression on your

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heart or a situation to come to mind. And then pray. Pray specifically.

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Number two, once someone is brought to your heart, pray specifically for their needs.

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Use scripture to guide your prayers. That's just Psalm 91.

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We got Psalms 23. Psalm 91 for protection. Isaiah 41 for strength.

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And you know, you have your, you got a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29, 11.

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There's so many great scriptures out there that we can pray specifically.

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If you don't know the Holy Spirit or you got those concordance,

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you can look up if there's a need, grab a script, look it up,

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and then pray for that person's need according to the word.

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Why? Because, you should know this, God's word carries weight.

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Step one is ask and listen.

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Two, pray specifically. And number three, we see follow up. If appropriate,

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reach out to the person you pray for to encourage them or let them know you've been praying for them.

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Your act of obedience could be an answer to their prayer.

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Sometimes, yeah, that's a good way.

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Check into them if they ask you to pray or if there's something going on.

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He's not been praying for you.

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And then right then, pray for them again. Hey, this is the prayer I've been praying for you.

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Let them know that you have been uplifting them in prayer. And so the way I

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want to, action steps, you want to ask and listen, pray specifically, and then follow up.

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And I want to pray now. Lord, Father Lord, Father God, thank you for calling

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me to stand in the gap for others.

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I lift up my friends at work.

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I lift up the listeners on this podcast and my family to you,

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trusting that you know their needs even better than I do.

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Using my prayer to bring your peace, healing, and provision into their lives,

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help me to pray with persistence and faith, knowing that you are working all things for their good.

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Thank you for allowing me to partner with you in this sacred work. In Jesus' name, amen.

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The challenge for the week is this. Commit to interceding for one person each day this week.

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Spend a few minutes and focus prayer for them, asking God to move powerfully in their lives.

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Keep a journal of who you prayed for and any updates or insights God gives you

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about their situation. And so that is the challenge for the week is to intercede

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for one person and just get an insight.

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Like when you write their names down, what did you pray for them about? Maybe what scripture?

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And they say, what did you pray about? Sometimes they may ask you.

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You might find some, I've also find out that if you have someone that you have

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ought against, praying for them, it's not like it brings them closer to you.

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God has a way of mending those broken hearts and getting that rift or that heartache

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out of the way. because he's into unity and not division.

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So if this episode has really challenged you or encouraged you to intercede

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for others, you know, share this with someone,

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pray for someone, because we never know if they cannot or will not pray for themselves.

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And so I just want to encourage you to know that God is in the room and he has asked you.

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To be that intercessor. According to the scripture, the scripture I read earlier,

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I'm trying to find it right now, he wants you to stand on the wall,

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stand in the gap for others.

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And can he count on you to do that? I want to close it out with this scripture.

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He says, and I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and

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stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.

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And so we answer that call, Lord, that you don't have to look anymore,

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that you have found us, that we will stand upon the wall, that we will stand

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in the breach before the land so that you will not destroy it.

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Stay strong, stay in prayer, and keep interceding for others.

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See you on the next podcast. As we close this episode of the Diary of a Black

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Woman podcast, we declare the word of the Lord from Jeremiah 29-11.

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I speak this over every listener.

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You will rise again. You will recover what was lost.

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And you will walk boldly into what God has prepared. With no shame, no fear, and no apology.

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May every broken place become a place of breakthrough.

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May every delay become divine preparation. and may the fire of God stir up every

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gift lying dormant within you.

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This is more than a podcast. This is a call to arms.

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We're not just healing. We're rising.

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We're not just telling stories. We're building an army of women walking in truth,

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in power, and in purpose.

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This has been the Diary of a Black Woman podcast with your host, Connie Morris.

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Don't forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone God is calling higher.

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Visit www.diaryofablackwomanllc.com to stay connected, get resources,

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and join the movement. And I'll see you on the next episode,

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because God's not finished, and neither are we.

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Music.