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Prayer
hannah123
11 post s
27-Sep-2008
9:05 AM
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I understand that praying 'with' someone is praying together with someone who would be present (either in person, over the ohine, or on the internet, etc), and that praying 'for' someone is intercessory prayer on behalf of someone who may or may not be present. However, is there a special significance to the term praying 'over' someone?
Thank you for clearing this up for me.
May the LORD bless and keep you all.
Last Edited on 27-Sep-2008 9:06 AM
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Rick
483 post s
27-Sep-2008
4:00 PM
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Quite simply, intercessory prayer is the act of praying on behalf of others. The role of mediator in prayer was prevalent in the Old Testament (as in Abraham, Moses, David, Samuel, Hezekiah, Elijah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel). But Christ is pictured in the New Testament as the ultimate intercessor, and because of this all Christian prayer becomes intercession since it is offered to God through and by Christ. Jesus closed the gap between us and God when He died on the cross. He was the greatest mediator (intercessor) that ever lived. Because of this we can now intercede in prayer on behalf of other Christians, or for the lost, asking God to grant them repentance according to His will. "For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy 2:5). "Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us" (Romans 8:34).
http://www.gotquestions.org/intercessory-prayer.html
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