The circumstances of a saint’s life are ordained of God. In the
life of a saint there is no such thing as chance. God by His providence
brings you into circumstances that you can’t understand at all, but the
Spirit of God understands. God brings you to places, among people, and
into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the
intercession of the Spirit in you. Never put yourself in front of your
circumstances and say, “I’m going to be my own providence here; I will
watch this closely, or protect myself from that.” All your circumstances
are in the hand of God, and therefore you don’t ever have to think they
are unnatural or unique. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to
agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and
people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His
throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for
them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.
Am I making the Holy Spirit’s work difficult by being vague and
unsure, or by trying to do His work for Him? I must do the human side of
intercession— utilizing the circumstances in which I find myself and
the people who surround me. I must keep my conscious life as a sacred
place for the Holy Spirit. Then as I lift different ones to God through
prayer, the Holy Spirit intercedes for them.
Your intercessions can never be mine, and my intercessions can never
be yours, “. . . but the Spirit Himself makes intercession” in each of
our lives (Romans 8:26). And without that intercession, the lives of others would be left in poverty and in ruin.
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