Giving Ourselves To Praying For Others

Epaphras Prays Podcast · Oct 17, 2024 · 5m

At that day ye shall ask in My name - John 16:26

To intercede is to pray on behalf of another.

We act as a go-between, or an advocate for someone.

Here are two examples from Mark:

In chapter seven, we see the Savior in the region of Decapolis (v. 31). In the next verse, they brought Him [one who was deaf] and they implored Him to lay His hand on him.

In chapter eight, Jesus is in Bethsaida. In verse 22, they brought Him a man who could not see, and again the ESV records they implored Him to touch him.

These people implored—asked fervently, pleading, begged—for the Lord to do what only He…