Prayer Warrior

Intercession is not for the faint of heart, but the rewards can be the most gratifying. None is more noble than the prayer warrior.

April’s Awakening, Day 6

A prayer warrior is a person who is convinced that God is omnipotent—that God has the power to do anything, to change anyone, and to intervene in any circumstance. A person who truly believes this refuses to doubt God.

 —Author Unknown  

Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

 —Oswald Chambers

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

 —Martin Luther  

I have benefited by my praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them, I have gotten something for myself.

 —Samuel Rutherford  

Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured. I vouch for him that he is working hard for you and for those at Laodicea and Hierapolis. Colossians 4:12–13 NIV

            If you have read Book 1 in this devotional series, Renew My Heart, O God, then you should remember Epaphras, the prayer warrior who wrestles constantly in prayer for others that they may “stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured.” Epaphras was the prayer warrior, the intercessor, who repeatedly was standing in the gap, lifting up prayers on behalf of the fellow believers. An intercessor is a true servant of God who has such a heart for people that the greatest joy comes from seeing answered prayer. Seeing people come to Christ, chains of sin broken, addictions overcome, pain and turmoil released, hope gained, and transformed lives into images of Christ are the rewards of the prayer warrior. Intercession is not for the faint of heart, for the battles and wars raged in the spiritual realm are like trench warfare and you’re the front line, and sometimes you’re all alone, and lives are at stake.        

            If you have a heart for people, and to see lives transformed and changed into the image of Christ, and have a heart for prayer—then be the prayer warrior, like Epaphras, who constantly wrestles and does battle in the spiritual realm to see God’s mighty hand move. Someone has always been praying for me. Someone has prayed for you. Be the one who is praying for someone now.