UCB Word For Today 22 May 2022 Sunday | Intercede with God for Them
Read and Meditate on Today’s United Christian Broadcasters, UCB Word For Today, Sunday 22nd May 2022. God bless you as you study!
MAY 22, 2022 UCB WORD FOR TODAY DEVOTIONAL
SCRIPTURE: ‘I exhort…that…intercessions…be made.’ 1 Timothy 2:1 NKJV
Paul writes: ‘I exhort…that…intercessions…be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth’ (vv. 1-4 NKJV).
Intercession means ‘to mediate between parties with a view to reconciling those who differ or contend’. It happens every day in the court system when lawyers intercede on behalf of their clients. It also happened in Scripture. When Israel made a golden calf and worshipped it, Moses interceded with God on their behalf, saying: ‘Oh, these people have committed a great sin…Yet now, if You will forgive their sin – but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written’ (Exodus 32:31-32 NKJV). And it worked. God told Moses, ‘Go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you’ (v. 34 NKJV).
Later when Israel turned again to worship false gods, Samuel said, ‘Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray [intercede] to the Lord for you’ (1 Samuel 7:5 NKJV). As a result, the Lord sent a loud thunder upon the Philistines that day, and so confused them that they were defeated before Israel (see 1 Samuel 7:10 NKJV).
Interceding can be a lonely business, and it’s also hard work: ‘Always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God’ (Colossians 4:12 NKJV). But when nothing else works, intercessory prayer does!
BIBLE READING: Luke 9:37-62, Psalms 54-56
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