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The Gospel of John in 21 Days, day 19: Intercession
…and their joy. John 17:20-21 Pray for someone who does not yet believe. Intercession
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Bible studies (18)
Chapter study
Philippians 4: Contentment Learned in Chains
…tense: my God shall supply. Hebrews 7:25 says he ever lives to make intercession, and Romans 8:34 places him at the right hand of God interceding for us. The promise of ongoing provision to the Philippians, and to a…
Chapter study
Psalm 23: The LORD Our Shepherd
…says he is able to save to the uttermost because he ever lives to make intercession, and John 14:2-3 has Jesus leaving to prepare a place and returning to bring his own there. The last line of Psalm 23 is not optimism…
Chapter study
Romans 8: No Condemnation, No Defeat, No Separation
…what we should pray for as we ought, and that the Spirit himself makes intercession. Notice who is doing the work in this verse. What weakness does it name, and what does it say meets that weakness? The chain 8:28-30…
Dig Deeper
Can anything separate a believer from the love of God, and what is Christ doing now?
…raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Four things in one sentence, all present tense at the end: died, risen, seated, interceding. The last is what Christ is doing…
Bible study
Romans 8: No Condemnation, No Separation
…as guarantee of inheritance Hebrews 7:25 - He always lives to make intercession The exodus pattern runs beneath the chapter: a people freed from slavery, led by God's presence, given an inheritance. Paul's language of…
Dig Deeper
What does it mean to be in Christ, and how does a person get there?
…verse 9. The image believers are being conformed to, verse 29. The intercession keeping them, verse 34. The love nothing can separate them from, and Paul names it exactly: the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our…
Verse study
Nor any other creature shall be able to separate us (Romans 8:38-39)
…believer's security rests on the Father's purpose, the Son's death and intercession, and the Spirit's indwelling, none of which can be revoked by the believer's worst week. What this means for fear, doubt and suffering…
Reading plan
The Gospel of John in 21 Days
…in him they can have peace even while the world remains hard. John 17 Intercession In this prayer on the night before his crucifixion, Jesus prays not only for his disciples but for everyone who will believe in him…
Devotional
Failure Is Not the End of Following
…who, before the denial, said He had prayed for Peter's faith. Christ's intercession, described in Hebrews 7:25, sustains disciples through failure toward renewed usefulness.
Devotional
Father, Forgive Them
…the same heart that Isaiah 53:12 describes centuries earlier: he made intercession for the transgressors. The cross itself is the forgiveness this prayer requests being enacted.
Devotional
Groanings Too Deep for Words
…for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. WEB Paul has just described creation groaning and believers groaning while waiting for…
Devotional
He Ever Lives to Pray for You
…who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them. WEB The week ends by taking the pressure off your praying. Christ prays for His people, continually, and He is never…
Devotional
Help My Unbelief
…He has prayed that his faith will not fail. Your faith is held by His intercession.
Devotional
Merciful and Just in the Same Breath
…comes right after Israel's sin with the golden calf and Moses' intercession for the people (Exodus 32-33). God is revealing his character to a people who have just proven themselves unfaithful, which means the mercy…
Devotional
Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do Right
…keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice. Abraham's intercession flows directly out of that stated purpose. God's answer to Abraham is not a lecture on justice but repeated agreement: He would spare…
52 Week Journey
Week 4: The Power of Prayer
…who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them. WEB
52 Week Journey
Week 8: The Holy Spirit
…for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. WEB Do Not Grieve the Spirit The Spirit can be resisted, quenched, or grieved. Ephesians…
Bible topics (2)
Biblical concept
Priest
…is the picture Hebrews assumes when it says Jesus always lives to make intercession for us (Hebrews 7:25). Not that He argues with a reluctant Father, but that He is permanently there, in the presence, with His people…
Topic study
Prayer: Speaking with the God who has already spoken
…God in speech: adoration, confession, thanksgiving, petition, lament, intercession, and silence held in his presence. The Bible never presents prayer as a technique. It presents it as the ordinary language of a…
Questions and answers (7)
Bible question
Does God hear my prayers?
…for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. Paul admits that Christians often do not know how to pray according to God's will in the…
Bible question
Can I lose my salvation?
…point was not the strength of Peter's own resolve but Christ's prior intercession for him. Jesus says plainly that he prayed for Peter's faith. The security in this story rests on Christ's intercession, not on Peter's…
Bible question
How should I pray?
…for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes…
Bible question
Who is God?
…making a golden calf Exodus 34 follows the calf of Exodus 32 and Moses' intercession in Exodus 33. God renews the covenant and, before doing so, tells Moses who he is The setting matters enormously. This self…
Bible question
Why did Jesus have to die?
…counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. The chapter closes where it began, with a death that carries sin for many, but now framed as victory and reward…
Bible question
Why does God allow suffering?
…for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. Paul admits that suffering often leaves believers without adequate words. He does not…
Bible question
Why does God seem silent?
…asking God to act for the sake of his own name, seen also in Moses's intercession in Exodus 32. Psalm 13:5 But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation. The turn happens with no new…
Prayer (1)
Prayer
How to Pray When You Have No Words
…for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. Paul does not treat wordlessness as a disqualification from prayer. He treats it as the…
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