By John Abiola.
*”Pray for us* that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you. And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have no faith “. 2Thessalonians 3:1-2.
In almost all of the Epistles, it appeared that Paul would sometimes seek prayer support from the brethren because of the strong, devastating impact of his ministry against the dark kingdom, for the advance of the Gospel, Church growth, and multitudes of saved souls into God’s Kingdom.
Hence, Paul coveted the prayers of believers to be strengthened, encouraged, and backed up, for no man is an island on his own.
The Ministry of Intercession is one of the greatest ministries given to us. It is that ministry which plunders hell for Cavalry’s sake, and because of its great havoc in the kingdom of darkness, and its effectiveness, Satan responds very aggressively against the labourers, waging war against them to distract them, make them weary, weaken them and in other cases destroy them.
Therefore, prayer support becomes very important for them as it surges energy for their protection.
Intercessors are going through a lot. They need Christians to support them in all ramifications to keep them focused on their knee.
The cry of a lonely Intercessor at the forefront of a serious battle.
Here is a letter from a full-time Intercessor, written to me. Several others are going through similar and even more severe assaults from the devil to distract them and hinder them from continuing their work. Let us pray for them, and support them in all ramifications, both spiritually and financially.
“Dear God’s General John Abiola,
Thank you very much for
offering your life to be an intercessor. The article you wrote
“Intercession: A most powerful weapon in church, how to explore it” has helped me to understand that intercessors sometimes go without food.
I am new in the Ministry of Intercession
I find it hard. I have been chased from a house because My God was fighting the landlady’s gods. I moved to a worse place. I have no money, no job, no one helps me. My father, mother, and some siblings are destroying my life.
I find it difficult to believe that this Mighty God I serve can fail to help His ministers.
Ministers are giving in to sin because of a lack of money. Does it have to be this way, Brother?
In the Bible, it says that no warrior goes to war at his own expense. If kingdoms of the world provide for their army, can’t our commander-chief provide for His army? He Can. He did it for Israel many times in the Bible. Why do we suffer then?
Am I wrong to place a demand on God to change this situation for all of us?
We are supposed to be the city set on the hill, yet everyone hates my life and they talk ill of My God.
My son’s faith in God is not stable because he has been out of school and gone hungry many times. Yet when his mother prays for strangers, God answers her.
I’ve heard it preached that God has a store room full of provision for His people, which people more than those that pray for His Kingdom to come and His will to be done on earth? Those employed by God Himself, full-time, with no source of income?
I have lost a lot of weight. I battle with low blood level, high blood sugar, poor diet, malnutritional diseases… What does God gain if I die of hunger?
How do I carry out the mandate to win souls if my life is detestable to people? ( apart from using prayer)
Where I live, intercession is a repulsive ministry yet, “it is the highest calling”
My prayer is now filled with asking God to change my situation instead of praying for others.
I got so broken when I learned that God had permitted my suffering. I lost the zeal to pray. I was hurt. Deeply hurt. All my life I have been ill-treated and openly segregated, especially by my mother. No matter how much I tried to be the best, I was no good. So when I learned that God’s hand was in my suffering, I felt He hates me just like my father!
I guess my question is, when God’s hand is in my suffering, how do I pray?
How do I move forward?
What do I do?
I am stuck there.
Thank you very much for your kind attention”.
This letter was written to me, a reality, and the same for almost all Intercessors because of the effectiveness of the ministry.
Please join me and other intercessors in prayers, the fall of an Intercessor will not only affect him or her but also the church, nation, leaders, Christian homes, Christianity, and community amongst others because they have been called into a ministry that angers hell, that sets captives free, just on their knees.
My prayer for Intercessors around the world.
Join us in prayer!
Thank You our Heavenly Father, our greatest Intercessor, Jesus Christ who ever lives interceding for us ceaselessly, and blessed Holy Spirit who teaches us how to do the work of Intercession. Thank You for my life and others whom You have called and raised in the frontline of the battle against Satan, the hosts of the dark kingdom and satanic strongholds, oppositions, and confrontations so that Your glory, righteousness, and justice might be revealed to humanity, in our communities, cities and all the Nations of the Earth through our Lord Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of the world in the precious name of Jesus Christ. Amen!!!
Father, the battle is fierce, Your enemy, Satan, and his high and lower-ranking demons are tenaciously attacking Your front liners (Intercessors) to weary and bring them down through their weapons of war. He has succeeded in bringing many full-time Intercessors down from their calling and duty post, shifting them into pastoral ministries, vocations, and businesses. There is a great shortage of Intercessors. Please, Lord God, arise in Your mercy and as a man of war and deliverer to deliver and restore them in the name of Jesus Christ.
Father, I ask for your quick Intervention and deliverance on behalf of your Intercessors around the world from Satan and his greatest attacks that he has released against them. Some of them have been seriously wounded emotionally, spiritually, financially, and in other aspects.
Some are currently undergoing severe challenges and attacks on their lives, spouses, children, health, finances, families, marriages, as regards provision, relationships, and even life-threatening issues, some are going through financial constraints and severe hunger. These assaults are consistently and persistently projected as a result of the positive effect of their effective prayers and intercessions.
Oh God, make these assaults powerless against them in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen!
Father, also open the eyes of the church leaders, and even Christians to the revelational knowledge of the high calling, and the relevance of Intercessors in the body of Christ, both for the numerical and spiritual growth of the church, successive ministry of the church leaders, missionaries, preachers, clerics, businessmen and women, and peace in Christian homes and families, for the gospel advancement to the nations, world evangelization and for the second coming of Christ.
Open their eyes and understanding to the awareness that it is expedient that they support intercessors spiritually and financially, to keep them on their knees, focused on prayers, Intercessions, and their ministerial assignment in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen!
Father, release Your protective shield and wall upon intercessors, their family, vision, calling, health, finances, provision, loved ones and all that concerns them wherever they are around the world. Deliver them from arrows, attacks, spells, falsehood, manipulations, lies, sins, self, errors, mistakes, deceptions, and other weapons of the devil targeted against them in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen!
Father, provide the needs of intercessors in my nation, Nigeria, and all over the world, both part-time and full-time, who have abandoned all to seek you in seclusion, day and night, depending on you solely. Please provide all their financial and spiritual needs in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen!
Father, Your intercessors need sufficient grace, strength, wisdom, discernment, sensitivity of the Holy Spirit, and power regularly to be in Your presence, and their wrestle against Satan and the hosts of the dark kingdom. They need your backup, Father back them up with your strength and power in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen!
Father, frustrate all satanic strategies, operations, and activities to hinder Your intercessors’ spiritual progress, effectiveness, and testimony in their subject of intercession in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen!
Father, I ask that your love, wisdom, faith, holiness, commitment, and dedication rule the hearts of men, prayer movements, groups, ministries, and other prayer organizations and institutions in Jesus’ name. Amen!
Father, I ask that You raise many more intercessors, I ask that You strengthen those that have been called, I ask that You give them understanding of the ministry and knowledge of the price of intercession, that they know the role of intercession as a tool in reviving the dying Church, saving lost souls, setting captives free, bringing hope to the hopeless, delivering the oppressed, and shining the tremendous light, justice and righteousness of Christ in the lives of people, homes, families, churches, governments, communities, cities, economic sectors, politics, and nations.
Father give Your intercessors understanding and power of discernment to know the satanic strategies, operations, strongholds, and satanic entities, rulers, powers, and principalities that rule supreme in their operational territories for effective and maximum fruitfulness.
Father, I ask that the fruits of many intercessors abide in the name of Jesus Christ. I pray that they all receive the hundredfold rewards You promised in Your word, here on Earth and in heaven in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen!
Father, I pray for mercy, deliverance, and restoration from ongoing satanic attacks against Your Church, Christian leaders, real gospel messages, homes, businesses, families, ministers, musicians, prayer leaders, youths, preachers, and all believers in Christ Jesus that have been hit by the attacks of the enemy, his deceptions and lies, and have fallen from grace to grass, leaving their souls in captivity of hell in Jesus mighty name. Amen and Amen and Amen.
Operation of Satanists
According to reports from a Christian Intercessor in his book, “Some years ago, Satanists in South Africa fasted for forty days. During those forty days; they made only one request to their father who art in hell. That request was, to destroy the marriage of Christian leaders.
So mightily was the power released by the fast and the corresponding answer to their prayer that billions of demons were released to attack the marriages of Christian leaders in all corners of planet Earth. The mate of some leaders died suddenly, with devastating effects on the ministry.
Other ministers divorced their wives and married others, continuing shamelessly to preach the gospel. Others committed fornication and adultery. In some cases, preachers who committed adultery then led their partners in sin to commit abortions. In other cases, preachers were found to be involved in homosexual sin. Besides these obvious disasters, no harmony in many marriages. Many managed to stay together under one roof because of the ministry.
The effect of the homes of the Christian leaders has also extended to their children. Very many do not turn to Christ, others are thieves, prostitutes, etc. One church leader sadly advised visitors to his home to ensure that they don’t keep their money in the house or leave their doors open because his son was a notorious thief.
A young Christian leader once wrote to me, saying that he was at his wit’s end. The love he had for his wife had died completely, they had been married for two years. Many leaders in Christian circles confessed that they were bound by sexual lust. One confessed that he felt that he had a demon of lust”.
Jesus’ prayer for His followers and the Church in the world
John 17:9-26:
“I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them.
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them
*NB*: Please join me in prayers for deliverance and protection from attacks against my life, spouse, children, health, finances, and loved ones, pray for provisions for the ministry’s needs. Thank you for praying for us daily.
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