{"id":160,"date":"2021-01-14T17:25:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T17:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/street\/2021\/01\/14\/a-friend-for-intercession-ministry\/"},"modified":"2021-01-14T17:25:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T17:25:58","slug":"a-friend-for-intercession-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/street\/2021\/01\/14\/a-friend-for-intercession-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Friend for Intercession Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_65291\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W4y4Vt5lBDY?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=1&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A Friend for Intercession Ministry<\/p>\n<p>I.  Luke 11: 5-13  A story about us who have a ministry and a FRIEND to turn to<br \/>\n     A.  We have a FRIEND that we could go to at midnight and seek a need (vs 5)<br \/>\n          1.  John 15: 14-15 &#8211; Jesus is this FRIEND<br \/>\n          2.  James 2: 23  &#8211; Abraham believed and was called a friend of God<br \/>\n          3.  Exodus 33: 11 &#8211;  Moses &#038; God, face to face, as friend<br \/>\n          4.  1 John 3: 13-18  &#8211; laid down His life for us<br \/>\n     B.  Then there is the friend that comes to us unexpectedly (vs 6)<br \/>\n          1.  Arrival of this friend is Not expected or would have had bread to feed<br \/>\n          2.  This friend is on a journey; thus we are neither the origin nor destination of this journey<br \/>\n          3.  We are not on this friend&#8217;s journey<br \/>\n          4.  Our paths cross for an interval of time, a divine appointment if you like.<br \/>\n          5.  This friend did not ask for bread; we ascertained we need to provide bread which we do NOT have<br \/>\n      C.  So, not being able to provide (vs 6), we must know we can go to FRIEND, even at midnight (vs 5)<br \/>\n           1.  We ask for 3 loaves (vs 5)<br \/>\n           2.  Response is not what we expected, or even desired (vs 6)<br \/>\n           3.  Our persistence causes FRIEND to respond (vs 8)<br \/>\n           4.  FRIEND rises and gives as much as need (more than 3 loaves asked) (vs 8)<br \/>\nII.  Verse 9-10 Ask-Seek-Knock = ASK<br \/>\n     A.  Often thought of as 3 examples of the point (and this is not wrong), this is actually sequential steps for intercession for a friend before our FRIEND<br \/>\n     B.  When done in the right order, we have the word ASK&#8230;our of order we get sak or ska or kas or ksa&#8230;which is meaningless.  This illustrates the importance of the order of the sequence<br \/>\n     C.  We Ask &#8211; and then must receive<br \/>\n     D.  What we receive we use to Seek &#8211; and we find<br \/>\n     E.  Use what we find to Knock &#8211; and things open to us<br \/>\n     F.  This gives us the persistence to have our FRIEND rise and open the door and provide<\/p>\n<p>III.  We earthly, self-serving, distracted, controlling fathers give correspondingly to requests of our children<br \/>\n     A.  We don&#8217;t respond with useless (stone) or dangerous (serpent\/scorpion) gifts to requested needs that our children ask for<br \/>\n     B.  Our heavenly Father, to whom we can get to through Jesus, responds to our requests with the Holy Spirit <\/p>\n<p>IV.  As revealed in Luke 11: 1, this is all part of Jesus&#8217; response to the disciples&#8217; request to be taught how to pray.<\/p>\n<p>V.  Do we understand that we have a FRIEND that we can go before unexpectedly to seek on behalf of a traveling friend and that we can Ask and Seek and Knock until we have our FRIEND respond to minister to a friend.<br \/>\nIf we don&#8217;t understand this, we need to Ask, Seek, Knock for more of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>VI.  These journeying friends that come across our lives for a season, we seek our FRIEND on their behalf.  These friends are not here to add to our list, our congregation, our following, our roadies or groupies.  They need intercession ministry.<\/p>\n<p>VII.  We worship with shouts of Joy!  Not unlike the Hebrews when trumpets sounded for Jubilee; or when walls of Jericho were to come down; or when the Ark of the Covenant was brought into Jerusalem; or when the foundation was laid for the rebuilding the temple in days of Ezra.<br \/>\n     A.  Ruah (#7321) Hebrew to vocally and physically make war cry of confidence, shouts of joy, triumphant or religious impulse.  Noun form for these shouts is Teruah.<br \/>\n     B.  Instructed in Psalms to shout with joy or to have shouts of joy<br \/>\n          1.  Psalm 81: 1 shout joyfully to the God of Jacob<br \/>\n          2.  Psalm 95: 1-2 sing for Joy and shout Joyfully to Lord God<br \/>\n          3.  Psalm 98: 4, 6 Shout Joyfully to God, to our King  with trumpets<br \/>\n          4.  Psalm 100: 1 shout joyfully<br \/>\n     C.  When we recall what God has done and meant to us, should we not shout joyfully, be overcome by shouts of joy&#8230;for we have a FRIEND closer than a brother, a FRIEND that will answer our cries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Friend for Intercession Ministry I. Luke 11: 5-13 A story about us who have a ministry and a FRIEND to turn to A. 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