Intercessory Prayer

Amanah · #1 02-09-2012, 01:42 PM

Have you experienced the type of intercessary prayer as expressed in Romans 8:26, and if so, how would you described it?

Romans 8:26
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27 And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because[g] the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 28

bbyrd009 · #2 02-09-2012, 01:51 PM

This passage for me was always a description of a person praying from a position of "weakness," in some kind of trouble, and how their "groanings" are really coming from Spirit, which aids them at that time. I would liken the feeling afterward as being related to...the physical relief from crying, maybe, but on a more spiritual level.

The Matt · #3 02-09-2012, 03:11 PM

I've prayed for people til I started crying. I dunno if that's anything like it.

Jay · #4 02-09-2012, 04:57 PM

I know the passage, I have sometimes thought that I might be close, but I have never been sure. However, I have known some who prayed in that way. When they would start getting to the point that words were no longer coming forth, but they were bent wailing, you could be sure that the Spirit was going to move in a mighty way. Those are memories that are with me to this day.

The Matt · #5 02-09-2012, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Jay

I know the passage, I have sometimes thought that I might be close, but I have never been sure. However, I have known some who prayed in that way. When they would start getting to the point that words were no longer coming forth, but they were bent wailing, you could be sure that the Spirit was going to move in a mighty way. Those are memories that are with me to this day.

You just don't see that much anymore.

Jay · #6 02-09-2012, 05:17 PM

This is true. I believe that in order to see the moving of the Spirit that our ancestors saw, we must learn to pray like our ancestors prayed.

Titus2woman · #7 02-09-2012, 06:13 PM

Not sure I want to share this here. I sent you a PM Amanah

trialedbyfire · #8 02-09-2012, 06:14 PM

I understand often times this kind of prayer is called "wailing" or "travailing".

I have "wailed"/"travailed" once, while I was fasting for a long period of time. I know some people who "travail" regularly. Not me. Not a gift I aspire to have. That ONE time I though I felt like I was accomplishing something and didn't want to stop until I felt that it was accomplished. I've been on the virge lately, being that I've been on my knees every night in intercession for an extended family member of mine.

I know some people have said they've gotten so deep that they've felt what was like labor pangs, sweating blood, and some other strange manifestations. Never felt or seen anything like that, but I've heard of it.

trialedbyfire · #9 02-09-2012, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by The Matt

You just don't see that much anymore.

It is a shame. There used to be a lot of people who'd stay on their face and wail and travail.

It's hard to find people who will stay on their face and pray for an extended period of time period much less travail.

Jay · #10 02-09-2012, 07:06 PM

The ladies who did it while I was growing up were in the 70s-80s. There were a few in their 50s who would reach that level of prayer, but it does seem to be a dying art (for lack of a better term). I know that I have gotten close to this myself on a rare occasion, but for some reason us guys do not do as well here as women. However, I have had stomach pain from where I was clenched so tight in desperate prayer. I never heard the sweating blood, but I have heard of intense pain that occasionally followed a desperate time of prayer. May God bring it back among His people.