Praying For Others

For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints (the people of God), I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. [For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him, By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones), And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength, Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places], Ephesians 1:15-20

The Holy Spirit causes us to desire to see all that our Father is. We are empowered to fully expect to see things that pass all human understanding. We are flooded with Divine Hope to see the dead raised, the lame walk, the blind see, and the most despicable person to be set free. Because of Christ we can’t help but to eagerly desire to see Spiritual gifts for all mankind. 

Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost (completely, perfectly, finally, and for all time and eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He is always living to make petition to God and intercede with Him and intervene for them. Hebrews 7:25

We are now one with Jesus and Jesus ever lives to intercede for us so that we might be saved to the uttermost. So we too live to intercede for people, we do this because we are part of Jesus’ body and the body has the same purpose as its Head. This is why we never cease to pray for others, it is what we have been grafted into Jesus to do. It is one of the greatest reasons that we are alive, it is why Jesus is alive, to serve those who need served. We forgive sins and they are forgiven. We lay hands on the sick and they recover. We ask and receive. We do all of this because we are one with Jesus and this is what He does.

This is a great example in Ephesians 1 of how we should pray for others. We should pray for people to have wisdom and revelation. Jesus causes us to desire and pray for the gift of prophesy for others. He uses us to pray that we have a deep and complete understanding of all things. The Holy Spirit empowers us to go for the gusto in our prayers for others. Our Father causes us to desire that the body has it all, nothing lacking, full and complete glory and perfection in Christ on this earth and on this day. Pray that people see that they are called and that they are called to greatness and pray that they receive the revelation of the peace that goes with it.