Comments on: The Challenge of Intercession http://crossroadjunction.com/2009/08/27/intercession/ Uploading a lifetime of service to the King of Kings... Tue, 29 May 2012 12:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anonymous http://crossroadjunction.com/2009/08/27/intercession/#comment-2020 Mon, 07 May 2012 16:24:36 +0000 http://fulcrumprime.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/intercession-with-understanding/#comment-2020 the problem is leaders

]]> By: True Ministry « Fulcrum Express: A Journey of Faith Embracing All of Life http://crossroadjunction.com/2009/08/27/intercession/#comment-610 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:15:30 +0000 http://fulcrumprime.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/intercession-with-understanding/#comment-610 [...] a strong intercessory warrior, shared how God’s been showing her that much of what passes for intercession and prayer these days is really just projecting our own fears and anxieties onto God (which is OK, but we [...]

]]> By: Cheri http://crossroadjunction.com/2009/08/27/intercession/#comment-206 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:04:52 +0000 http://fulcrumprime.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/intercession-with-understanding/#comment-206 Well said. You are right, our churches are largely ineffective. We attend our “feel good” Sunday services then return to life as usual for the rest of the week. Even if we are being taught God’s precepts we must also be taught how to apply them to our daily lives. This is often a very difficult mental transition for some. Our churches must also teach that we as individuals share in the responsibility to study and learn on our own. So often we expect that we will receive our weekly “spiritual” sustenance at church and do little to take responsibilty for our own spiritual growth. We can be like “spiritual babies” who expect to be bottle fed each Sunday. Our congregations must be taught that this is indeed our responsiblity just as it is that of the church and our churches need to provide opportunities for members to do just that. There will never be a substitute for personal study and meditation of scripture. God reveals much to us and transforms our minds through his word. How sad that so many fail to realize the tremendous benefit of spending time in God’s word!

]]> By: Barbara http://crossroadjunction.com/2009/08/27/intercession/#comment-207 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:22:49 +0000 http://fulcrumprime.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/intercession-with-understanding/#comment-207 I have wondered why for seven months I have not been able to find a job – and the reason being that I am being “punished” for something. I have to consider that I have unconfessed sin. Anger and grudge holding comes to mind, but oh boy do I have a difficult time with forgiveness to those who have been unjust or just flat out cruel to me and/or my son. It’s just piled up and piled up. I have asked for forgiveness for this and for God to help me change it, but like your article reads, am I applying the hard work it takes to really implement those changes? Looks like I have some major soul searching to do

]]> By: Michael Milchling http://crossroadjunction.com/2009/08/27/intercession/#comment-208 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:11:35 +0000 http://fulcrumprime.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/intercession-with-understanding/#comment-208 The creature comforts and so called “liberties in Christ” that we so tightly cling to are already slipping away. The social club that the so-called church in large part has become is pathetically unfit to do ministry as outlined in the New Testament. Even large Ministries dedicated to proclaiming the Word of God and supposedly desirous of helping to fulfill the Great Commission are full of servants that are limited in their knowlege of God’s precepts and more specifically the personal application of them. What is to become of us who call ourselves Christians?

Since we were not willing to diligently study His precepts and prayerfully apply them to our lives in loving obedience to the Greatest Lover of our souls, I fear there may be an horriffic day of reckoning just around the corner that will make 9/11 seem like a Sunday School picnic. Woe to us who were not willing to leave our TVs, video games, computers, movies, sporting events and whatever other forms of entertainment man can devise, while the world and even our own lives slip off to hell in a hand basket. Woe to me to expect, and sometimes even demand, so much of my Holy Heavenly Father while giving Him so infinitely little in return.

I truly must repent! If I don’t, it will be way too late to even mutter the pious expression, “God help me”!, let alone actually expect Him to answer a Laodicean church member that has made Him sick to His stomach.

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