Thoughts on Effective Prophetic Intercession for nations
As I attended the ceremony and prayer meeting at ORU in Tulsa in 2013, as we prayed for the United States that day, I feel the Lord gave me some thoughts on how to effectively turn this, (or any other nation), in prayer.
1. Identify the problems. They are always rooted in sin. Ask God for the specific sins that needed to be forgiven.
2. Stand in the gap in vicarious intercession for these sins, asking God to forgive these, and pleading and applying the blood of Jesus on behalf of the the sin committed.
Ezekial 22: 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Number 16: 46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
Notice Daniel prayed for mercy for the whole nation of Israel.
Daniel 9: 1 ¶ In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
4 ¶ And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7 O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
3. Take authority over the demons, and wicked businesses, administrations, and costructs that have been raised up through these sins, and command them to move. By faith, destroy them.
Jer 1: 9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Luke 10:19 19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Rom 8: 19 For [even the whole] creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God’s sons to be made known [waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship].
20 For the creation (nature) was subjected to [i]frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it—[yet] with the hope
21 That nature (creation) itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and corruption [and gain an entrance] into the glorious freedom of God’s children.
22 We know that the whole creation [of irrational creatures] has been moaning together in the pains of labor until now.
23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves too, who have and enjoy the firstfruits of the [Holy] Spirit [a foretaste of the blissful things to come] groan inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies [from sensuality and the grave, which will reveal] our adoption (our manifestation as God’s sons).
4. After we have destroyed, by faith demonic strongholds, and the works of wicked men, we can then ask Father God, for what should be there. Plant righteous works of redemptive love, in their place.
Ps 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Jer 1:9 Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Matt 18: 18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
The Lord was showing me today, during national day of prayer, how many of these types of prayers were being prayed, but that we ask him to plant (do something) in an area, where darkness has not yet been repented of, and demons routed, our prayers are not effectual in producing the desired results. He wants us to understand, so that we can honestly turn our nation around, and back to righteousness.
Let’s Pray:
‘Father, show us how to pray. Open our eyes to the sin of our nation, as we come before you, standing in the gap for our country. Have mercy Father, as we plead the blood of Jesus over our sins, blot them out we pray. Forgive us!
Now, by faith, we apply that very blood to the evil sacrifices sin generated, and take our place, in your authority, made to sit together with Christ in heavenly places. We command every demon spirit, businss, administration, organization and construct, to MOVE, and leave our land, NOW, in Jesus name.
Father, by faith, we establish, and call forth, and loose your kingdom here in America, in righteousness, peace and joy, in the Holy Spirit, Amen