Liberation at Last! « No Other Rock

Liberation at Last!

October 9, 2007 at 3:00 pm | In Blessings, Prayer |
Tags: Blessings, intercession, prayers

And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. ~ Job 42:10

Note: This devotion is from September 3

Observe the real factor in Job’s praying which ended his captivity. ‘The Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends.’ That is immensely meaningful: It was not when Job prayed for himself that his liberation came, though that might have seemed the normal think; but when he prayed for others! In this let us see at once the reflexive power of prayer. One of the high values of prayer is that when I earnestly pray for others, my intercession not only brings blessing to them, it boomerangs back in blessing upon myself. I do not mean merely a therapeutic soothing reaction on nerves, organism, and mind, though that is usually included. Prayer for others has a liberating reflex spiritually upon ourselves. If we spent more time in intercession we should discover that our prayers for others were opening the gates of freedom from many a bondage in our own lives.

Today, I pray for you and you only.

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Hi, that’s great insight from the book of Job. I talked yesterday that we have to be like Job, who presented sacrifices to the Lord for his children, though he actually didn’t sin himself and was blameless. His intercession for others deserves our attention, that’s true.

Comment by Aleksej — October 12, 2007 #