Intercede Today | Pastor Paul McGee

That God honors that Amen going to be turning to Exodus chapter

#8 Exodus chapter #8 and I concur and encourage system.

He already said please come and participate for a revival media

fast again. I mean, we, we set aside like 5

days, like consecrated effort. You know, there's some that's

already done 21 days. You know, I'm, I'm not putting

the comparison game out there. I'm saying surely we can just

succumb for a concentrated effort of five days.

Amen. Talk to the Lord collectively as

a body. Exodus chapter #8 And man, I got

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stuff. Exodus chapter #8 verse #8 the

Bible says. Then Pharaoh called for Moses

and Aaron and said, entreat the Lord that he may take away the

frogs. So yes, we're right here in the

middle of the plagues from me and from my people, and I will

let the people go, that they may do sacrifice and to the Lord.

And Moses said unto Pharaoh, glory over me, when shall I

entreat for thee, for thy servants, and for thy people, to

destroy the frogs from thee, thy houses, that they may remain in

the river only. And he said, tomorrow, that's

not my subject today, but that's always just crazy, like we got a

frog problem. I want you to handle it

tomorrow, though. And he said, Be it according to

thy word, that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the

Lord our God. And the frog shall depart from

thee, and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy

people. They shall remain in the river

only. Verse 12 And Moses and Aaron

went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried unto the Lord because of

the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.

And the Lord did according to the word of Moses.

And the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and

out of the fields. Real focus today is that Moses

asked, when do you want this to happen?

He says tomorrow. The Bible says, though, when

Moses and Aaron left him in that same day, that's when Moses

started crying out to the Lord about it, not the next day, but

in the same day. And so with the mindset of

prayer revival coming this week, I want to speak to you simply

this, intercede today. Intercede today.

All right, let's go to the Lord and prayer.

God, we're so grateful today for another opportunity.

God, we are blessed, the Lord to have been here.

We're thankful, Lord, for the health, the mobility, God, even

to get here today. Lord bless you people, God

inspire us, instruct us. Let your word be everything that

it can Lord be to us in our lives that will not fail to

thank you for the lovely name of Jesus Christ that I pray Amen

and Amen. You may be seated this morning

in Jesus name. So this is a very significant

moment in Exodus chapter #8 for a few reasons.

Again, the kind of set the background of where we are.

The children of Israel has faced 400 years of bondage in Egypt.

Moses and Aaron were sent as deliverers of God's people and

the king of Egypt. Pharaoh has refused to allow

God's people to be let go and instead he he even worsens the

situation that they are under because Moses is Aaron has come

and made their plea to the children of Israel.

And so Pharaoh's seen that as though he was taking them away

from their duties and their jobs and obligations from their work

of building his cities. And as a result of that, then he

puts a hard thumb up on them with the beatings of the

leadership, so on and so forth and the hard taskmasters.

And he wanted them to produce the same number of bricks

required for them to have straw in order for there to be as a

binding agent to make bricks. And so he he wanted them to

still make bricks without him providing the straw.

And so the same number. But the Pharaoh that we're

Speaking of in Exodus chapter #8 is not the same Pharaoh that

Jace Joseph dealt with whenever he served as second command over

Egypt. The Pharaohs were expected to

live or and work in their office of being the king of Egypt for

their entire lives. And so it was no doubt not the

same Pharaoh. As a matter of fact, Exodus

tells us in Exodus one and eight that there arose up a new king

over Egypt which knew not, which knew not Joseph.

And so no doubt the Pharaoh that was in Joseph's lifetime had a

loose familiarity with the God of Israel.

It was Joseph's character and his wisdom and how he handled

himself that drove a deeper appreciation, no doubt of

Pharaoh for Joseph's God. It was Joseph that came before

Pharaoh when he called all of his magicians and soothsayers to

try to interpret the the two dreams that he had and none

could that Joseph came and Joseph let let Pharaoh know

emphatically that I can't necessarily tell you the

interpretation. The interpretation belongs into

the Lord and that God would be the one that would give this

interpretation. And as a result, all of that he

he even told him what he must do during the years of of famine in

order or plenty in order to have food during the years of famine.

And he told him the plan that he should do If you can find a

person to initialize this and favor was like he talked to

those leaders around him. He says, I don't know of a

another person in whom the Spirit of God is like you,

Joseph, that could that could, you know, do this and handle

this for us. And so all everything that

Joseph did, people came wanting grain and they would give money.

And when they ran out of money, then they would give of their

land in exchange. And when they ran out of land,

they were willing to give of themselves and their wife and

their children for exchange. And so the Egyptian empire

really came into be out of all this.

Here is now a man that has all the money of his land and then

the land and the people and so and so forth.

So Pharaoh became a greater king.

Egypt became a greater empire. But the Pharaoh of Exodus

chapter #8 is different, a different pharaoh because

whenever Moses and Aaron first approached him about releasing

the, the, the Hebrews, the children of Israel, this pharaoh

of of Exodus 8 said in Exodus five and two, he said, you're

saying that the Lord God of Israel wants me to let his

people go? His response was who is the Lord

who is the Lord I I know not the Lord.

He he doesn't know the Lord and therefore he's not going to

acknowledge the Lord. He's not going to acknowledge

something he doesn't know. And so he he looks at this, we

understand Hebrews even tells us that those that come to God must

believe that he is. And so in order for there to be

acknowledgement that there's some type of knowledge or at

least belief in that he exists and he's there.

And so this very initial inquiry a man that he had concerning who

is the Lord. I don't know the Lord and what's

going to happen through the plagues until the children of

Israel is released from the Egyptian bondage.

All of that is going to better equate the modern day Pharaoh

with the Lord. God even told Moses, he said

Moses, he said, when all of this is all over, when the dust has

settled and, and the final frog has made its place back in the

river and, and they're grieving the death of their first born

and all of that has happened. He said the Egyptians, which

includes Pharaoh, the Egyptians are going to know that I am the

Lord whenever, whenever Israel is walking out of here with a

high hand and its deliverance and they have spoiled the

Egyptians. So they're going to know then I

am the Lord. So up to this point where we're

at in scripture again, just for a little bit of setting what has

already happened. Aaron has thrown down his rod

and it's turned into a snake, right.

The magicians have come in and thrown down their rods and

they've become snakes as well. But Aaron's rod slash snake has

swallowed up all the others. He's there's already been the

turning of the Nile River or the water in the land there into

blood. A man by Aaron The Egyptian

magicians have come and done the same and now an Exodus 8 is the

second plague. It is the plague of frogs.

Hey, man, you can't say that without smiling.

The plague of frogs. Frogs have come upon the land.

They are everywhere. You read the Scripture.

They are in their houses. They are in their bedrooms.

They are in their beds. They are in their kneading

troughs. The Bible says they are in their

ovens. I mean, imagine, Sister Sheila,

open in your oven and here's a frog.

There's a frog everywhere Is a frog.

Frog. Oh, McDonald's, you know,

there's frogs everywhere that's in these places.

And so this this impact, though, encompasses Pharaoh, right?

This isn't just every other Egyptian except Pharaoh.

No, this is Pharaoh. His servants, all of Egypt is

being impacted by these frogs. And guess what?

The Egyptian magician show up and say, OK, we, I don't know

why you would want to do this, but we're going to put frogs on

the land too. We can do this.

But the thing of the plague of the frogs, it's not like, you

know, the frogs are going to harm everybody and we're all go

away for wars. I don't know.

But nonetheless, it's just a nuisance, right?

That amount one of frogs around is just a nuisance and and like

every other plague in the plagues of of that were given of

the 10, it kind of pinpointed a God that the the Egyptians

revered, right? The the the frogs were seen as a

God or they had a goddess in Egypt that was half woman in a

frog head. So what that meant, Brother

Reese, was is that the Egyptian couldn't go around and start

killing frogs because to do so would be a disrespect to one of

their gods. You look at all the other

plagues at pinpoints of really a, a, a God that the Egyptians

serve, which is why it was such ironic for them and, and, and

difficult for them. And so the magicians could bring

more frogs up on the land, but they were powerless to remove

the frogs from the land. They couldn't kill them.

They're gods. They couldn't get no relief for

their people. It's just something that was

taking place but no doubt serving all these a pantheon, if

you will, all these various numerous multitude gods in

Egypt. They did have a sense of

religion to them. All right, a sense of religion.

Just welcome me here today. I'm really in teaching mode

learning thing that if you see this ever on my ear, that's you

the why. All right, Matthew Alper in a

book called The God Part of the Brain said this and I quote, he

said, I remember the position held by the sciences that if a

behavior was universal to any given species or in the case of

humans to all cultures, it is most likely represents an

inherited characteristic of that species.

That is a genetically inherited trait.

And as surely as all human cultures have spoken a language

or engaged in sexual reproduction, all cultures have

practiced religion in conjunction with a belief in

some form of a spiritual reality.

In other words, what he's saying is this.

He says since all cultures have spoken language and involved in

sexual reproduction, that those two things must be a part of the

genetic mechanism of humanity, all humanity.

But he says likewise all cultures seem to practice also

religion. It's having some type of

spiritual reality. So he's saying that maybe there

is this God part that's inside of humanity because since it's

across all cultures, maybe it's something that's genetically

embedded, this want for something beyond ourselves,

something for a higher power, something beyond the the just

external of our own lives, a religious component, if you

will, to mankind, regardless of how it appears from culture to

culture, place to place. He's arguing that there may be a

genetically thing that's a part of our design.

And whenever I read that before, several years ago, I thought

about Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes, because in

Ecclesiastes 3 and 11, he says he and he's Speaking of God have

set the world, which is also translated as eternity in their

heart. The word heart in the Old

Testament many times is is translated heart or mind or so

that God, God had set eternity in their heart, if you'll allow

me and you got the amplified up there.

Read it from here. He has made everything beautiful

in his time. He also has planted eternity in

men's hearts and minds. A divinely implanted sense of a

purpose, working through the ages, which nothing under the

sun but God alone can satisfy yet so that men cannot find out

what God has done from the beginning to the end.

God, even Solomon, says God has placed inside of humanity

something that's beyond the here and now, a desire, a drawing for

the eternal. If I could say like this, God

has made it a part of our genetic makeup to, to want a

higher being, to want to serve a greater purpose.

That is in part why the Egyptians are grappling with all

their various gods. They're on the journey trying to

find, Hey, man, what God has created in mankind, that longing

that if you will, that God void that they really need filled

people fill it with all type of stuff, right?

They, they, they, they try to, to, to satisfy with all type of

stuff, but only the creator that created them is really able to

satisfy that right? And so they're on the journey.

It's what fuels us this morning for our search for the God of

the Bible that we're pulling toward that we we want to be

more like him. And The thing is, if he set

eternity in our lives, then only the eternal can satisfy that

loaning. Only the eternal can satisfy

that longing. That's the reason why for

various other groups in the world today, Confucius fails in

that regard, Haira Krishna fails in that regard, Muhammad fails,

Joseph Smith fails. Why?

None of these are eternal leaders or eternal beings.

Amen. Only your God.

Amen is the eternal one. Timothy said now unto the king,

eternal, immortal, invisible, the only, only wise God be honor

and glory forever and ever. And so only a eternal king can

satisfy the eternity longing, Amen.

That's inside of the heart of mankind.

Nothing else compares, Amen. But since cultures have this,

this, this, this desire, right, this longing, however it is,

they fulfill it or try to feel it, it's there.

It is also known fact. This is not my fact, this is

studies fact that every every religion in the world encourages

daily prayer. Doesn't matter what your flavor

is, Every religion in the world encourages daily prayer.

With that enters Pharaoh in our story.

He's an Egyptian king, but if I if I can, he's not unlike the

rest of humanity that has a pool towards some religious reality,

spiritual fact of eternity, right and being in their

religion again, there is a prayer orientation to them all

right. He understands all of this.

But here they are powerless to change their dilemma of these

frogs in the oven, in the bed, roll over to kiss your wife at

night and frog. It's powerless to do this.

Magicians can put more on it, but they can't eliminate this

so-called God or goddess that they serve because to mistreat

the frog again would be disrespect their God.

So whenever Pharaoh enters into this picture, this whole

dynamic, Please note that Pharaoh doesn't ask his

magicians to try to remove the frogs.

He doesn't say to them, hey guys, will you remove the frogs?

He doesn't come really to Moses and Aaron themselves as

individuals and are asking them as mere other humans to remove

the frogs. He doesn't ask that.

Whenever he comes to them, he is asking them.

He said, entreat, entreat the Lord and treat the Lord for us,

and treat the Lord for me. That word entreat means to pray.

It means to intercede. Moses and Aaron intercede and

pray on my behalf. Amen.

That this thing would just go away.

You got to get this in your mind.

This man is the highest power in Egypt.

He is the man with the greatest clout in Egypt, the most

powerful king of that time and of one of the greatest empires

of that time. He's acquired all the money of

the land, all the land, all the people, the slaves, the souls,

if you will, during the years of famine.

He had everything that he wanted, dare I say even needed.

But at this moment, he realized I need a interceding Hebrew to

arrest heaven for me, a man, so that this situation that we're

presently living in just might change.

Someone came in. Not only that, here's something

important I think, for us to grasp.

Pharaoh understood the dynamics of what it was, was needed in

order to reverse this thing. He, he, he, it wasn't his money,

It wasn't all of his, his real estate.

That's not what he needed. He needed, if you will, some

prayer. He needed some prayer.

He understood what it took to access a God.

Even in their own religion, they knew if I'm going to have access

to God, commune with God, have have, if you will, any sway with

God, I'm going to have to talk to God.

I'm going to have to pray. He knew what was necessary in

order to have access even to the God of Israel, and that came

through the power of prayer, Amen.

It happened by prayer. Someone had to commune with that

God, tap into his power and his influence and see what would

happen. And so in essence, Pharaoh was

calling Moses and Aaron, he's asking for them to go to

intercessory prayer. Amen.

Because to intercede means to stand in the gap for somebody or

a situation, right? It may even accompany travail.

It may accompany some deep spiritual intensity, Amen.

When they might even not not not be able to pray for themselves,

it's stepping into that place. I've noticed this morning I am

talking intercede today. I've noticed that that

intercession many times comes spontaneously.

Spontaneously, there have been times, and I'm just telling you

this so you'd be sensitive to it.

There are times in your normal, just everyday prayer that a

person's name can come to your mind that you wasn't praying

about at that moment. But a person's name comes to

your mind and you're deeply impressed upon your heart and

your spirit for them in that moment.

That is a call and a draw for interceding or praying on behalf

of that individual, particularly in that moment, particularly in

that moment. And so that's driven me.

Sometimes that's happened and I've switched gears and I just

follow what I'm feeling that moment, praying over that

individual. And there are many times that I

reach out to them after all of that said and done and just let

them know, hey, you was on my mind today, been praying for

you. And they might turn back around

and say exactly why they needed prayer in that moment or today.

Or they just might as well say things not doing that, you know,

and there might not be anything going on.

And I just told him I've been praying for them.

Well, what's embarrassing about that?

I mean, seriously rather sure What what's, what's embarrassing

about just letting someone know I prayed for you today.

Amen. But it could be that it was a

divine intersection. There's other times that you

might pray over people's circumstances or situations,

right, that that that may be overwhelming them and, and you

start to feel in your prayer, there's a very deep empathy,

right? It's almost as though you're

almost starting to feel perhaps what they may be feeling about

what they are going through. And so you start to pray almost

as though it happened to you, right?

And you begin to pray. And so you're taking them and

their needs to God in fervent prayer.

And it's in these moments you got to allow yourself and, and

the only thing way I can describe it, allow yourself just

to get lost in prayer. I have noticed that during times

whenever God wants me to intercede, man, everything else

doesn't matter, right? What's going around me.

I don't even, I don't really take inventory of where I'm at,

what's going on, what the time of day is because I'm just in a

mode right now. Somebody needs something or a

situation needs something. And So what?

I'm going to intercede now. I'm going to intercede today.

I'm going to intercede in the moment.

Amen. Until I feel that that lift of

God off of my life in 2023, just case in point, in 2023, Brother

Mason was experiencing one of his very, very he was

experiencing a very bad mode of his manears and Vertigo in, in

the the spring or end of winter if you will type of session.

And all of this was going on and I was praying one morning at the

house and I was praying and it was his need, that whole need.

I prayed for him, you know, each day for that.

But this was different, you know, when it's different.

And then his knee just overtook me and I, I begin to cry out to

God and I begin to speak in tongues.

And I'm going to talk about that here in just a little bit.

I begin to speak in tongues and I begin to petition heaven and

man I, I, I'm not him, but man, I begin just to feel some things

that that that that just I hadn't felt before.

I could only feel as though maybe I was feeling what he was

feeling. And I begin to cry out to God

for his health and such and pray for him.

And I later then text Sister Mason.

She's can hear me back there and she probably may still have the

text, but I told her, I said, Roberta, I said, and it didn't

just happen. Then I got up all through my

day, different moments. It would just sweep in and feel

like I was being overtaken by the moment and begin praying

again. Sideswipe me.

And I told Roberta, I said there's been different times

today. I said Jerry man, it's just been

hitting me left and right been interceding for him.

I said every time that that wave would come.

I said I felt the spirit of the Lord saying this to me for I am

the Lord that healeth thee, for I am the Lord that healeth thee,

for I am the Lord that heareth thee.

And she responded back to me. She says Jerry said today that

he's 90% better than he was last night.

What is that, that someone standing in the gap, that

someone making up the hedge that's interceding today?

Amen. Watch, if you will, the

progression of Acts chapter #8 Acts 8, verse 8.

Acts 8:8

Pharaoh, He says, entreat the Lord.

Verse #9 And I'm just going to walk through just a little bit

there, brother, alone if you want to throw them up.

Verse #9 Moses says, When shall I entreat for thee?

Verse 10 Pharaoh says, tomorrow. Moses says, Be it according to

thy word. Verse 12 Moses cries into the

Lord after he and Aaron had went out from Pharaoh.

They cried in the same day that it was asked in verse 13 the

Bible says, And the Lord did according to the word of Moses.

Folks, this little passage of scriptures that drove me nuts

because I've read it 1000 times. I've read what other people's

thought about it and I know there's sermons people have

preached out there one more night with the frogs on so

forth. And so some argue that it indeed

happened the next day because Moses said according to your

word and then God did it according to Moses's word is

what the scripture says though. But what's so interesting to me

is that he asked for tomorrow, but Moses started praying the

day and almost the the line in the Scripture as though

deliverance came in the same day.

So I don't know where it is. I could probably have a good

argument with someone over it right now.

But the fact that the matter is Pharaoh's asking for tomorrow.

But Moses started the prayer today.

And so as I look at all that Brother Bishop, I, I, I look at

it and I concentrate on and it was, it was making me

aggravated, tell you the truth, as I was trying to figure out

the conundrum of did it happen today or did it happen then

tomorrow? As I looked at it and I studied

a little bit more, I realize this.

Regardless of when the frogs died, whether it was the next

day or whether it was the same day, Moses still entreated the

Lord, not the next day, but he did today.

And so the message then became more clear to me.

Despite the circumstances and despite the request, you always

intercede today. You know someone, I say,

Remember Me, blah, blah, blah. And it's some future.

You intercede today. You can do it that day too.

But folks, there are some things in this life that we don't have

time to wait. We don't have time to do our

thumbs around as though we're just, no, we need to pray, we

need to intercede. We need to touch heaven.

We need to stand in the gap today.

We got to intercede today. Pharaoh asked for this

intercession, but again it plays out.

Moses cried. Look how it plays out.

He says, I asked, He said I asked for tomorrow.

But Moses, the Bible said, cried out.

And to the Lord that word cry means that he cried out or he

summoned. That word cried means it refers

to a shouting, a pleading of relief or justice, a calling for

help. As a matter of fact, over half

of the usages of this word that's used in the Bible is half

of them are always directed to God.

It's the cry that a man would use in a moment of a despairing

crisis. Moses's prayer, his cry, his

call was a cry and a call for deliverance.

It was a lament cry, a loud cry. The the definition says it's a

loud cry that's driven with emotion that's coupled with

other physical responses. And it says that the loudness

isn't for the sake of wanting to be heard.

It's for the sake of just the emotion of the urgency of the

need. Now I found I found something

interesting and and and maybe others will as well.

And if you've never played a part intercessory heard this is

what this is about this morning. I am promoting, I am encouraging

Amen to give yourself over to the sensitivity of of that in

those times. I have found this is not

something I read this something I know I experience.

I have found that intercessory prayer is often accompanied by

praying in the Holy Ghost. New Testament scripture talks

about praying in the Holy Ghost. All right, if you've been born

again in the water of the Spirit and the Spirit of God dwells in

you, you can pray in the Holy Ghost.

Now this is not hocus pocus guys.

This is this is Bible when you pray and that you've heard me

say this, I'll say it again. When you pray in the Holy Ghost,

you might be praying things that you do not understand what

you're praying, but God understands.

Let's go to Scripture, 1st Corinthians 14, verse 14 and 15,

the apostle Paul said to the Church of Corinth, for if I pray

in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is

unfruitful. Verse 15, what is it?

Then I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with the

understanding. Also, I will sing with the

Spirit. We don't talk about this a lot,

do we? Now let me tell you, my grandma

Weisenberger, pray. She's sang in tongues, he says.

I'll sing with the Spirit and I will sing with the

understanding. Also, whenever you pray in an

unknown tongue. And 1st Corinthians 13 tells us

that we speak with tongues of men or of angels, right?

He says, though I speak with tongues of men or angels and

have not charity, I'm as a sounding brass and a tinkling

symbol, but speaking with tongues of men or angels.

Whenever someone receives a gift that the Holy Ghost, they may

speak with tongues of men. It may be another language that

is not their mother tongue that they speak in or they might

speak with the tongue of an Angel that is not known to any

society here upon the earth, but it is a known tongue, Amen, that

is being spoken. And so Speaking of tongues of

men or angels, he says, I'm praying in the spirit.

And so when we talk about this, the the modern day lingo out

there today is this listen to me.

People talk about their prayer language.

People talk about their prayer language.

Let me say this and I'm going to get this thing all wrapped up.

My prayer language is my birth language.

And I'm not talking about my natural birth.

Can you hear me? My prayer language is my birth

language, my born again language, my born again

language. All right.

I, I got a native tongue when I was naturally born, but whenever

I was born with the water and the spirit, I got a language

then as well. Amen.

And so I'm talking about my born again experience in Acts 2 and

four. And it, it's up there this

morning. And they were all filled with

the Holy Ghost and begin to speak with other tongues as the

Spirit gave them utterance. And so whenever I pray in

tongues or I'm using my prayer language so to speak, that same

spirit that we were filled with initially now is interceding

through you. It's interceding through you.

And as Corinthians tells us, we don't understand.

He says whenever I pray in the Spirit, he said, I don't

understand. Amen.

Well, yeah, you don't, but God does.

And to pray with your understanding then is to pray in

the language like I'm talking right now and I go, I pray to

God a lot. My native tongue that I was born

here with English, the English language, I talked to God.

But but Paul put the emphasis on it here.

He says don't, don't leave one or the other out.

You need to pray in the Spirit and you also need to pray, if

you will, as as a man in your native given tongue that you

were born and reared in. You need to do both.

Can I emphasize that? You did.

The scripture says praying in the Holy Ghost, building up your

most holy faith. You need to do both.

Why? Because whenever I pray to God

right here, I'm talking to God. Everything I have knowledge of

and know about and things I'm aware of.

But whenever I get into the Spirit, begin to pray in the

Holy Ghost, He's there. That Spirit begins to pray

through me about things my natural mind has No, I don't

have any idea. I'm praying about stuff.

I don't know what's going on in somebody's life, but the Spirit

who knows who is omnipotent and omnipresent, Amen, who knows all

those things is doing it through me for a circumstance I don't

know about, for a situation or even maybe the name of a person

that I've never met. That's how God uses his body.

We're the church. We're the body of Christ.

And so whenever this happens, man, this, this is absolutely

important. Look, if you will at Romans

chapter #8 and verse #26 and I'm trying to move along here.

Likewise. Likewise, the Spirit also help

with our infirmities. For we know not what we should

pray for as we ought. You ever been there, didn't

really know how to pray about something or a situation, or we

know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit

itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot

be uttered. And he that searches the hearts

knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh

intercession for the Saints according to the will of God.

The Spirit helpeth our infirmities, The Spirit, the

Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, Christ in you, the hope of glory

helps or supports you in carrying your burdens, your

weaknesses, other people's burdens, other people's

weaknesses. And as an individual, again, I

don't always know what to pray about man.

There's, there's things that happen in life.

Sometimes it leaves me scratching my head as a man.

But Brother Fred, if in my prayer I can get out of that

form and get into to the Spirit, the Spirit knows how to pray

about it when I don't. Amen.

I don't know the best way maybe to pray about your needs and

what you're going through. It's just so overwhelming to my

mind as an individual. But if I can get in the Spirit,

he has a way of handling all those things.

And the Spirit, the Holy Ghost, which I received, the Bible says

it makes intercession. It, it may be making

intercession on my behalf. It may be making intercession on

the behalf of somebody else. It may be making intercession on

the behalf of someone else's circumstance.

And, and the Bible, look what the Scripture even says, maketh

intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Oh, brother McGee, listen to me. There are some things that are

just so just out there. Sometimes even as a real human,

I don't have words sufficient. I don't have words sufficient to

describe or at that moment to even help.

He says sometimes the spirit, it, it is sometimes unspeakable.

It's not as though there's an utterance, but there's just a

connection in the realm of the Spirit.

I'm just check me off as crazy, but there's sometimes in prayer

I can't do anything. But just like you understand

what I'm saying. I don't know.

There's no utterance, but there is a connection.

There's just some type of feeling that is there.

Amen. And look what the Bible told us

there in Romans. It tells us that he that Spirit

searches the hearts and know of what is the mind of the Spirit?

Jeremiah 1710 tells us the saying.

It tells us that God searches the hearts.

God knows the mind of the Spirit.

God knows the mind of the Spirit.

And even if it is a unspeakable connection, God knows the mind

of the Spirit. He knows the mind of the Spirit.

God knows what the Spirit's getting at.

God knows what the Spirit is directing God, and it that

Spirit then makes intercession. Watch this according to the will

of God, according to the will of God.

That's important because when we just approach prayer, we are a

monster scripture. We should approach prayer and

pray according to God's will. And the Bible says if we do

that, we will have what we request.

But the caveat is this, right? Going to God, praying his will.

We're praying what McGee wants. Because see, I see a situation

in this situation, I believe this is what should happen.

And McGee says, I'm going to pray according to this outcome.

And as much as that might be what God may want to do is

contradictory to what we think should be done.

We got to pray according to God's will, Huh?

We got to pray according to God's will.

And so we come frustrated sometimes what we frustrate and

we're praying and all these things.

But even Jesus, whenever he taught his disciples what we

call the Lord's Prayer, which is really the disciples prayer, but

what we call the Lord's Prayer, He taught them what he teach

them. He said when you pray thy

Kingdom come this way, you pray guys, Thy will be done in earth

as it is in heaven. Run with me if you will.

First John chapter #5 verse 14 and 15.

And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask

anything according to His will, He heareth us.

And if we know that He heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know

that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.

Listen, Pastor Mcgee's not up here telling you to turn your

prayer into a blab it and grab it.

Say it and have it type of prayer session.

But prayers the Bible said prayers according to his will

are heard and will be answered. So if I want to remove the

possibility of Paul McGee not praying according to his will,

you know a good good guarantee to not to get that wrong.

Pray in the Spirit because Romans says that it prays

according to God's will. If I want to remove the human

factor of the air possibility there, then just slip over into

praying in the Spirit because the Spirit will always pray

according to God's will. And I'm feeling the Holy Ghost

here right now. First John 2 and verse one the

Bible says, my little children, these things write I unto you

that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have

everybody say an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the

the righteous. The word advocate is

pericolitos. If you want to brush up on your

Greek, all right, but it means an intercessor.

We have an intercessor. It means consoler.

It means comforter. That's those things that we have

known even from John 14 and I have Scripture up there,

brethren, whenever Jesus said I'm going to go away, but I'm

not going to leave you comfortless, I'm going to send a

comforter, which is the Holy Ghost.

What are you saying? Comforter, consoler, intercessor

you speak with all those things in which the Holy Ghost would be

to us. And that Holy Ghost, mind you,

you look in the Scriptures like in Romans 8.

It is both called the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ.

Amen said it will. It will intercede.

It will intercede for you if you send it, whatever it is that has

happened. You have an advocate, You have

an intercessor, Amen, with the Father.

That that, that Paraclete or that comforter is one who is

called to one side as an aide, one who pleads the cause of

another, a defense counsel, if you will.

In the very broadest of sense, it's just a helper.

It's assistant. You have an intercessor.

So if all that being said, folks, this week, at least five

days here at the church, there might be times as we're

collectively here together that God would move into this place

and cause you to start interceding for situations or

maybe another St. or maybe a Sinner.

Here we go or maybe your enemy. What?

Let's look at the let's look at the relationship here, really

with Moses and Pharaoh, Moses and Pharaoh, Pharaoh pleads with

Moses intercede for me. I understand Old Testament.

New Testament, the picture of intercession looks a little

different because in the Old Testament the Spirit has not yet

been given, because Christ has not yet been glorified.

And so the best that the Old Testament could have is the

Spirit of the Lord moving on them or upon them.

New Testament, it gets more intimate.

The Spirit of God can move inside of a person, all right.

And so I understand there may be a little difference, but

nonetheless, here's Moses to the best of his ability, He is

interceding, Amen, for Pharaoh, for Pharaoh's servants, for the

Egyptian nation, Amen to the utmost possibility that his

disposition, his dispensation, and his heir, Amen, would, would

provide. And so he's crying out loudly.

He's crying for deliverance. It's an emotional plea with

physical responses, all this stuff.

And by all standards, Pharaoh was a Sinner.

By all standards, Pharaoh was the enemy of God and of Moses.

Pharaoh was lost, but Moses interceded, interceded for him.

I'm running. I'm so sorry, folks.

Matthew 544. Jesus says, but I say, and do

you love your enemies, bless them that curse you do good to

them that hate you, pray for them, which despitefully use you

and persecute you. What pray for them?

What pray because the context started here talking about the

enemies. Those are just kind of given

other if you will, explanations and and and causations of why

that person might be your enemy, right.

They they they despitefully using you persecuting you just

pray. Pray then for them.

The word for in Matthew 5 where it says pray for them.

The word for is a word that doesn't just mean over, it means

over. So pray over them, right?

You've had that happen for your life.

But it also means pray and behalf of them for the sake of

them on the part. What's it talking about?

Intercede for them. I don't just pray over my

enemies. I pray on their behalf.

I'm not just saying God help so and so I'm doing a gap standing

prayer. I'm pleading.

I'm pleading with the Lord. You can stand with me today.

I'll close up, intercede today, intercede today.

So it's important that intercession is not just some

past thing regulated for the Old Testaments in the New Testament

as well. Equally as much it is present

day practice as well. Pharaoh may not knew the Lord

like Moses knew the Lord, but he did recognize the power of

prayer. You tell, listen to me folks.

Is that not the case? How many people do you know that

may not know the Lord on a level of relationship that you know

the Lord, but they know the power of prayer and what do they

do? They'll call your number or

they'll see you and they'll say, will you please pray?

Now we give the Oh yeah, I'll pray for you and whether we ever

do, I'll leave that in your court.

But nonetheless, so if a Pagan king understood the necessity of

someone standing in the gap for him, then Brother Fred, I'm

asking myself, how much more should I as a child of God, then

stand in that gap? And Moses didn't delay Sister

McGee. He cried out that very day and

God responded. And So what I'm asking us here

today, this week, continuing onward, is that we intercede

without delay because there's people in your families, there's

people in our churches, there's people in our communities who

are overwhelmed with life and burdens and situations that they

cannot remove. And some of them don't even

know, it seems like, how to reach out to God.

But you do, You do. Hey man, so we need to cry out

to God, plead, stand in the gap. Hey man, we need to take it up

on our responsibility. Folks.

It would not hurt me one bit if I came in this church and I was

praying and all of a sudden it's like, man, am I in the first

Apostolic Church? I don't hear 1 lick of English

going on around here. That doesn't bother me.

It would not hurt my feelings if I hurt someone over in the

corner. Like what's going on?

It's unspeakable. It's grown and can't be uttered.

But I guarantee you in that woo something is happening.

But Hattano Boshaya, I've I've been exposed to too much.

Cut my teeth on the back of the Pew whenever some little old

lady somewhere is going. The hair of your neck stands up

on the back of your neck. Because that's not showmanship.

That's not artificial. That's somebody that's plugged

into something and something's going on in that moment.

If we bow our heads across this place, I'm asking us this week,

will we be found like Moses this week?

Someone be fervent. New Testament says the effectual

fervent prayer of a righteous man developed much.

Will someone be fervent? Will someone be immediate?

Will someone be unwavering in our prayers?

Because God may be wanting to intercede with His Spirit

through you, someone needs to maybe give a cry of deliverance

on behalf of someone this week, a cry of healing on behalf of

someone this week, a cry of salvation on behalf of someone

this week. What you saying, Pastor?

I'm saying pray, intercede today.

And when we do, we can trust that.

We can trust that that just as he did for Moses, the Lord will

respond to our prayers. Don't wait till tomorrow, do it

today. Hallelujah, Jesus, these altars

are open this morning. This would be a really good

response time today for us to go on and just move into a place of

prayer right now where they're in your Pew at the altar,

standing, kneeling. I don't care what your position

is, but move into a place of prayer right now and have a

conversation with God saying God, I'm hearing today.

I know there's a society all around me and some are saying

Lord, deliverance tomorrow or next week or maybe someday, but

God, I'm not waiting for the someday to start praying.

I'm going to pray today. I'm going to intercede today.

I'm going to petition heaven today.

God, I'm going to cry out to you, God, if you want to use me

as a vestal Lord on behalf of somebody else, help me, Lord, to

be sensitive to that Lord and to operate Lord Jesus in that.

Somebody's in need today. Somebody needs healing today.

Somebody has circumstances beyond their capability today.

Somebody needs salvation today. Somebody needs the light of the

glorious gospel to shine into their light today.

Somebody intercede today, Hennessy today.

Hello, Shamda Lavinio Bo Sataye. Pray with your understanding.

Pray in the spirit, Hennessy today.

We're not sitting around trying to hear what someone else says.

We're just trying to hear what heaven is saying.

We're just trying to hear what the unction of the Almighty is

directing. Hallelujah, Jesus.