Phil,

That's excellent.

Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson



At 08:41 PM 5/8/04, you wrote:
>Intercessors On The Move
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>                          By Phil Scovell
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>      I was visiting a church once called The Church On The Move.
>I went three times and didn't see all that much spiritual movement
>myself but then, I'm naturally critical.  Besides, it is the
>Lord's fault.  He's the one who called me to be an intercessor
>and a prophet.  Anyhow, the preaching in this church is good.  Not
>as good as my preaching, but that goes without saying.
>Regardless, the preaching is very good and very faith based and
>that's a good thing.
>
>      So, one day, during the pastor's sermon, he was trying to
>explain how we need to control our emotions.  He was focusing that
>day on joy and how to be a happy Christian.  Of course, joy and
>happiness are two totally different things.  Happiness you can get
>of a hit from a joint or a snort of powder up your nose or a swig
>from a bottle of booze or from a roll in the hay with a beautiful
>woman.  Joy is uniquely God because it is His character and you
>can't joy from any human experience.  but I digress.
>
>      In the pastor's sermon, as he tried to explain that we had to
>work at being joyful as a Christian, odd, though, I thought that
>Jesus did all the work, but again, I digress.  As the pastor was
>trying to explain how to work at being joyful in the Lord
>throughout your life, he used intercessors as an example, howbeit,
>a poor example, of joyfulness.  He said that all intercessors were
>joyless people and walked around acting sad all the time.
>Strange, I know a lot of intercessors and I don't know one who is
>like he described.  Anyhow, he then said, they need the joy of the
>Lord in their life.  He said, intercessors had a bad attitude
>about life in general.  They thought they carried the church and
>if they didn't pray for you, you would be in trouble.  Again,
>quite unusual because I don't know a single intercessor who has
>this attitude and I bet I know way more intercessors than he does.
>I'm beginning to wonder who this pastor hangs out with if he is
>getting this sort of feelings from intercessors.
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>      Since this pastor has very little idea what an intercessor
>is, let me tell you.  They are people who carry burdens for those
>who cannot carry them.  They are people who pray for, and with,
>others in agreement.  They are people who fast for others when
>called upon to do so by God.  They are people who will do
>spiritual battle for others who are to spiritually sick to do it
>for themselves.  They often are called upon to confront demons and
>demonic forces because God allows them to see what others often
>never see or know.  They are people who lift others up before the
>Lord; not take them down.  They are people who deliver God's love,
>through prayer, to those who cannot feel God's love any longer.
>They are people whom the Lord reveals truth about others, without
>giving them permission to speak to that person about what they
>know concerning their problem, but affords the intercessor a great
>opportunity to intercede for that one in need.  these are but a
>few things an intercessor is and does.
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>      finally, unlike some pastors, intercessors never pick
>themselves to be intercessors.  If they do, they very quickly
>learn they are not called because they get beat up in the
>spiritual realm before they can set one foot inside the door.  The
>only thing worse is being called to serve God as a prophet.
>Especially when most people believe the last prophet died out with
>the last apostle; whoever he was.
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