Prayer Streaming – #16

Prayerstreaming – the Interceding Heart

Matthew 9:35-38 (New American Standard Bible)

Jesus was going through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. “Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”

We cannot interceed for others without compassion.

This is not a quality that is second nature. Human nature is a pretty demanding self-centered nature. And while we can be moved with compassion for a few people or for very brief moments, God asks us to broaden our field of vision and die to ourselves. We have to be trained to see the needs of others over our own needs.

McHenry writes it this way:
“When we are filled with the Spirit, we’ll have the compassion of Christ within us. We’ll then see the diseased, the harassed, and the helpless so that we can pray they’ll be healed by the Healer, comforted by the Comforter, and shepherded by the Shepherd.”

This was her second way to become an intercessor.