What is at the heart of intercession? For that matter, what is the heart of an intercessor? What is the role of the heart in intercession?

This month (September 2004) on the 24th at sundown begins Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In Temple times, two male goats were used to make this atonement for the people of Israel.

From last month’s vision: “I began to see the vast army of God…the larger weapons of the army were just wooden swords…that was all they had had to practice with….The Lord of Hosts…was riding at the head of this army….A sword of the Spirit came out from His mouth….

In April, as I was in prayer for the intercessors of Messianic Vision, I received a vision from God. I began to see the vast army of God surrounded by darkness.

Last week I shared about the sense I
had that the Lord is calling some of us away from the intimacy of the prayer closet and into the marketplace.

The book of Genesis records two instances where the descendants of Abraham were given this spiritual heritage: possess the gates of your enemies.

In all the materials I have read over the years concerning various ways to pray for Israel, I do not recall ever seeing cited the verses I am about to share with you this week.

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As I was in prayer in the Spirit this week for the intercessors of MV, I began to have a picture of the army of God.

People of prayer must stand against ungodly anger and discouragement everyday. Of the two, anger has always seemed to be to be the more destructive. But over the years I have come to recognize discouragement as a deadly enemy also.