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Wednesday November 12, 2025

The Way of the Intercessor

“…in actuality every born-again son of God has at once begun to be a priest-intercessor from the moment the Spirit has made his body His temple. We are commissioned people!

The way of the intercessor-priest is by whatever form of involvement the Spirit indicates to us that we can be in action in bringing our light to others. Obviously there can be no limits to what special way that is. But it will be in the form of self-giving, in no way engineered by us, but by which we take the place of those we are intercessors for, that they might take their places as redeemed sons of God. It is thus vicarious. It just will cost and will be a death for us–not sought for by us, but in some forms our heart and mind and body involvement for these others will bring a death: to our reputation in being called ‘fanatics,’ to our material and physical expenditure, to who knows what in what way. For death, as Jesus said in John 12:24, presses out His life for others (1 Peter 2:20-25). Paul again said, ‘We which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you’ (2 Cor. 4:12).

That’s the cost of intercession following on to the commission. Often we may not realize we are in an intercessory ‘death’ until we find we are! But then knowing that this is the intercessor’s way, we anticipate the glory in the suffering. He ‘poured out His soul unto death and…made intercession for the transgressors’ (Is. 53:11-12). ‘For the joy set before Him [He] endured the cross’ (Heb. 12:2).”

Taken from: To All Believers…It’s as Simple as This

By Norman Grubb

Pages 41-42