Matt 14:15-21
15 As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a
remote place, and it's already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they
can go to the villages and buy themselves some food."
16 Jesus replied, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to
eat."
17 "We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish," they answered.
18 "Bring them here to me," he said. 19 And he directed the people to sit
down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up
to
heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the
disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. 20 They all ate and
were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken
pieces that were left over. 21 The number of those who ate was about five
thousand men, besides women and children.
May God bless,
Carl
my website -- http://www.nettally.com/saints/
my blog -- http://www.anniemayhem.com/cgi-bin/wordpress/
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Vicarious Intercession
by Oswald Chambers
..having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus. -Hebrews
10:19
Beware of thinking that intercession means bringing our own personal
sympathies and concerns into the presence of God, and then demanding that
He
do whatever we ask. Our ability to approach God is due entirely to the
vicarious, or substitutionary, identification of our Lord with sin. We
have
"boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus."
Spiritual stubbornness is the most effective hindrance to intercession,
because it is based on a sympathetic "understanding" of things we see in
ourselves and others that we think needs no atonement. We have the idea
that
there are certain good and virtuous things in each of us that do not need
to
be based on the atonement by the Cross of Christ. Just the sluggishness
and
lack of interest produced by this kind of thinking makes us unable to
intercede. We do not identify ourselves with God's interests and concerns
for others, and we get irritated with Him. Yet we are always ready with
our
own ideas, and our intercession becomes only the glorification of our own
natural sympathies. We have to realize that the identification of Jesus
with
sin means a radical change of all of our sympathies and interests.
Vicarious
intercession means that we deliberately substitute God's interests in
others
for our natural sympathy with them.
Am I stubborn or substituted? Am I spoiled or complete in my relation****p
to
God? Am I irritable or spiritual? Am I determined to have my own way or
determined to be identified with Him?
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