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Do you ever wonder if your prayers are making a difference? Are you battling for breakthrough in your family, marriage, or personal life? In this powerful episode, Jaime Luce unpacks the biblical role of intercession, drawing from the examples of Jesus and Moses to show why every believer is called to stand in the gap. This is more than encouragement—this is a call to action.

Whether you’re weary from the fight or unsure how to pray, this episode will strengthen your resolve and reignite your understanding of the authority you have in Christ.

What You’ll Learn

• What it truly means that Jesus is our Mediator (1 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 9:15)

• Why intercessory prayer is the most Christ-like act you can do

• How Moses’s story in Exodus 32 reveals the heart of a true biblical intercessor

• The difference between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant

• How the Holy Spirit intercedes for us when we don’t know how to pray

• Practical encouragement to pray even when you don’t feel like it—especially for people who “don’t deserve it”

Episode Chapters

(0:00:00) Understanding Jesus as Mediator & Intercessor

Jamie opens the episode with a passionate reminder: all believers are called to pray. She shares personal insight into the recording challenges and why this message is so urgent.

(0:11:20) Jesus and the New Covenant: A Better Mediator

Explore Hebrews 9 and 12 as Jamie explains the legal power of Jesus’ blood in mediating a better covenant, unlocking eternal promises and spiritual authority.

(0:25:21) Moses the Intercessor: A Model for Today

Walk through Exodus 32 as Moses pleads with God on behalf of Israel. Discover how his love, responsibility, and sacrifice mirror Jesus’ ultimate act of intercession.

(0:37:57) The Covenant and the Weight of Responsibility

This segment dives deeper into what a biblical covenant is—and how your prayer life is tied to God’s promises for your family, marriage, and legacy.

(0:45:51) The Power of Persistent Prayer

Learn how to access spiritual breakthrough by persisting in intercession. Jamie shares wisdom on praying for hard situations, including relational conflict and prodigal children.

(1:00:46) When You Don’t Know How to Pray: Let the Spirit Intercede

Drawing from Romans 8, Jamie reminds us that the Holy Spirit intercedes through us when we are weak or out of words. You’re never praying alone.

Key Scriptures Mentioned

• 1 Timothy 2:5

• Hebrews 9:15, 12:24

• Exodus 32:7–14

• Romans 8:26–27, 34

• Hebrews 7:25

• Daniel 9:3

• Jeremiah 9:17–26

Ready to Intercede?

Jesus is still interceding at the right hand of the Father—and He’s calling us to do the same. If you’ve been waiting for a breakthrough, it may begin with prayer.

Full Transcript

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0:00:00 – Jaime Luce
Welcome to the Jamie Luce podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in today. We’re going to be talking today about the subject of what it is for Jesus to be our mediator, what that means for our lives and how that is supposed to be an example for us as we walk out relationships in this life. As an intercessor, someone who is called to intercede and I know the temptation please do not turn this off if you think I’m not an intercessor and I don’t need to hear this the truth is, we are all called to intercede and I’m going to prove that to you in how the Lord beautifully shows something to us through several different passages of scripture, one being with Moses in Exodus, but the others being all throughout the New Testament not just of what Jesus has done for us, but if we are to be those who are his disciples, who walk in his likeness, whose desire it is and the purpose of our life as Christians is to become like him. I think I can challenge us today to really get serious about prayer for those we love. I’m going to say this, probably several times today during this recording. In fact, the enemy doesn’t want this message to get out Quite frankly, I had already recorded this message. I had a real anointing on it. It was a very strong anointing on the message and we tried to use it to publish it and it literally just was static. You could see me talking and the first 15 minutes were just static and then again at the end static, and I was really discouraged at first and I realized, jamie, don’t be discouraged. The Lord did have a message he wants his people to hear and it’s an important message, important enough that not only was there opposition to getting it out to you, but that the Lord was burning it in my heart today. That because sometimes here’s another. Just to be frank, there are times when you, if you, do this very much, or at least for me, this is what I have run into personally. I don’t know about other people, but if I do something and once I get it delivered, if there’s a problem with it, I may not go back and do it or I may put it on the shelf and it may not get seen for quite some time. I may not, may not do that, but I felt the urgency that this particular message does need to get out and that’s why there’s opposition and I’m hoping that even right now, if you feel opposition to listening to this, that that might be a clue that you actually need to listen to this. We’re going to start with Jesus and what Jesus has done for us, how that equates to our life, but we’re going to go into a very intimate personal conversation between Moses and God and I believe that God’s going to show some things and reveal some things that you’ve probably never seen there before. It was new for me, and when the Lord illuminated it to me, it was like wow, and I want so badly to get there and be able to share that with you. But I think that this will impact your life, impact your family.

If you are dealing with things that just don’t seem that you can’t seem to get the victory over, or they keep coming back. These issues keep coming back. The things that you’re dealing with they’re just, they’re overwhelming, and it’s a battle, and you’re having to stand your ground and pray through something, to intercede for something. I don’t know if you’ve ever had to pray, um, not just for a situation that you are involved with, but maybe. Maybe there’s opposition and you don’t want to pray, meaning you don’t want to pray for that person. You might be angry, you might be holding a grudge, you might be feeling they don’t deserve it, and I just folks.

There is a reason that God instituted prayer. There is a reason and a way that he communicates with his people. There is a way to speak and receive answers to prayer. I’m not the one who’s saying you need to pray. It’s God who showed us through prayer. Jesus how many times pulled away to pray. It was his connect to the father and if that was Jesus’s way to connect, I certainly need to be doing that. I certainly need to be doing that. If Jesus had to pray three times in the garden to get the victory, so that he could go to the cross and do what he needed to do, then when I have to do something I don’t want to do, you think it’s going to take one prayer, one quick prayer. It might take me a whole lot more than three prayers if it took the son of God three prayers to get through to victory, to finishing up what he needed to do in the garden before heading to the cross. If I have to die, if, if I have to sacrifice and something I need to do puts me on the line, my emotions on the line, me on the line, my emotions on the line, my heart on the line, my family on the line, what’s important to me on the line, then I certainly need to be somebody who knows how to get in and pray and intercede. Before I give away everything, before we even read a scripture.

I want to start by giving you an illustration to help you understand this idea of what a mediator is. I’m sure that you have purchased something your phone. If you’ve got a phone with you, I’m sure that you had to do this in order to open and turn your phone on to use it. But there are terms of service that you have to agree to and many people don’t read them. They literally scroll to the bottom, check the box and move on. They don’t even know what they’re agreeing to. But there are terms of agreement and most of the agreements that we end up signing, whether we’ve actually read them or not, are actual um, there, there’s language in there that have has to do with my rights. If there become, if there comes a problem and I’m wanting to sue because I feel that I was wronged or taken advantage of or something didn’t do what it was supposed to do and I paid for that and I go to sue that entity. I have probably, in that term of agreement, agreed to not go to court and to use an arbiter to mediate between us to come to some kind of settlement so that it doesn’t go to court. And we all understand that language.

So let’s look. Jesus’s whole life was a life of intercession, was a life of intercession. His coming literally was him interceding on our behalf so that we could be reconciled back to the Father. That is literally the purpose in Jesus’ coming to reconcile us to the Father. His coming is intercession. His whole life in healing people, bringing heaven to earth, every assignment that Jesus walked and fulfilled or spoke, was doing what the Father asked him to do on God’s behalf to us and then on our behalf to God, to receive what we needed from him. That’s a mediator, that’s intercession. So I want us to look at 1 Timothy 2.5.

If Jesus’ whole life was to seek and save that which was lost, if that is a type of a definition for intercession to seek and save that which was lost, what is 1 Timothy 2.5 say? For there is one God and there is one mediator between God and men the man, christ Jesus. So it’s clear. It’s clear who God has chosen what he’s chosen to do. There was one clear mediator, only one possibility the son of God, who became flesh and dwelt among us. All right, let’s go to Hebrews 6. But as it is, christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old, as the covenant that he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. Let me read that again but as it is, christ has obtained a ministry that is much more excellent than the old, as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. So the covenant. What this is telling us is that there is a covenant, a term of agreement, right, the terms of agreement that we sign. There is a covenant that he mediates and that that he mediates that covenant is better. This new covenant that he mediates is better than the old, since it is enacted on better promises, on better promises.

I want to sit here for just a minute because if you’re not familiar with covenant, I’m saying loosely, using the analogy of terms of agreement. But in order to understand covenant, we have to understand what a covenant is when we get married married if you do not belong to christ, if you are not someone who serves the lord. You probably look at marriage as a contract, but for those of us who serve jesus christ, who have given our lives and have agreed to come into a union, that is underneath his headship, kind of like the triangle right God at the top and then you and your spouse, when you come together, make the triangle. That understanding is that, because we belong to Christ and because we are doing this unto Christ for the purposes that Christ has established for our marriage, that means I have come into a covenant. A covenant is blood. It’s blood. The shedding of blood was necessary. I’m getting a little bit ahead of myself. We’ll get there in just a minute.

Go to Hebrews 9.15. I’m going to give you many scriptures today. If you don’t have something to write with, maybe grab. I’m going to give you many scriptures today. If you don’t have something to write with, maybe grab your phone, get out, pull up your notes app, but take some notes, write these down. Hebrews 9, 15. Therefore, he is the mediator of a new covenant so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance. So we just read in Hebrews 8 6 that it is a better covenant because it has better promises.

Here in Hebrews 9, 15, who are called, may receive the promised eternal inheritance. There’s a full inheritance to receive, since a death occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. So under the first covenant, we were brought into covenant by law and we know that. Scripture tells us that there’s not one of us who has not sinned, not one of us. All have fallen short of the glory of God. All have sinned and it is necessary that we would. In the old testament, the way to receive um forgiveness, the way to have your sins covered you needed them covered. The same way, adam and Eve in the garden needed to now be covered. The places of vulnerability, those places now that there is shame and need to be covered. You need a covering, and that was a blood sacrifice that had to happen in order for the true skin to cover the skin. We needed to be covered, and that old covenant was kept by the shedding of blood, according to the law. But now the new covenant provides for us promises that don’t just cover us for the next year. They give us eternal life, full of the blessing of all that belongs to God, which will become our inheritance.

Scripture tells us that Jesus’s inheritance was the nation’s. He was given back everything that he died for, everything that had been lost. He has now received back as his inheritance for being that blood sacrifice in our place. Go to Hebrews 12, 24. And to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks. A better word than the blood of Abel? The blood of Abel, meaning the blood of Abel, was able to cry out for justice to God, and God heard that blood. Because there was bloodshed. Innocent blood had been shed. God heard that innocent blood, but Christ’s blood is pure. There was no sin. There was never a mistake made. He was holy and righteous, lived this life, but sinlessly, and because of it his blood is better. His sacrifice not only speaks but is a better word.

Period, okay, so let’s talk about what it is to mediate and let’s talk about covenant for a minute. To mediate If I were to talk about this in layman’s terms in in right now, in our, in our everyday American vernacular, uh, it, if you think of private, um arbitration would be a good word for mediate, where the parties agree to have their disagreements resolved by a neutral third party, the arbiter, rather than to go through the court system. The decision of the arbitrator could be legally enforceable. Okay, so this is really that’s in our natural terms. We’re saying that there has to be someone who is a third party and that that third party is doing the job of trying to resolve a problem. Okay, resolve a disagreement. And I would say, let’s go ahead and use these words for a moment. We have a disagreement and I would say, let’s go ahead and use these words for a moment.

We have a disagreement, we are out of alignment unless we come into relationship with Jesus Christ. Our sin disagrees with the law of Christ, the law of God. It disagreed the old covenant. It disagreed with the law. We broke the law. Now, when Jesus came, he said he didn’t come to do away with the law, but he came to fulfill the law. So in Jesus, when we believe on him, we are not only freed from the law, but we receive every benefit of the one that they are representing. They are the arbitrator. So they have come in, and this third party between us and God is Jesus. He’s going to settle this disagreement, he’s going to fix this and we will no longer have to go before the judge and be judged. We won’t have to go through the court system. It is Jesus who, literally scripture says, is interceding for us. We’ll read that in a little bit. He’s it’s like he’s our attorney and he’s saying my blood covered, I made all of this right. There is no problem. They in fact get to receive now all the benefits of this covenant relationship, this blood sacrifice covenant, this, this um, new, better covenant full of promises that belong to them now because our arbitrator, jesus Christ, paid the price for it. The bill had already been paid. Now what is owed to us comes to us by his sacrifice.

Okay, one who mediates between two parties to remove a disagreement or reach a common goal. Without a mediator, someone loses. If I purchase something, a computer, and I sign the agreement, I’m going to go to an arbiter. If there’s a problem, an arbitrator. Let’s say I do that. Let’s say that there’s a problem. If I have no one to represent me against a huge conglomerate company, do I have a chance? Do I even have a chance? I’m going to be a loser. I signed the agreement.

I didn’t even, probably, read what was there. I mean, honestly, most people don’t read them. They don’t even know what they’ve agreed to, they don’t know what the terms of the contract are, and yet they’ve signed it. And so we have to understand Jesus full well, knew what his sacrifice was going to have to be His personal death, his blood, innocent blood shed for the guilty. His personal death his blood innocent blood shed for the guilty. And yet how many of us don’t realize that without going to him, we miss out on all the benefits that belong to us by that covenant that we have signed?

How foolish would it be for me to say I believe in Jesus Christ, I’ve come into relationship with him, I call myself a Christian, I go to church on Sundays, but I never read the will, I never read the covenant, I never read the book. I have no idea that I can pray and ask that he would heal my body If I, if I don’t read it. I don’t know that the reason he came was not just to seek and save that which was lost, but he came to heal the brokenhearted. If I were to turn to the scripture and read all the things that Jesus says he came to do, the only reason I know that is because I actually read it. But what good would it do me if I don’t have a relationship with this person who mediates between me and the father.

I could have the book minus the mediator. I could have a mediator and not know what’s in the book. Both are are um, a a far cry from what it should be and what should be available to us and how we should be living Now. If, again, if you are facing major challenges today, you need to hear this, you need to understand what I’m saying. We have a covenant with the Lord Jesus Christ. With the Lord Jesus Christ, our Father made it so that his blood was the stamp. You know, back in the days when they would have to carry the handwritten note, they would seal it with the wax and the seal and only the person it was sent to could break the seal and open it. Even the book of Revelation tells us who is worthy to open the seals. Only Jesus Christ is worthy. It is his blood that seals what we have.

What access we have to the father, to the kingdom of God, what access we have to our inheritance, to blessings, to answered prayer, is found in the mediator, jesus Christ. Okay, I want us to go, because this is a beautiful um, a beautiful picture, because if we don’t have a mediator and someone loses, think about, think about how the father feels about this. We tend to understand like we can miss out, like we care about people we love and we think if they don’t give their life to Christ they’re missing out, but we don’t realize that our father loses, jesus loses, both parties lose if we don’t come to this agreement together, if we don’t come together in this covenant. In this covenant, no one would want to sacrifice and give a great sacrifice and have it not accomplish something our father does not want to have had to send his son to die on a cross and pay, pay our penalty, just so that it gets ignored, so that it is shown no value and no importance and not taken advantage of. We’re not wrong of me to keep my mouth shut and not to go to God and say God, you paid this price with your son’s blood. That’s worth everything. That’s worth everything. Hear and answer my prayer. Don’t let his blood fall to the ground and be wasted. Let us live and put that blood to use for the purpose that God intended it.

I want you to go to Exodus 32. We’re going to read 7 through 14. And this is a really powerful, really powerful few scriptures. Here I want you to see what God does and and, in turn, what Moses does, and this piece of scripture right here, this, these pattern, this pattern that is shown um, is seen many times in different ways throughout scripture and this is our um. You’ll see people used the same tactics, um, when approaching certain people, and you’ll know what I mean in just a moment. Um, but this is us getting the opportunity to hear.

I mean, have you ever wondered, like man, what would it have been to walk and talk with Moses, or to have what Moses had to be able to walk with God the way he did? That, literally, scripture says that God said of Moses that he is my friend, this is someone that he well, he said that of Abraham, but he talks to him face to face. That Moses was able to say God, I just want to see you, I know you, I hear you, I’m obeying you, but I want to see you. And he asked to see God’s glory. And God says Moses, I can’t let you really see me. If you see me, you’ll die. You can’t possibly take in who I am. I’m too much for you. It will kill you. My glory is too great. You are too finite to be able to hold and see this eternal glory. You can’t physically do it, but let me tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to hide you in the cleft of the rock and I’m going to pass by and I’m going to take my hand away just in time so you can see as I walk past and you’ll see my backside.

And the Bible calls it when you look up, what that meant. He showed him his goodness Of all things to show Moses. He shows him his goodness and while he does, he declares who he is to Moses. He could have said anything. He could have said I am the judge of all the earth. I know everything you’ve ever done, everything you’ll ever do. You need to fear me and walk before me in fear and trembling. He could have said you know he could have said anything. But what did he choose to do?

When he walked past Moses, in an effort to help Moses understand the goodness of God, how God describes himself, how he speaks about his own character, who God is and who he wants to, he walks past Moses and tells him I am the God that is long-suffering and faithful. I pronounce goodness on those who love me, I mean. He goes on to say how wonderful of a God he is, how good he really is, how good he really is, how good he really is In fact. Maybe I should look that up for you real quick, just so you have it, Because I just think that’s such a powerful thing to know. What God says to Moses is, if I could type and talk of the same thing. What God says to Moses when Moses wants to see God’s glory, okay. The Lord replies this After he says I will make my goodness pass before you and I will announce to you the meaning of my name.

This is found in Exodus 33, verses 18 to 20, which is just right after what we’re going to read, and it says I show kindness and mercy to anyone I want to, but you may not see the glory of my face, for man may not see me and live. Let’s continue. In fact, that was the first part. They didn’t let me get to the second part. Let’s go there. Okay, the Lord passed verse six. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin folks. This is, this is the god we serve and the love that he has bestowed on his people, on his people.

And it is in this exchange that we see a very private conversation between Moses and God. Moses would go up and disappear for 40 days and just talk to God. That alone should convict us. How often do we even get away for 40 minutes, let alone 40 days? Just 40 minutes to pull away and just want to be in God’s presence. This is the heart of a mediator. This is the heart of an intercessor. So let’s look at that.

Let’s go to 32, verses 7 to 14. And it says and the Lord said to Moses go down. This is when they have Moses is up in the mountain and the people think where’s Moses? It’s been a long time, he’s not here. And now they’re saying we need to, we need a God. We’re out here in this wilderness. We came out here to serve. We came out here to worship. We don’t have a God. Where’s Moses? Where’s God? And they literally make a golden calf and act fools. They just act like fools. Okay, so this is happening while Moses is getting the very word of God on how to live and be in relationship with the God of all creation.

And the Lord said to Moses go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said these are your gods, o Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. And the Lord said to Moses I have seen this people and behold, it is a stiff necked people. Now, therefore, let me alone that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them in order that I may make a great nation of you.

But Moses implored the Lord, his God, and said oh Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why, should the Egyptians say, with evil intent, did he bring them out to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people. Anger and relent from this disaster against your people. Remember Abraham, isaac and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self and said to them I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever. And the Lord relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.

There’s a lot here and I’m going to try to quickly give this to you, but I want you to see this when God approached Moses about what was happening down the mountain with the children of Israel, god does something very strategic when he speaks to Moses regarding the children of Israel. God says to Moses your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt. What’s God doing? Why is he saying that? Why is he saying your people that you brought out? God is wanting to do something very important here, and what he’s doing here he does with every single one of us. So please listen carefully to this.

God is saying to Moses Moses, these people, these are your kin, this is your family, this is where you come from, these are your relatives, this is your heritage, this is your inheritance. This is your heritage, this is your inheritance. This is the people that you actually ran from Pharaoh from, because you cared about their plight. You were raised and saw the way they were treated. You know what they were subjected to and it got you so upset and you cared so much, even though you were safe in the palace. What did you do? You killed an Egyptian. Now, moses was wrong to murder. He obviously had an anger issue right that he hadn’t dealt with, probably not just anger about that. He was removed from his family. What that did to him being raised in complete contrast to the life of what a Hebrew would grow up learning and believing, versus what was taught and believed and how they worshiped in Pharaoh’s house, All the gods versus the one true living God. Okay, so, even in his comfort, even in this palace, even in God’s provision, and doing that on purpose, so that Moses would be the man who could lead. They would follow this man, they would understand his position. They knew all about this. God specifically knew how to connect Moses to his own people, and God does this with us.

When we see those that we love acting crazy, not doing what they’re supposed to be doing, you’re dealing with the consequences of whatever that is. They need prayer. They could be, they could be running from God. They could be prodigals. It could be that they’ve never known God. That you’re, that you could have friends and people you care about. You could have a spouse or your children. You know family members, siblings, people you care about. You could have a spouse or your children. You know family members, siblings, people you care about who don’t know God, who aren’t living the life that they could be living.

And what does God do? He reminds Moses this is your people and you. It was you who had to go, stand before Pharaoh and say the words let my people go. It was you who had to go stand before Pharaoh and say the words let my people go. It was you who had to hold up your rod in faith and let those people follow through on dry ground. When you, when the red sea was split, it was you who commanded the 10 plagues to hit and you who stopped them by prayer. You were interceding even for Pharaoh.

Back in the while. You were still waiting to get deliverance. You, you, moses, were still waiting to get deliverance. You, you, moses. These are people you care about and God is saying I want you to remember the love you have for your people. I want you to connect with them and understand what’s going on in them, with them. Get involved, get involved as a mediator. Get involved as an intercessor, get involved with your people.

God is not saying Moses, these are my people and I want to make you responsible. He’s saying, no, moses, they’re your people, you’re responsible for them. You’ve led them out here. They’re your kin, you are responsible. God is literally putting this on Moses and folks. That same challenge is being made to us. What did God say? He tells Moses listen. I’ve seen this. People, your people. They’re a stiff neck people. They’re stubborn. They don’t listen. They quickly turn aside. When they know the truth, they quickly turn away from it. They still want what they want. They’re strong-willed, stubborn.

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And what does God say to Moses? Get out of my way, because I’m going to destroy them and I’ll make a great nation out of you. What God has just done is laid before Moses. A choice is laid before Moses. A choice Laid before Moses, a choice, moses, these are your people.

I know you love these people. You have been giving your life to lead this people to constantly come to me when they need food, when they need water, when they have disputes. They need help, when they are struggling, when this is a long journey, when they have an enemy chasing them and there is a wall of water in front of them, when they don’t know what to do and it’s cold at night and it’s hot during the day. It was the mediator, moses, who would meet with God and God would show up because of that mediation and there was a cloud by day and there was a pillar of fire by night and the Red Sea split open and the plagues didn’t affect them in Goshen and they had water from the rock and manna to eat to provide for them. That came by way of a mediator and God is saying these are your people.

Now I know, moses, that you’ve done right, that you have obeyed my voice. When I called you, you answered and you went and you did what I asked you to do. You did it kind of stubbornly. You didn’t have confidence in yourself but you obeyed, and now you have brought this people out and it’s by your blood, sweat, sweat and tears that you are leading this people every day. You’re so exhausted that we learn in scripture that his father-in-law had to say you can’t keep this up, it’s going to kill you. You’re going to have to choose some other men to help you get this done.

Moses was giving his everything, his everything, to follow God and do what God asked him to do To be this intercessor. Follow God and do what God asked him to do to be this intercessor. And so God reminds him of his love and his attachment and his responsibility to those that belong to him and he says I’ll still take care of you if you don’t, if you don’t intercede on their behalf, because it is their sin, not yours. They are stiff-necked. You’re obeying. I’ll make a great nation out of you. But God is seeing what’s inside of Moses’s heart and look what Moses does, what a true intercessor and mediator does.

A type, a shadow of Jesus and he says, oh Lord. In fact it says that Moses implored the Lord. He begged God. He begged him. I’m sure he was on his face pleading oh Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say with evil intent did he bring them out to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people. The reason we have the word relent there.

We know, according to scripture, that God doesn’t change his mind, but there are things about God that are just too big and too wonderful for us to understand. We try, but our finite minds can’t possibly gather and have enough information to make the right to have the right knowledge to understand. And so God would use language and there would be things that we could see to give us ideas about what was taking place. God has set before Moses a choice to be made, and so the relenting is not so much of a changing of the mind, but it is a course of action that’s going to be taken. It’s using language to give us a picture. The same way that God said that he brought them out on eagles’ wings Well, he didn’t literally bring eagles in and have them sit on eagles and then fly out. It’s a picture. We know that God covers us with his wings. Or he spoke to Jerusalem and said said how often would I have gathered you like a hen gathers the chicks. He’s wanting to protect us and cover us with his wings. He’s not a bird, but he’s giving us a picture of what that means. And so he’s presenting before Moses.

Moses, will you love them enough to intercede when they deserve wrath, when they deserve to have a different outcome? Will you intercede, just like Jesus when, hanging on a cross, knows what they deserve and says Father, forgive them. They don’t know what they’re doing. Moses has an opportunity here, and Moses takes that opportunity and says Lord, you love this people. You’re the one who spoke a nation out of the man, abraham, from a nation that was not Israel. You created something out of nothing. You birthed a nation and made promises to a man who followed you by faith, left everything to follow you. The father of our faith believed for a child in his great old age and you answered and you promised him that this people, even in the covenant of blood that you cut with Abraham, he’s taking God back to the place that the covenant was created by saying this is your people. Moses is reminding God God, you’re the one who told Abraham get the animals, cut the sacrifice. And God made the covenant by walking in between that sacrifice, that Abraham had to beat the sacrifice. And God made the covenant by walking in between that sacrifice, that that Abraham had to beat the animals and the birds of prey off of that sacrifice so that God could come and make a covenant with man. And during that time, when Abraham was put into a deep sleep, god showed him what would become of Israel and that they would go into Egypt for 400 years and have to live in this slavery for this time, but that God would deliver them and bring them out and take them into a promised land and to the great promises that God made. And Moses is saying God, you remember, this is your people. You want me to remember them. I will intercede for them. And how I intercede for them is I remind you of your promises, of your goodness, of all that you said you were going to do. You said you would do this. Remember Abraham, isaac and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self and said to them I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and to all, this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring and they shall inherit it forever. And it was with those words and that intercession that the Lord relented. He did not give them what they deserved. He instead saved them from that destruction, saved them from that destruction, kept the promises intact. All right, I want us to go over just real quickly.

Covenant. The word covenant I’ve explained already, it’s a blood covenant. The first mention of covenant is in Genesis. Covenant I’ve explained already, it’s a blood covenant. The first mention of covenant is in Genesis 6, 18. I will establish my covenant with you. It’s God speaking to Noah. This is in regard to the uh, to the rainbow, and he said there will never again be a flood. It was a promise. That covenant holds promises. We intercede on behalf of the covenant.

Covenant is so important. Of the covenant, it occurs. The word covenant occurs another 270 times throughout just the Old Testament. It means agreement, covenant, contract, compact. There were covenants or agreements between nations, between kings, between kings and friends between friends. But God’s covenants are divine. They are not earthly, they are divine. It is between God and man and birthed in blood. So does Jesus mediate the agreement between God and man? This beautiful picture that we see with Moses? We see the love of the father who mediates through using Jesus and his blood, his sacrifice On the cross. Jesus spoke the words father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. That statement, because it is legally enforceable. It is legally enforceable. The mediator has the legal authority to enforce this. That statement is legal and binding for those who come into the covenant relationship. So how does this apply to us then, and how is it ministered through us?

If Jesus is our example, if we, who are in relationship with people, don’t intercede on their behalf, who will? Who will? Who will If you won’t intercede and take time to pray and intercede for your husband or your wife, whatever they’re dealing with good, bad or indifferent your children, your friends, your family members, your co-workers, people you live with, people you interact with. If you, being the Christian, will not be an intercessor, who will Do you understand the weight of this? If you don’t do it, who’s going to do it? Who’s going to do it, folks?

The way that God instituted the way that we communicate and hear God’s voice is through his word and prayer. His word and prayer. Well, through the word, we see what God did. They spoke to one another. That’s prayer In intercession. Is me coming before him and saying God, I lay before you my family. You know what they’re dealing with, you know the struggles, you see the pain. You know the obstacles, you know the pain, you know the obstacles, you know the mountains that have to come down. Father God, remember your covenant. Remember the blood that Jesus shed. Remember that you said you would give us these great and perfect promises.

If we don’t intercede, who will?

Who will, folks? It is the same scenario that God shows in our lives, as we just read. With Moses, you have an opportunity. Will the people you love be destined to destruction? Or will you mediate? Will you intercede? Will you call on Jesus and say Jesus, you are the Savior, save, save.

Give us answers. Show us the way. Order our steps, god. Open our minds, help us to understand. Give us minds that know and understand. Give us wisdom and discernment. Give us answers, oh God. Open doors that no man can close, close doors that no man can open. Show us the way forward, lord. Lead us by the Holy Spirit. Give us a check in our spirit when we should stop, when we shouldn’t take another step. Give us that unctuous that we know when we’re supposed to speak and open our mouth and declare a truth. God, we need you Intercede, cry out, remind God of the promises that he has made to you. Be a person of prayer and intercession. What will happen to your family? Do you know how many marriages could have been saved if one of the spouses would have stopped with the fighting and the bickering and interceded, got on their face and cried out to God and said God, save this marriage. Father, intercede on our behalf. Give me a right heart. Help me to see what you see. Help me to care the way you care. Help me to see what’s really going on the deception that the enemy is bringing in the dissension.

We know, according to so much of Paul’s teaching, through so many of his letters, that our carnality is what needs to be dealt with. If we are carnal, we are those who do a lot of backbiting. We have got mouths on us. We think that we deserve better treatment. Somehow we put ourselves above others when we know, according to scripture, we are not to see ourselves more highly than we ought. We are to understand. We are in a blood covenant with our spouse and it is incumbent upon us to intercede for that covenant relationship. That God would save it, that God would save it.

Now, I’m not saying any of this to bring condemnation on anybody. I know we go through difficult things, confusing things. Sometimes we are thrust into things we didn’t want it. It happened, we can’t control it. Sometimes we made bad decisions. Sometimes we need to just fall on the altar and say, oh God, I’m interceding on my own behalf. Forgive me, god, set me on a new course. I see where I went wrong. I don’t want to make those same mistakes again. But it’s these kinds of prayers and intercession that we go and we pray. We knock on heaven’s doors for answers.

I watched a message that Karen Wheaton had taught so powerful. Go find it, go, go find it. She did a message. I think it was at a church in Nashville, tennessee. Um, she was a guest speaker there. Um, for, uh, kent and Candy Christmas, their church I’m forgetting Regeneration Church, I believe, is the name of the church. Go look it up.

And she talks about intercession and she uses the scripture story, the parable that says that the man had someone come visit him and it was late and everyone had already gone to bed and he didn’t have any bread and he needed bread and he went to his neighbor’s house and he knocked. And the parable is, if you keep knocking, eventually that person’s going to open the door and give you what you need, just so you’ll leave them alone. Just so you’ll leave them alone, just so you’ll leave them alone. And there’s also the parable of the little woman. The little woman who goes to the judge, the unjust judge, and she’s the. What does the unjust judge say? Give her what she wants. She’s wearing me out.

And God says hear what the unjust judge has to say. And we know how much more will. A father who loves us, who is in relationship with us, who called us out, who sent his son to die, who’s already paid the price and does not want his blood wasted? How much is he waiting for us to intercede so he can say the destruction is relented, there is no more destruction. I have come to save. That’s Jesus’s purpose to seek and save that which was lost.

Folks, this is what we should be about. If Jesus said he had to be about his father’s business at 12, he understood this as a boy. We need to grow up in the faith and be mature Christians and accept the mantle of intercession for our families and those that we are connected with. What is a missionary? Someone who got a burden and cared and loved about a people that they weren’t even connected to, who went and chose them the way Christ chose us. The Gentiles chose us. We weren’t even part of the family and chose us, and those missionaries go and give their lives in intercession for a group of people to bring them to the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

We are lazy. Shame on us. God forgive us for our laziness. We are spoiled. We don’t realize. All you have to do is go to China and see the underground church and the sacrifices they make and the intercessory prayer that goes on. Folks, we have got to wake up our families and the answers that we need for our life. Who knows what’s going to happen with our governments, the way they are, what’s going to happen to this world? But no matter what happens, jesus is the answer. Our mediator has come, and if we will come into that covenant relationship and be willing to be those who intercede, we can see heaven’s answers touch earth and we can get those wonderful, better promises manifested in our lives.

Daniel 9.3 says Then I turned my face to the Lord, god seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. This is the way Daniel would go before God on behalf of his people who were exiled, his kin, his people. He would turn his face to God, he would humble himself in prayer and with fasting, pleading for mercy. God, see us have mercy. I remember so many times hearing my grandmother pray those prayers when something devastated, the news of devastation would come of some kind, some form, and she’d immediately go into prayer and she’d say God, crying out to God with tears running down her face have mercy God, have mercy God. I have prayed those same prayers. If you don’t pray, who will If you don’t pray for them, who will?

There’s a little note I wanted to read to you regarding please excuse my now stuffy nose, but this is on intercession and this is a note in my bible and it says in biblical intercession involves someone faithfully and continually pleading particularly to God for the needs of another person or group of people. The prayer is for the Lord to take action in their situation. That is intercession. That is intercession. Jeremiah 9, 17 to 26 says this. This is what the Lord Almighty says.

Consider now exclamation point call for the wailing women to come. Send for the most skillful of them. Let them come quickly and wail over us till our eyes overflow with tears and water streams from our eyelids. The sound of wailing is heard from Zion. How ruined we are, how great is our shame. We must leave our land because our houses are in ruins. This is speaking about the exile.

Now you women hear the word of the Lord. These are to the women who wail before God, who are willing to intercede and cry out to God. And says you hear the word of the Lord. Open your ears to the words of his mouth. Teach your daughters how to wail. Teach one another a lament. Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses. It has removed the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares say this is what the Lord declares.

So he’s telling these wailing, precious interceding women what to pray, telling them teach your daughters how to do this, and this is what you declare. Dead bodies will lie like dung in the open field, like cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather them. And this is what the Lord says. Let not the wise boast in their wisdom, or the strong boast of their strength, or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this, that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord who exercises kindness and justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight, declares the Lord. Again, what is God saying? Remember who I am the God of righteousness and goodness I love. I’m long suffering. I will help If you will intercede to me for these horrible things that have happened. Whatever devastation that you might be facing or your family is facing or friends are facing, we can know that if we intercede. He says this is what I say to those who intercede, no matter how bad this is. I am a good God and I answer prayer. I answer prayer, jeremiah, that was Jeremiah. Let’s also read. Let’s see, see.

I want to go to Romans 8. This is verse 26 and 27, because sometimes, when we’re in prayer, we don’t know how we ought to pray. We’re overwhelmed by the circumstance, we don’t know the answer, we don’t know the way out. It’s just like we’re in a black hole and we don’t know how to get out. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans, and he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. Praise God, praise God, praise God. I want to give you just a couple more things. I want us to look at Romans 8, 34, and it says who, then, is the one who condemns? No one.

Christ Jesus, who died and more than that, who was raised, is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. One of the translations says he is ever interceding, forever ongoing. He’s always interceding for us. His blood is crying out better promises. He is interceding. We call on the Holy Spirit. If you have not prayed in the Spirit, pray in the Spirit. Welcome the Holy Spirit to pray through you. Let him intercede, even if it comes out in groans that you can’t understand. Let him pray what needs to be prayed. He will pray the will of the Father, according to God’s word, for your life, for the answers that you need, and the last scripture I’ll give you is Hebrews 7.25. Scripture I’ll give you is Hebrews 7 25. Therefore, he is able to save those who come to God through him because he always lives to intercede for them.

God has sent Jesus, who interceded for us and is at the right hand of God right now, interceding Now. That’s the relationship we have as Christians. We have the way that Moses had Folks. We have an opportunity today. You may not pay the consequences for those around you and God will still bless you. He’ll still bless you according to your obedience.

But there is a higher call, the call of intercession. Will you pray for those who don’t deserve it? Maybe they do and they just need help. Maybe they do need it, and it’s your dear family and friends and they do need it. They do deserve it. They love the Lord, but they need help. They need an army of those who will pray and intercedecede, for the battle is strong. When Israel had to take its territory, he made every single one of the tribes of Israel swear that they would all fight until all the land was taken. All of them had to fight, not just the one little tribe, they all had to fight so that they could take the land that was necessary.

We want to be those who intercede, the way Jesus interceded for us. So I ask you again if you don’t, who will? Who will? Do we think that our pastors will? Do you honestly think, if it’s your child who’s sick, that your pastor will pray harder for your child than you will? I’m sorry, but those of us who have birthed children, nobody can pray harder or more intensely for that child than that child’s mother and father.

We want our pastors, of course, to pray for us. We want people to pray for us. We need to pray, we need to pray. This is why God told Moses they’re your people. Remember the relationship you have with them. Remember what it’s cost you to be connected to them. And I remind us that very same thing today Remember, remember. And when we do, we know that God hears us, he’s merciful, he cares, he loves us. He’s waiting for the cry to come up to him to answer. We can choose. We can choose, but I pray today that your choice is to intercede.

Let me pray for you, heavenly Father. We are so grateful for your word. I’m so grateful for your sacrifice that you sent your son to intercede for me, for us. Where would we be? We would be destined for hell and destruction if you had not loved us, even in our sin, and interceded for us while we were yet sinners.

Father, I pray that you place the burden of intercession on your people, that we would love those we are connected to, that we would love those that you bring their name to us, that we would call out in prayer to cover those that we are connected to, that we would love them by loving you and following your example. You said that it is our reasonable service through Paul, you said that it is our reasonable service to live this life of sacrifice. God, challenge us if we have not prayed ourselves for our own family members, for our own marriages, our own children, our own friends. God, let us bear this burden so that we see the fruit and make your sacrifice a multiplied sacrifice and not wasted. Help us, lord. We call on your mercy, we call on your grace and for everyone listening today who is battling big battles, mountains that need to come down, father, I call on your goodness, I call on your mercy, I call on the fact that you have made us permanent eternal promises and that you will manifest, because of your son’s blood, the answers that they need. And we will be careful to turn back to you, like the leper who was cleansed, and say thank you, thank you for hearing and answering prayer. We love you, father. We give you all the glory and it’s in Jesus’ name we pray. Amen, amen.

I challenge you today. Become a person of prayer, intercede and see what God will do. I’d love to hear from you. If you would like me to pray for you, you can leave me a prayer request or get a praise report. You can email me to do that. My email is mail at jaimeluce.com. You can also go to my website. That’s jaimeluce.com. J-a-i-m-e-l-u-c-e. Thank you so much for taking the time today. I pray it is multiplied back to you in many blessings. We’ll see you next time, bye, bye.