Intercessory Prayer for the restoration of all Israel.
In the Inferno the poet, to lead the reprobate soul to speak to him, promised earthly fame; in Purgatorio there was the offer of intercessory prayer, here in the first Heaven there is only an appeal to the charity which inflames the spirit.
Outer-Purgatory for a period equal to that of their lives upon earth, unless the time be shortened by intercessory prayer.
The reader will not fail to note that the terrace of the slothful is the only circle of Purgatory where there is no request for intercessory prayer and that Dante here never speaks to any of those souls.
Here he pauses, to ask them for that boon of which he is so covetous--intercessory prayer.
Does the thought of giving up intercessoryprayer come to one from any quarter?
What should I do, if I had not the privilege of intercessory prayer for you?
Every Christian ought to think much of intercessory prayer, and practise it greatly.
Nothing is better fitted to enlarge and warm the heart thanintercessory prayer.
O righteous Father," exclaimed Christ in His intercessory prayer, "the world hath not known Thee.
As friends of God they have influence with Him now, even more than during their sojourn on earth, because their intercessory power is one of their glorious prerogatives in heaven.
Our confidence in the intercessory power of the saints is founded on their relation to God and to us.
Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.
Even though intercessory prayer did nothing more than put us who pray in a desirable frame of mind toward those for whom we pray, it would be an exercise of great value.
It would follow, then, that intercessory prayer is not a work of extraordinary merit but a necessary element of devotion.
As already stated, the special work of the widow was intercessory prayer and ministering to the sick.
Of equal necessity intercessory prayer is objective; it has to do wholly with others.
It is really, therefore, a sort of specimen of the praying for us in which He is now engaged, and so is commonly called the intercessory or high-priestly prayer.
Finally, among the fruits of charity is to be reckoned the direct response of brotherly love, expressed especially in intercessory prayer, and in a longing to see those on whom God's grace rests so abundantly.
This revolting spirit is the extreme opposite of the intercessory prayer and brotherly yearning which St. Paul sees in his mind's eye among the saints at Jerusalem.
In the marvelous intercessory prayer of the Lord Jesus, given in the seventeenth of John, we find these expressions, "Sanctify them through Thy truth.
And with this agree the words of our Lord in His intercessory prayer.
Meanwhile, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York had asked their clergy to hold intercessory services on June 26th, and Cardinal Vaughan, for his Church, had given similar orders.
On reaching Buckingham Palace they expressed a wish to sing an intercessory hymn for the King.
A multitude of other churches held intercessory services at home and abroad on this day--notably, perhaps, one arranged by the National Council of Free Churches and held in the City Temple.
Remember His very last words prior to His great intercessory prayer, in which He spoke about keeping those that were given Him in His name.
He Himself prayed, in that great intercessory prayer, 'Father, I will that these whom Thou hast given Me be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory.
Our last conversation, my child, if I remember well, was on theintercessory work of the Lord Jesus.
One particular application to our religious life, of this conviction of the social consciousness of our mutual influence, seems worthy of mention--its bearing upon intercessory prayer.
Is not the recognition of the place and value of intercessory prayer, then, an only just extension of the prime conviction of the social consciousness?
The act in our text, and the wonderful words which follow in the subsequent chapters, crowned by that great intercessory prayer, seem to me to be all explained for us by this first unveiling of His motives.
In this instance we not only see the value of intercessory prayer, but we find God sanctioning it by His own authority.
That is to say, everything is removed which characterizes the Mass as a priestly, sacrificial act, or which recognizes the intercessoryoffice of the saints.
Others, not content with the church doctrine of her intercessory office in heaven, represent her as commanding and controlling her Son, and even as forgiving sins in her own right.
But the hours of the early morning were well spent, especially in meditation and intercessory prayer.
What I hear and see here is quite a new light on intercessory prayer.
It was for this that Jesus poured out His heart in His great intercessory prayer, recorded in John xvii.
When he comes, he arouses suspicions, he stirs up strife, he quenches the spirit of intercessory prayer, he engenders backbitings, and causes separations.
We gather that they were penitential and intercessory prayers offered by the community while going about in procession, fasting and clothed in sackcloth.
In the year 207, when he must have been of a great age, he was appointed to compose a hymn of thanksgiving, sung by maidens, for the victory of the Metaurus and an intercessory hymn to the Aventine Juno.
It is the part of wisdom to keep a note-book, in which names and subjects for intercessory prayer may be jotted down and distributed over the days of the week for use in due rotation.
A final word may be said with regard to a theoretical difficulty which many people feel in connexion with the intercessory and petitionary sides of prayer.
To many people it may be a sufficient practical answer to refer to the example and precept of Christ, who both taught and practised intercessory prayer.
They tell of the intercessory character of the sentiment, and of the ritual character of the worship of the times when they were set up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intercessory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: interlocutory; intermediary; intermediate; intervening; mediating; mediatory; middle
