Love the children of The Eternal One

Photo credit: Heather Dawn Kemp

 

The Economy of Intercession is Yah’s/God’s provision of grace to meet all the necessities of salvation for our children. It gives parents, grandparents and compassionate friends spiritual tools by which they can take those children before Yah/God and do spiritually before Him what they cannot do:

 

• Children cannot fight spiritual battles for themselves, so we must fight those battles for them.

• Children cannot knowledgeably put the armor of Yah/God on themselves, so we must do it for them.

• Children cannot grasp the meaning of grace and salvation, so we must grasp it in their behalf.

• Children cannot exercise mature faith in complex spiritual matters, though they are involved in such complex matters, so we must exercise our faith in their behalf.

• Children cannot understand the full meaning of covenant relationship, so we must grasp it before Yah/God and claim it for them there.

• Children cannot use the shield of faith to quench the fiery arrows of Satan, so we must use our faith shield to cover them in battle.

• Children cannot knowledgeably claim the mind of The Anointed One/Messiah/Christ operating within theirs, so we must claim His mind operatively in their behalf. (1 Cor. 2:16)

• Children have neither the knowledge of Yah/God’s Word, life experience, nor the trained ability to use Scripture as the Sword of the Spirit against the powers of darkness. So, we must use the sword thrusts of the Word of Yah/God in their behalf, claiming Scriptural/Bible promises, standing on Yah/God’s completed spiritual transactions and affirming spiritual facts.

• Though children can and do pray, sometimes with remarkable results, they cannot pray knowledgeably or with mature perspective regarding spiritual influences and dynamics effecting their lives, or about the choices they make daily. So we must pray those mature prayers for them.

• Children cannot knowledgeably use the other weapons of warfare–praise and thanksgiving, the Name of Hayasha/Jesus, the Blood of the Lamb, the Word of Their Testimony, the Sword of the Spirit, Faith, etc., so we must wield these weapons in their behalf, as we train them in those vital spiritual skills.

            Now it is true that you and I, as praying parents, must develop knowledge and skills in these areas ourselves before we can exercise them in behalf of our children. But can you think of any activity of more eternal value for ourselves than an intimate and growing ability to know Yah/God, a growing knowledge of His heavenly power, as well as the tools He has provided for defeating His enemy?  Think about it: Our loving Heavenly Father has not only prepared these power resources for our use, but has also established a prayer economy by which we can use them to protect and spiritually nurture our children. What a challenge to keep learning all we can about these resources and practice their use for our loved ones!

            All these facts are true for our young children and we can easily see how it must be so for them, because of their immaturity. Yet many of us have grown children . . . children who through life experiences have drifted away from serving the Yah/God they were raised in our Christian homes to serve. Others of our children were raised in our homes before we became Christians, or before we ourselves became spiritually mature, and so we were never able to give them grounding in spiritual things. Now that the Self-Existent One[Lord] has begun a work in our lives, our prevailing burden is that our grown children may experience the same blessing we have in knowing Yah/God. Is there any way we can knowledgeably and rightfully intercede for these grown children and, if so, on what basis? We can praise Yah/God the answer is “Yes!” But it will take effort and commitment to learn those Yah/God-provided ways and develop the skills to apply them effectively.

            As we explore Scriptural answers to these vital questions, we should first examine the conditions under which our grown children either do not, or will not, or cannot relate to Yah/God in a personal spiritual experience. When we stop and think about it, the basic conditions that hold our children away from Yah/God are relatively few:

 

1. Ignorance: Strange as it may seem, children can move through childhood and adolescence without enough personal knowledge of Yah/God to make a clear choice for or against Him. This is understandable with children raised in homes that are not Christian, or, a home that is nominally Christian but in which neither father or mother take Faith or study of Scripture seriously. But, sad to say, ignorance of Yah/God in personal relationship is also quite possible for children raised in earnest Christian homes, gather with the Called Out Ones regularly, attend Christian school or Homeschool. Even such children can remain ignorant of Yah/God personally.

To understand how this can be, we must make a clear difference between “religion” and “spirituality.” The two are not the same. Too often “religion” is the passive following of church or denominational practices, an automatic mental assent and parroting of doctrinal beliefs, without knowing the Yah/God that religion or denomination worships. Quite often the weekly study classes held by churches for children on the day of worship, and even Christian day schools can slip into the practice of training “church members”, rather than focus on introducing each child into personal relationship with Yah/God. This is not intended as criticism or condemnation of any church or Christian school. It is simply recognition of conditions that often exist. Thus, it is possible for a child to grow into adulthood knowing about religion, but not knowing enough about Yah/God personally to make an active, spiritual decision for or against Him.

 

Then, too, we must recognize that children differ in their temperament and personality. There are some children who seem born with spiritual insight, with a natural bent from earliest years toward Yah/God. In these cases, even if the parents and the home atmosphere are secular the child seems to move directly into a close relationship to Yah/God. That relationship may be uninformed and lack background knowledge, but the personal relationship with Yah/God is real and active. Other children seem not to be naturally sensitive to spiritual things. They grow up as “good” healthy children and responsible adults but just do not have much interest in spiritual things until later on in life.

 

In Christian circles, it is customary to say that a child reaches “the age of accountability” around nine years of age.  That is, we judge a child able to make a valid decision for Yah/God about that age. In practice, however, it is not that easy. Some children make decision for relationship with Yah/God as early as three years of age, while others seem unable to grasp enough knowledge to make such a decision until well into adulthood. There are just too many variables to make a snap judgment about any child, whether still young or grown up and well into adult life.

 

Each child should have solid instruction in the meaning of salvation and membership with the Called Out Ones during those awakening years. Yet anyone, who has taught those grades, knows how powerful peer pressure becomes at that age. When your friends are going to be baptized and join the church, this is a powerful influence to do the same things, whether this action represents a deep personal choice for relationship with Yah/God or not.

 

It is easy to confuse a choice for baptism and church membership with a real and active personal relationship with Yah/God. Experience has shown the two are not necessarily the same. Should we then discourage early baptism? In most cases, “No.” Fellowship with other Christians either in a church program or fellowship with Called Out Ones can be a setting in which personal relationship with Yah/God can blossom and grow into a real spiritual experience. However, we must avoid the conclusion that, because a child has “joined” the church they enjoy a personal and active spiritual relationship with Yah/God enabling them to sustain spiritual growth. The seeds may be there, but they must be watered, weeded and protected from predators until they flower and fruit in real relationship with Yah/God. This nurture and care is the spiritual privilege of the Called Out Ones[church] with its children and youth. BUT, the most powerful intercessory privileges and rights belong to the parents!

 

The bottom line is this: Please do not judge that your child has decided permanently against Yah/God, simply because he or she, in spite of Christian training, has slipped into a secular life with “worldly” practices that violate Christian principles. In despair we may say, “What’s the matter with them? That’s not the way I brought them up!” But there is hope! The good news is: we can, as parents and intercessors, approach God in their behalf as if they do not possess enough direct, personal knowledge of Yah/God to make an informed decision about relationship to Him. We can represent them before Him and invite Him into their lives.

 

2. Bitterness: Children often go through experiences that build a background of bitterness in them which they connect with religion–and then transfer to the Yah/God the religion represents. These embittering experiences can take place in the home, especially in homes in which one parent is not a Christian and opposes religion. It can also happen in a home in which the parents are hyper-religious and make religion such a harsh, burdensome and oppressive experience that the child becomes bitter and determines never to have anything to do with religion or its Yah/God.

Often, however, these embittering experiences often take place outside the home. They may occur in church or Christian school environments. They usually deal with discipline, requirements, peer pressure, influence or abuse from fellow students. They can also rise from attitudes which the child feels are “unfair,” “stupid,” demeaning or rejecting of them as a person. Even if the people causing the bitter experience are ignorant of the effect they are causing, the child “perceives” their actions to be negative, to represent religion and reacts with bitterness.

 

This bitterness is carefully cultivated by Yah/God’s enemy and he builds it up to the place that the person literally becomes blind to spiritual things. Since Yah/God holds individual choice to be sacred, He will not coerce or force spiritual choice. Bitterness can block the adolescent or adult child’s openness to Yah/God and close off Yah/God’s access to the child. But, in the economy of intercession, the praying parent can keep the adolescent or adult child before Yah/God in prayer and invite Him into the life!

 

Let’s be clear here! This intercessory invitation of Yah/God into an adolescent or adult child’s life does not override that child’s will or right to choose. It simply gives Yah/God the right of access to an otherwise closed mind and heart, in order to build a clear picture of Himself and His love, in order that the child may have a real choice–the ability to see Yah/God as He is and Satan’s kingdom as it is. I don’t know about you, but I have confidence that, if my grown children can be given a clear, informed choice between either Yah/God or Satan, they will choose Yah/God and enjoy a personal relationship with Him. Through intercession, I have the privilege of giving Yah/God access to their life to produce this marvelous choice situation. I can do this through consistent and earnest intercessory prayer.

 

3. A Blinded Mind: Again, the enemy of souls can confuse thinking through false philosophy, “scientific” thinking, or non-Christian religious beliefs. The Bible says that Satan, as “. . . the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of The Anointed One/Messiah/Christ, who is the image of Yah/God, should shine unto them” (2 Cor. 4:4) Since they are blinded by Yah/God’s enemy, they are not able to see Yah/God clearly enough to make an informed choice, a true choice, about relationship to Him. Paul speaks further of such people as being taken in “. . . the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.” (2 Tim. 2:26).

But there is hope for such spiritual blind ones. We have Yah/God’s promise: “Even the captives of the might shall be taken away and prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children” (Isa. 49:25)[Emphasis supplied.]. As in the case of bitterness, Yah/God honors the person’s right to choose and will not enter without invitation. Since these blinded ones cannot make the invitation, the dynamics of intercession allow us to go before the throne of Yah/God, sponsor them there and invite Him in. Given intercessory access, Yah/God can then set up the conditions for a clear choice.

 

4. Illness: A condition of illness can block the person’s ability to understand and think clearly. In this way, the person’s ability to pray, to invite Yah/God into their life, or to make a clear choice is block, or at least highly impaired. This illness can be physical sickness which lowers the energy, confuses the mind or causes pain that blocks out ability to perceive or respond spiritually. The illness can be mental or emotional, accomplishing the same blocking action. Or, the illness can be spiritual, creating barriers between the person and Yah/God. Serious injury through accident, can set up a situation which keeps the person from making a clear, informed choice or from responding to the presence of Yah/God’s Spirit.

Again, the dynamic Yah/God has established in intercessory prayer gives us the right to represent these wounded and ill people before Him, invite Him into their lives and give Him access to touch their lives–both for healing and for entering into a personal relationship with Him.

 

5. Distraction: Yah/God’s enemy works in many ways. For many in this world, the enemy blocks spiritual response in people through sheer distraction. Have you noticed that some of our adult children seem to live in constant state of crisis? They just get one emergency cleared up when another one strikes them. The problems may be financial, sickness, fire, loss of job, trouble between husband and wife, conflict with children, legal problems, etc. The list could go on and on.

The truth is that when we live in constant crisis our attention is so occupied that we cannot make a clear decision for relationship with Yah/God. Even though we as parents see that many of these crises would vanish and the stress factors would melt like ice in the summer sun, to these people in crisis this is foreign language. They don’t have time to listen, to pray, to study Yah/God’s Word. They are more liable to seek secular professional counseling help than to go to God for help, or to use alcohol or drugs to relieve stress. Yah/God’s enemy keeps them facing repeated emergencies that prevent them from seeking Yah/God.

 

You and I as parents have the privilege of opposing the evil forces that are bringing and sustaining these problems and of inviting Yah/God into their lives to solve the crisis and give them a clear understanding of the resources He offers them. This is the privilege of intercession.

 

Understanding this, we can see that growth from childhood, to adolescence, to adulthood is not the only factor involved in spiritual choice for relationship with Yah/God. One can be physically mature, intellectually active and socially responsible, yet be faced with conditions that prevent an informed and open choice for Yah/God.  With this in mind, let us look over the original list facts about children and God again–this time with our adult children in mind.

 

1. Children cannot fight spiritual battles for themselves, so we must fight those battles for them: Though especially true for little children, this is also true for our adolescent and adult children. Any of the conditions that we have listed can make them defenseless in spiritual battles. As intercessors we can fight these battles in their behalf, until they have grown enough in personal relationship with Yah/God to fight such battle for themselves.

2. Children cannot knowledgeably put the Armor of Yah/God on themselves, so we must do it for them. Again, this is true for adult children who are outside a personal relationship with Yah/God. Intercessorily we can keep the Armor of Yah/God around them daily. Go to Ephesians 6. Look at the Armor of Yah/God and start praying this armor around your children each day. Watch the results.

3. Children cannot grasp the meaning of grace and salvation, so we must grasp it in their behalf: If we possess a knowledge of Yah/God’s grace and live in personal relationship with Him, Yah/God has ordained that, as parents of small or adult children, we can put the umbrella of our relationship with Yah/God over our children until they come to the same knowledge and act spiritually for themselves in an effective way.

4. Children cannot exercise mature faith in complex spiritual matters, though our society involves them in such complex matters, so we must exercise our faith in their behalf: This is a little harder to understand for our adult children. However, think of it this way. Many spiritual gifts, powers and advantages rise from faith and faith alone. Yet, even our adult children may be weak in faith. The principles of intercession allow us to put our faith along side their feeble faith and Yah/God accepts our faith in their behalf. Remember, however, this is a temporary, emergency matter. The goal is to give Yah/God full access to their lives so they can learn to grow in faith and lay hold on Yah/God for themselves.

Consider this insight into parental priesthood and its possibilities: The father is, in one sense the priest of the household, bringing to the altar of Yah/God the confession of missing the mark/sin. The wife and the children should be encouraged to unite in this offering and also to engage in the song of praise. Morning and evening the father, as priest of the household, should confess to Yah/God the sins committed by himself and his children through the day. Those sins which have come to his knowledge and also those which are secret, of which Yah/God’s eye alone has taken cognizance, should be confessed. This rule of action zealously carried out by the father when he is present or by the mother when he is absent, will result in blessings to the family.

 

Since this is true for the parental priesthood, both of father and of mother, when the children are young, it must also be a valid intercessory dynamic for our adult children who have become blinded by bitterness, hurt, emotional stress or preoccupation with a lifestyle which blocks Yah/God from full access to their lives.  Confess their sins? Yes, we have the most reliable witnesses to the validity of this practice: The great, Scriptural/biblical, master intercessors, to a man, confessed the sins of the people they were praying for. Our Supreme Ruler Hayasha/Lord Jesus and Stephen who copied Him, prayed, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”  These examples give us full grounds for the confession of our adult children’s sins before Yah/God, even if we do not fully understand the inner workings of salvation which make it possible.

 

You and I understand that the final forgiveness transaction for their sins will take place  personally between those we pray for and Yah/God. We also know that, when they are not in personal relationship to Yah/God, their sins block His access to them. So, you and I go to Him, sponsoring our loved ones before His throne, where they cannot yet come for themselves. We bring their rebellion and ignorance to Him and confess that they are sin. We then invite Him to enter their lives and provide them a true choice.  That invitation gives Him continued access to their lives and allows the full influence of His Spirit to work there.

 

You will also find this a helpful dynamic for your Christian teenagers and adult children. Even the strongest of us have times of faltering and discouragement. At such times, other Christians, especially parents or other family members, can wind their faith around us and help us remain strong until our dark time disappears. This, too, is an intercessory privilege.

 

5. Children cannot understand the full meaning of covenant relationship, so we must grasp it before Yah/God and claim it for them there: The story of the Everlasting Covenant is a beautiful one, but too extensive to treat here. However, the blood covenant that Yah/God made with Abraham was covenant of blessing. It was a “family” covenant (Gen. 12:1-3). That is, the covenant was designed to bless not only adult covenant partners, but also their families through succeeding generations. Yah/God made that covenant binding not only on Abraham, but also on all his descendants through all generations. “If you are Christ’s/Hayasha’s/The Savior’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise” (Gal. 3:29). When you enter into a covenant relationship with Yah/God, that covenant is designed to apply to your children too, whether they are young or adult.

The covenant that Yah/God made with Abraham was a blood covenant–the most binding and solemn covenant it was possible to make. A blood covenant was always a binding covenant–it bound not only the original covenant partners, but it also bound their children to carry out the terms of the covenant agreement. Yah/God agreed to bless and prosper Abraham and his seed. Abraham agreed to follow Yah/God’s pathway. Yah/God made His commitment to this covenant and has never turned back from it. It was this same covenant that Hayasha/Yahusha/Jesus sealed for both Yah/God and man on the cross with His own blood. It cannot be changed. When it was sealed, it became the New Covenant—His personal covenant for life transformation sealed in blood for you and for your children.

 

Remember, this is a family covenant. When you become a conscious, active covenant partner with Yah/God, you can claim your children and grandchildren under that covenant. Even if they are blinded and not enjoying a personal relationship with Yah/God, they are still your children and you are a covenant partner of Yah/God. You have been given the covenant right to claim your children under that covenant. After all, Hayasha/Jesus shed His covenant sealing blood for your children as well as for you. Feel confident, therefore, in claiming His covenant blessings on your children.

 

“But,” I can hear someone say, “What if my child has openly said he/she rejects Yah/God and want to have nothing to do with religion, spirituality or Yah/God? What if my child has fallen into darkness and is practicing a life style that denies Yah/God and repudiates Him? What right do I have to pray against these choices?” Let me answer this by asking another question. What right do you have to determine that their present choice is their final choice? How would we know if they are merely blinded. Our Intercessor The Anointed one/Messiah/Christ cast demons out of those who were possessed and made intercession while being crucified and asked “Forgive them for they KNOW NOT what they do”.   

 

You don’t have to live very long as a Christian/Believer to see marvelous changes in lives that have been almost destroyed by sin. People fallen into gross immorality wonderfully transformed and living pure productive lives . . . shattered lives, almost totally corrupted by drugs, alcohol and their kindred depravity, turned around in instant, transformation . . . violent criminals turned into productive citizens–distorted lives become transfigured Christians. When such life changing can take place under His redeeming power, none of us have the wisdom to write anyone off anyone and consider them lost to Yah/God’s kingdom.

 

You and I have not been given the right of judgment of others, even over our own children. We must not confuse our personal disappointment with our children’s choices with Yah/God’s attitude toward them. Only the God of Love and His Son who died for your children has the right of judgment. Our right is the right to judge our children’s possibilities by Yah/God’s grace and mercy. Our intercessory prayers are to be based on that grace and mercy. We have no right to decide that any person is hopeless and beyond Yah/God’s grace. Instead we pray with confidence under the principles of intercession, with confidence anticipating life miracles, in spite of the worldly lifestyles we may observe and deplore in our children. 

 

6. Children cannot use the shield of faith to quench the fiery arrows of Satan, so we must use our shield to cover them in battle: The Shield of Faith in Ephesians 6 is designed to protect us from the fiery arrows of Yah/God’s enemy. These arrows are the life circumstances the enemy produces to keep us distracted, to hurt us, make us ill, keep us in economic bondage, etc. If I and my son were fighting in some ancient battle and I saw my son wounded and overcome, I would certainly have the right to stand by his side and hold my own shield over him to protect him from the enemy’s arrows until help would come.  In the same way, I can extend my faith around my children, even as adults, and ask Yah/God to protect them from the enemy’s actions. This is an intercessory right.

7. Children cannot knowledgeably claim the mind of The Anointed One/ Messiah/Christ operating within theirs, so we must claim His mind operatively in their behalf: It takes great wisdom to survive in today’s society. As Christians, you and I have access to the Mind of The Anointed One/Messiah/ Christ, if we choose to open ourselves to it (1 Cor. 2:16; Phil. 2:5). If our adult children, lacking that personal relationship to Yah/God, do not know how to gain access to Messiah/Christ’s wisdom, His values, His life priorities, His will power, His commitment—then we can ask Him to aid them in their crucial life decisions. We can invite His mind to be active in theirs.  This is an intercessory opportunity and right.

8. Children have not the knowledge of Yah/God’s Word or the trained ability to use Scripture as the Sword of the Spirit against the powers of darkness: By now the pattern should be clear. The Word of Yah/God is our primary source of personal power. Devotional Bible study day by day is crucial to our spiritual survival. In the same way, the ability to use the Word of Yah/God as the Sword of the Spirit against the enemy is vital to our personal victories. You and I know that, but our adult children may not be aware of that at the present moment.

If I have the right to use my shield of faith to protect my sin-wounded children, certainly I have the right to use the Word of Yah/God as the Sword of the Spirit in their behalf, too. So we must use the sword thrusts of the Word of God in their behalf, claiming Bible promises, standing on Yah/God’s completed spiritual transactions and affirming spiritual facts. We look forward to the time when they will be able to stand by our sides in battle, using the Word of God strongly and skillfully. But for now, we can wield the Word of Yah/God against the enemy in the battles we see them fighting.

 

1. Though children can pray, sometimes with remarkable results, they cannot pray knowledgeably and with mature perspective: We easily understand this with our young children. They simply have not had the life experience necessary always to pray effectively, because they lack knowledge regarding spiritual influences and dynamics affecting their lives. Yet, as we have seen, the same thing can also be true with our adult children. It is very easy to confuse physical and chronological age with spiritual and emotional maturity. They simply are not the same. Our adult children can lack prayer maturity. So, as with smaller children, we must pray those more mature prayers for them and in their behalf until they are grown enough in the Lord to pray responsibly for themselves. This, too, is one of the wonder privileges of intercession.

10. Children cannot knowledgeably use the other weapons of warfare: In 2 Cor. 10:4,5 inspiration speaks of multiple weapons of spiritual battle against the attacks of Yah/God’s enemy on our lives. Some of these weapons are: praise and thanksgiving; the Name of Jesus/Hayasha; the Blood of the Lamb; the Word of Our Testimony, the Sword of the Spirit, Faith, etc. We cannot explain the nature and use of these weapons here, but the Word of Yah/God will clearly show you how to use them, if you will search out what the Bible says about them.  If our adult children lack this knowledge, there are clear dynamics in intercession that allow us to learn how to use them and use them intercessorily in their behalf.

            Now I recognize that many of these intercessory rights are new to you. But I do want you to realize Yah/God has placed them at your disposal and that you can use them in behalf of your children or grandchildren, both when they are little and when they are adults. As a parent you have special and primary blood rights to bring your children, at whatever age, before the Self-Existent Supreme Ruler [Lord]. They carry your genes and blood in their veins. Even, however, if they were adopted, you have special throne rights through Jesus’ blood shed for them. Partner with the Lord Jesus and apply that shed blood in behalf of your children.

            That same right applies to husbands and wives praying for each other. “These two are one” (See Gen. 2:24). You have the same right to pray for your mate that you have to pray for yourself–even if your mate rejects religion and God. And you have the same right to expect Yah/God to answer.

            I hope this sketch of some of the intercessory prayer privileges we have been given in praying for our children has been helpful. I know that it leaves much “how-to” explanation still lacking. However, I have found that just to realize I have the rights and privileges is enough to set my mind and heart on the track of “how-to.”

            Don’t wait for further understanding. Just begin to pray, using these privileges. Be persistent in praying for your children, both young and adult. After all, these conditions you are praying against and for did not happen overnight. Sometimes they took years, even decades, to develop. It may take considerable time for Yah/God to offset the habits and thoughts of years.

            Please remember, Yah/God’s Spirit always works on lives from the inside outward, from the center to the circumference of the life. The signs of life change and relationship to Yah/God that you desire so much in your children, both small and adult, will be the final signs you will see as the work of The Pure Set-Apart Breath [Holy Spirit] reaches the outer portions of life where you can observe its work. Do not be discouraged. Keep studying intercessory prayer. Keep praying intercessory prayers day by day for your loved ones.

            Remember, also, that Hayasha[Jesus] The Anointed One -Christ is our Mediator and High Priest. He is the chief Intercessor: “Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them” (Heb. 7:25) His prayers are perfect intercessory prayers. But Yah/God has established an economy of redemption that requires human partnership to activate His will on earth and give Him access to human lives.

            You and I are co-intercessors with Hayasha[Jesus] The Anointed One -Christ. He prays in heaven the perfect intercessory prayers. You and I pray our intercessory prayers on earth, however earnest yet clumsy they may be. Every valid intercessory prayer you pray is simply an echo of His prayers in heaven. But that echo, that endorsing, earth-agreement, is essential for His intercession to be given access to your children and begin the life changing work you so desire for them. Your prayers are essential in the process of God/Yah’s redemption.

            What a joyful and awesome privilege is ours. We pray as prayer partners with our Supreme Savior for our own children. This agreement between earth and heaven starts the unfolding of the very miracles of life change we seek.

 What a privilege intercessory prayer is!

 Keep on interceding, child of God, keep on interceding!

  For everyone who has been born of The Eternal One overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—even our faith.

1 John 5:1-4

Faith is the Victory!

*The above text has been edited by me and taken from excerpts of the writings of Dr. Winston Ferris with whom I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know by working with him on a telephone prayer line. I was requested to record those prayer-line phone calls which always began with Dr. Ferris speaking to the group.