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| Five loaves and two fish |
We are distributors for God not producers. We don't have to produce anything-reconciliation, deliverance, victory, etc.-but rather we distribute, as the disciples did with the loaves and fishes (see Matthew 14:17-19).
Our calling and function is not to replace God, but to release Him.
* The Producer simply wants to distribute through us.
* The Intercessor wants to intercede through us.
* The Mediator wants to mediate through us.
* The Representative wants to represent through us.
* The Go-between wants to go between through us.
* The Victor wants His victory enforced through us.
* The Minister of reconciliation has given to us the ministry of reconciliation (see 2 Cor. 5:18, 19). We now represent Him in His representation ministry. God continues to incarnate His redemptive purposes in human lives.
The work is already done. Reconciliation is complete. Deliverance and victory are complete. Salvation is complete. Intercession is complete!
Finished...Done...WOW!
Intercessory prayer is an extension of the ministry of Jesus through His Body, the Church, whereby we mediate between God and humanity for the purpose of reconciling the world to Him, or between Satan and humanity for the purpose of enforcing the victory of Calvary.
Christ needs a human on the earth to represent Himself through just as the Father did. The Father's human was Jesus; Jesus' humans are us, the Church. He said, "As the Father has sent Me, I also send you" (John 20:21).
Shalom,
Rev. Obadiah Swen
Pastor, Bethel World Outreach Church - Virginia
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