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January '03
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
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February '03
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
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March '03
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13

April '03
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Week 17

May '03
Week 18
Week 19
Week 20
Week 21
Week 22

June '03
Week 23
Week 24
Week 25
Week 26

July '03
Week 27
Week 28
Week 29
Week 30
Week 31

August '03
Week 32
Week 33
Week 34
Week 35

September '03
Week 36
Week 37
Week 38
Week 39

October '03
Week 40
Week 41
Week 42
Week 43
Week 44

November '03
Week 45
Week 46
Week 47
Week 48

December '03
Week 49
Week 50
Week 51
Week 52

Key Passage: Exodus 33:1-3, 12-15

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Depart and go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’ And I will send My Angel before you, … for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”

Then Moses said to the LORD, … "Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.” And He said, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then he said to Him, "If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.”

The ministry of intercession is a special ministry in the body of Christ. It is the ministry for those who would stand in the gap between God and mankind and bring to bear the mercy, the love and the power of God upon man. In a world like ours, full of evil, immorality, corruption, wickedness, and every imaginable vice, we need men and women who would touch the heart of God and provoke His mercy upon mankind.

Moses was an example of an intercessor per excellence. He successfully led millions of slaves out of captivity. The Israelites proved themselves to be a most difficult people to lead, but Moses successfully led them for forty years. His secret was that He had the heart of a true intercessor. He knew God’s ways and His desire for His people. He had deep love for the people he was leading, though they were stubborn and unruly. He was also faithful to God and persistent in his ministry, and was ready to pay the dearest price to bring the people to their promised land.

When Israel made and worshipped the golden calf, God wanted to destroy them but Moses interceded for them (Ex 32:9-14). When he realized the magnitude of their sin, he readily returned to God and presented himself as the atonement for Israel’s sin (Ex 32:31). When God said He would no longer go among them because of that sin, Moses’ response was like, “Lord, we started this whole business together, and you promised to always stick with me (Ex 3:12). It will not be fair to live me alone at this point in this mission. In short, Lord, if you quit, I quit.” That act of faithfulness and persistence constrained God to change His mind and return to be with Israel.

How often we are constrained by our circumstances to go on our mission without the presence of God, but here was a man who would not go unless God went with him. We need to ask God for the kind of heart that Moses had. The kind of heart that is so possessed with the desire of God for mankind that we will be ready to lay down all that it takes to provoke His mercy for man.

 

Written by – Evangelist Oguazi Onyemobi

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