The first chapter of my book: Intercession.

1. Intercession: The key
to the next move of
God
KAYODE CROWN

2. Copyright © 2013 Kayode Crown
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 1494343436
ISBN-13: 978-1494343439

3. DEDICATION
To intercessors and intending intercessors around the world

5. CONTENTS
Foreword
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INTRODUCTION: GOD‟S SOVEREIGNTY AND PARTNERSHIP
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WHAT IS A MOVE OF GOD?
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INTERCESSION IS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NEXT MOVE OF
GOD
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PUTTING YOUR MIND TO INTERCESSION
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TOOLS OF INTERCESSION
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THE PRACTICE OF INTERCESSION
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APPENDIX: HOW TO BE BORN AGAIN
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7. FOREWORD
Welcome to this training manual on intercession. You will be presented
with all the possible angles to this sacred activity. It is to inform the mind
and to spur you into a higher level of activity when it comes to intercessory
prayer.
This book is meant to change you, not just in what you know, but in
what you do, i.e. how you practice intercession. You may need to come
back to it again, as a form of refresher course on the all-important spiritual
activity.
You have in your hands what should give you a spiritual impetus. I
believe that as soon as you peruse the book, it will be like a burst of light in
your spirit. So that at the end of your journey through it, you will come out
as the intercessor God wants you to be.
Olukayode Crown
Bible teacher
Crown Teaching Ministry
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INTRODUCTION
GOD‟S SOVEREIGNTY AND PARTNERSHIP
Yes, God is sovereign, he does whatever he likes. King Nebuchadnezzar
acknowledged that fact after his experience of God, saying: “all the
inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to
his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth;
and none can stay his hand or say to him, „What have you done (Dan
4:35)?‟”
And when Job was also confronted with the reality of God, he said: "I
know that you (God) can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be
thwarted (Job 42:2).”
The above scriptures are definitely true, and a deeper look at them
would reveal certain salient truths. From the words of King
Nebuchadnezzar, we can glean at least two things: God has a will that
dictates his action; God has a hand that defines his ability.
From Job, we learn at least one thing: God has no limit
As valid as all those points are, there is another side to God‟s “will,
ability and limitlessness” on the earth. And that side was revealed when he
made Man, and decided to devolve dominion on the earth to him, and
introduced another dimension to himself, which is partnership.
When God made man, he said to him: “Be fruitful and multiply and fill
the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and
over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the
earth (Gen 1:26-28)."
God set out to create man in his own image. And since he has a will,
ability and is unlimited, man in the image of God must exhibit the same
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We know man has a will, and has means to achieve his purposes even
now, but we are yet to see man as being limitless, that is, fully like God.
The writer of the Book of Hebrews noted: “It has been testified
somewhere, „What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man,
that you care for him? You made him for a little while lower than the
angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor, putting everything in
subjection under his feet.‟
“Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside
his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.
“But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels,
namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of
death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone (Heb
2:6-9).”
Man, we have seen in the foregoing, was designed to rule over all, but
the writer of Hebrews considered that has not been the case, revealing what
Jesus did about it.
As the bridge between the intention of God and its realisation, we were
told in the above passage that Jesus is crowned with glory and honour after
tasting death. Not only that but in another place, after he resurrected, Jesus
said that all power has been invested in him, and by extension in his name,
by God (Matt. 28:18).
God is limitless, and shared that same attribute with man at creation, but
man fell short of the glory of God in sin (Romans 3:23), i.e. he fell short of
the ultimate manifestation of the glory of God. Now, Jesus is the revelation
of that ultimate possibility of God, being without limit, and Christians share
that reality through his person and name.
That same thought was revealed by Paul in his letter to the Church in
Philippi.
He told them: “Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality
with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a
servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a
man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the
death of the cross.”
“Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name
which is above every name; that in the name of Jesus every knee should
bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth,
and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory
of God the Father (Php 2:5-11).”
The same glory lost by man because of sin, is restored in Christ, and the
glory is expressed in the use of the name of Jesus. Christians have identified
with Christ in his death and resurrection, we have become sons of God
(John 1:12), the same title that was first borne by the first Adam, because of
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the pristine state he was in (Luke 3:38).
The logic therefore is that as we use the name of Jesus in intercession,
representing his will, we move his hand and unleash his limitlessness,
swallowing up our own limitations.
By creating man in His own image, He shares His sovereignty with man.
In other words, there is a partnership arrangement, and heaven
synchronises with the earth to move things; that is the essence of prayer;
that is the essence of intercession.
The dominion of God that shared with man finds ultimate fulfilment in
Christ and his brothers and sisters (Acts 3:6) which we become as
Christians.
In the ultimate sense, there is only one God, but when he created man,
in the relative sense, He set out to create many “gods”, since the image of
God has to be God, at least in a relative sense.
“I said, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; (Psa
82:6).”
The above statement by the Psalmist was quoted by Jesus (John 10:34)
when he defended his statement that he was the Son of God. What that
means is that all sons of God are gods, aligning with the train of thought we
have been on till now.
As previously explained, ordinary man cannot claim such privilege. But
Christians are so privileged to be limitless by the use of the name of Jesus.
“And Jesus came and said to them, „All authority in heaven and on
earth has been given to me (Matthew 28:18).‟”
The reason the name of Jesus conveys the limitlessness of God is
revealed in the verse above. Therefore with Jesus, there is the realisation of
the partnership intention of God for man to achieve dominion on the earth.
So if man refuses to use the name of Jesus what happens? Nothing! No
dominion is expressed; the authority of Jesus is not deployed.
But you ask: “what about the sovereignty of God and the bible verse
that says: what will be will be?” First, there is no such verse in the bible and
if from the foregoing, it is clear that with God‟s creation of man, He puts a
certain limitation on Himself as God. God by his sovereignty has decided
that man would share that sovereignty with him.
The partnership factor shows that the next move of God is linked to
prayer; because when man prays, he wills the will of God, as he links with
the limitlessness of God, and by so doing become limitless, exercising
“Godness” in the name of Jesus.
A type of prayer is intercession, which is the focus of this book.
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