the elders, and His parents were franticallysearching for Him. He continued to grow and went through everything man goes through. 5He became a man and His intercession went to greater depths. When He wouldpray it would be like no other time anyone has gone through before. He would stay up allnight sometimes just interceding for all mankind, and once He interceded so much that Hebegan to sweat blood.Jesus was man’s perfect example of identification. The things He asks of mancould not even compare to what He in coming down in the form of a man. Whatever heasks of man to give up is like a speck of dust to what He did when He gave up His placein heaven to come down and intercede for us.God also will never ask us to do anything that we are not able to do. If we do nothave the faith to see it come through than God will not give us that to intercede for. Itdoes not give Him pleasure to see us suffer, that is why He sent us His Son so we did nothave to go through and be bogged down by things of the world. He only wants what isbest for us, but the only way we can attain that is by listening, laying down, and identifyingwith the individual or nation. Each intercession builds on the next. We must first do the small things before wecan accomplish the bigger things, because if God were to give us the bigger intercessionsfirst than we would be so overwhelmed by it. This why God only tells us one thing at atime in our calling or in the intercession because if He were to tell us all that it was toinvolve at the beginning than we would lose hope at that very point.He may ask man to give up certain things but He knows he can handle it. Therefore anything that He asks man to give away, do, or even where He asks us to live during the intercession will not be too much for him for as it says in Philippians 4:13, “Ican do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”7The second portion of an intercessors life is agony. Agony i...
