Castle Rock Young Adults Fellowship

In the last two studies we looked at prayer in two basic types: worship and petition. The third and final type of prayer we will study is intercession.

The first form of prayer we looked at (worship) is an act of prayer that reflects reverence, patience, seeking God’s will, submitting to His will in trust, and admitting our surrender to Him. Psalm 95 - “Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker, for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.”

Worshiping God isn’t work - that’s awesome! We can come before Him in beautiful communion, and rest in His presence (Hebrews 4:3). We can simply stand in wonder of who He is, and just fellowship with our Maker.

The second form of prayer (petition) reflects our pleading, imploring our needs before God. Petitioning may manifest in our seeking God to act or move in the situations and circumstances of our lives.  It also reflects our diligence, and us bringing our continual appeals before the Lord. “Pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17).

Petitioning God for our needs, in general, isn’t too much work because we are so involved in our needs that we can become interested in them very easily! Talking about us isn’t too hard.

Finally, the third form of prayer we will look at is - intercession. This form of prayer may take worship and petition in combination as we come before God worshipfully and plead or intercede on someone else’s behalf.

Interceding requires labor. Paul in his letter to Colosse mentions one of his fellow laborers: “Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.” Here prayer is described as work.

Join us Friday, January 16th for this last study about prayer - Intercession.

If you won’t be able to make, it download the notes! YAG Notes - 1/16/09