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Our Personal Intercessor, June 8
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen
again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession
for us.
Romans 8:34
.
The Lord Jesus is your personal intercessor.... Repeat over and over many
times through the day, “Jesus has died for me. He saw me in peril, exposed to
destruction, and poured out His life to save me. He does not behold the soul as a
trembling suppliant prostrate at His feet without pity, and He will not fail to raise
me up.” He has become the advocate for man. He has lifted up those who believe
in Him and placed a treasurehouse of blessing at their demand. Men cannot bestow
one blessing upon their fellows, they cannot remove one stain of sin. It is only the
merit and righteousness of Christ that will avail anything, but this is placed to our
account in rich fullness. We may draw upon God every moment. As we turn to
Him, He answers, “Here I am.”
Christ proclaims Himself our Intercessor. He would have us know that He has
graciously engaged to be our Substitute. He places His merit in the golden censer
to offer up with the prayers of His saints, so that the prayers of His dear children
may be mingled with the fragrant merit of Christ as they ascend to the Father in
the cloud of incense.
The Father hears every prayer of His contrite children. The voice of supplica-
tion from the earth unites with the voice of our Intercessor, who pleads in heaven,
whose voice the Father always hears. Let our prayers therefore continually ascend
to God. Let them not come up in the name of any human being, but in the name
of Him who is our Substitute and Surety. Christ has given us His name to use....
Jesus receives and welcomes you as His own friend. He loves you; He
has pledged Himself to open before you all the treasures of His grace for your
appropriation. He says, “At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto
you, that I will pray the Father for you: for the Father himself loveth you, because
ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God” (
John 16:26, 27
).
He virtually says, Make use of My name, and it will be your passport to the heart
of My Father, and to all the riches of His grace.
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