When Interceding For Women on Death Row- Think of Prophet Jonah

Intercession:

As a people who stand in the gap for individuals, situations and nations, we need to see people the way God sees them. We need to let go of our personal opinions and ideas about things. This is what happened in the bible with the prophet Jonah. God sent Jonah on a mission to Nineveh. Specifically, God wanted Jonah to go to Nineveh to cry out against the sin of the people and to preach. Even though though the Ninevites walked in wickedness God wanted them to know his love and he wanted to give them a chance to repent.

But Jonah disregarded the Lord’s request and got on a ship headed for Tarshish, instead he was fleeing from God (Jonah 1:3) Running from his assignment made Jonah end up being thrown overboard and eaten up by a fish. While inside the fish he repented and God had the fish spit him out. Later Jonah tells the Ninevites about God and interceded for them. Nineveh repented and God had mercy on them. This made Jonah very angry. Jonah wanted to see the wrath of God express on Nineveh, but God had compassion and mercy and wanted to save them.

Jonah more than likely believed lies about Nineveh, himself and God and this what caused him to miss his calling to be used as a vessel of hope,love and life. He knew God was s

low to anger and full of love which is why he fled to Tarshish. (Jonah 4:2) But what Jonah knew about God did

not line up with what he wanted to see happen to the Ninevites.

When God commissions us we are not to let our personal feelings impact on what we are being sent to do. We need to be firm and stable in our connection with God and other people. This is important, so that we can pray without letting our own problems derail us from the purposes and plan of God

Unless we allow God to renew our minds we about our own personal identity we are likely to have thoughts from our own thoughts and mind. Isaiah 55 v 8-9 says, “For your thoughts are not my thoughts, nor your ways my ways, declares the LORD, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Until we have allowed the Holy Spirit to change our thinking, we will have poor results!

David Kills Uriah

Reproches de Nathân à David, David pénitent

I want you to take a little time to listen to a biblical account from the life of King David. In order to appreciate this story you much have a little knowledge. For example, Do you know what a “mighty man is?” The mighty men were men of skill. The biblical book of 1 Chronicles 12 v 1-2 it says: “ Now these are the ones who came to David at Ziklag while he was still shut up because of Saul, the son of Kish. And they were the mighty warriors helping with the war. 2 They were armed with the bow, able to shoot right-handed or left-handed, slinging stones or shooting arrows with the bow” and then it goes on further to describe them in verse 8, later in this same chapter:” …they were valiant mighty warriors, soldiers fit for war, expert with shield and spear, who defected to David at the fortress toward the wilderness. And they had faces like lions[e] and were swift as gazelles upon the mountains.” According to the scripture the mighty men are men who gave David support with all of Israel, as the LORD himself had promised.

I am moved to tears whenever I think of the story: Uriah the Hittite , the husband of Bathsheba, one of David’s mighty men, murdered by order of King David It was a premeditated scheme. After King David has an adulterous affair with the wife of Uriah, he impregnates her and then orders his men to place Uriah on the front lines and to retreat when the battle engaged. It was his plan to have Uriah killed on the front lines so that He keep his wife.

God knew about him, don’t think He didn’t. In 2 Samuel 12 v 1-6, it clearly states “ 1Then the LORD sent the Prophet Nathan to David. And he came to him and said, “There were two men in one city, the one rich and the other poor. 2″The rich man had a great many flocks and herds. 3″But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb Which he bought and nourished; And it grew up together with him and his children. It would eat of his bread and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom, And was like a daughter to him “Now a traveler came to the rich man, And he was unwilling to take from his own flock or his own herd, To prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him; Rather he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.” 5Then David’s anger burned greatly against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, surely the man who has done this deserves to die. 6″He must make restitution for the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and had no compassion.”… Does David even know about compassion?

God gave the Nathan the Prophet a parable and after sharing it with David, He became incensed with judgment. Totally oblivious He was unaware that He was the one that God was referencing. It was then that Nathan the Prophet who had been sent by God says to David… v.7, “You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘It is I who anointed you king over Israel and it is I who delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8I also gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you many more things like these! 9’Why have you despised the word of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.…”

What does God do? Here is what He has Nathan tell David, in 2 Samuel 12 v 10’Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.‘ 11″Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. 12’Indeed you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and under the sun.'”

Immediately, David realizes that the evil that he orchestrated is no longer a secret, David responds to Nathan in verse 14, “I have sinned against the LORD.” And Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has taken away your sin; you shall not die.”

When someone commits a murder, they sin against God. If we were to measure David by our standards, David would have been a candidate for execution on today’s death row. We disrespect God when we decide that our sovereign God needs our help to execute judgment and punishment. What we have to realize is that Gods ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. All power and judgment belongs to Him. Romans 12 v 19 says, “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. It is never our job to avenge.

Wrap your mind around John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Thus God knew our righteousness was as filthy rags and we had no “power” over evil until Jesus came and destroyed the power of Satan. In 1 John 3 v 6 it says this: 5You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. 6No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins, has seen Him or knows Him. The point we need to understand is that a murderer is a person who sins, and no one who sins, has seen or knows the Lord. Verse 8 says, “ He that committed sin is of the devil for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”

It is up to those who abide in him and his word to stand in the gap and pray for the salvation of those that have committed murder. Because the bible says that (the enemy) “the thief cometh not, but for to steal , and to kill , and to destroy : I (Jesus)am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

The Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.1 John 4:4 Jesus showed His great power over evil when He rose from the dead. He died on the cross to set us free from sin’s power over us.

The Living Water: Jesus

Jesus said to the Samaritan woman at the well` “Will you give me a drink?”(John 4 v7)

John 4 v 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” In verse 10 Jesus responds, ¹⁰ Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” And the rest of the conversation goes like this: ¹¹ “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? ¹² Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”¹³ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

Brethren, the water that I am bringing to the women on death row today is the LIVING WATER. I am praying that everyone who drinks  of this water will never thirst again and that the water will become in every death row inmate a spring of water welling up to eternal life and that they like me, will never ever thirst again, in the mighty name of Jesus.