A word from Oswald.

"You cannot truly intercede through prayer if you do not believe in the reality of redemption...True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance...People describe intercession by saying, 'It is putting yourself in someone else's place.' That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God's place; it is having His mind and His perspective."

-Oswald Chambers

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Being a vessel or a tool for a person that God has put into our lives requires us to see them and their circumstances as God sees them.

To be useful to the Kingdom, we NEED to have the mind of Christ.

How else can we be certain that we are living out of truth?

To have the mind of Jesus means spending time getting to know Him. It means reading His word and getting to know His story. It means watching His life on earth and how he interacted with God, people, and situations.

And it requires a lot of listening. Jesus prayed often while on this earth, and we must do the same. God longs to speak to us and use us, just as he used Jesus, our Rabbi.

So let us say, "Here we are, send us."

Let us listen.

Let us intercede.

Let us see and do as our Rabbi does.

Let us carry on this mission.