Tricia McCary Rhodes - Intimate Intercession: The Sacred Joy of Praying for Others

Intercession. When I first heard the word, many years back, it conjured otherworldly images: wild-eyed prophets calling down fire, stern-visaged lawgivers cleaving seas, cave-dwelling saints raising the dead. Tricia Rhodes Intimate Intercession shows otherwise: that even ordinary folk like you and me are called to stand in the gap. Whats more, she persuades that intercession is the best path to intimacy with and imitation of Jesus, and that as we walk that path, Jesus more and more invites us to be eyewitnesses to and holy vessels of his redemptive presence in the earth. This is a great book on prayer for the simple reason that it actually makes you want to pray.

Mark Buchanan, Author of The Rest of God
and Your God Is Too Safe

With passion, warmth, and humble transparency, Tricia McCary Rhodes makes intercession accessible to every believer. Whether youve been praying for years, or have only just started, whether you feel good about your progress or think you have a long way to go, whether youre praying with joy and anticipation, or are weary from the battle, Intimate Intercession will free you to relax in the mystery and enjoy the intimacy that comes in relating to God through prayer.

Cynthia Bezek, Editor of Pray!

Although Ive traveled the worldwide prayer movement for over twenty years, Tricias latest gift to the church makes me want to learn how to pray all over again! The writing style is fresh and compelling. The reflections offer both breadth and depth. The insights are profoundly life-changing yet easily applied. But above all, it is Tricias passion for the exaltation of Gods Son, woven into this book in a hundred ways, that stirs me to desire greater intimacy with Christ in His sovereign work in the lives of others. Which is precisely what prayer is all about in the first place!

David Bryant
Founder, PROCLAIM HOPE!
Author, Christ Is All! A Joyful Manifesto
on the Supremacy of Gods Son

2005 Tricia Rhodes.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rhodes, Tricia McCary.
Intimate intercession : the sacred joy of praying for others / Tricia
McCary Rhodes.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8499-0563-X
1. Intercessory prayerChristianity. I. Title.
BV227.R46 2005
248.3'2dc22

2005020421

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This book is dedicated to seven intercessors who are dear to my heart: Carol and Susie my beloved sisters who have prayed from the start, and Angie, Barb, Linda, Lois, and Vickymy faithful Monday morning sister-warriors.