Quotes about Intercession

Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard their voice, and their prayer came into His holy dwelling place in heaven.

let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.

Esther replied, “This is my petition and my request:

Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.

However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.

Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you prosper.

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.