Seek Guidance in Prayer

The work of prayerful intercession can be quite confounding.  Have the prayerful needs of the person involved come about as a result of Satan’s desire to destroy them or have the needs come as a direct result of God’s rebuke in the person’s life?

Before praying for anyone, it is important that we pray first for guidance for ourselves.  We must consider the fact that our prayers could actually be working against the plan that God has for the individual’s life, if our prayers are not in alignment with the work of the Holy Spirit.  God’s interest in the individual is more important that our sympathy for their condition.