Julie Posted March 30, 2011 Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 Q3. (Exodus 32:11-13, 30-35; 33:12-17) Why is interceding for the people so important in Moses' ministry? For Moses is interceding for Gods people Why is this such an important role for pastors and lay leaders today? This is your flock or people tht you are looking out for. To intercede effectively before God, why must we know both his character and his promises?? We have to have a relationship with God an upfront one and in order for this to be possible we get to know one another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csreeves Posted April 1, 2011 Report Share Posted April 1, 2011 Q3. (Exodus 32:11-13, 30-35; 33:12-17) Why is interceding for the people so important in Moses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tammie7 Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 Q3. (Exodus 32:11-13, 30-35; 33:12-17) Why is interceding for the people so important in Moses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linda bass Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Interceding for the people was so important in Moses ministry because as their leader he was responsible for them. Intercession is an important role for pastors and lay people today because God needs people to stand in the gap and pray on the behalf of others. Unless we are intimately acquinted with both God's character and His promises,it will be difficult to know how to pray for the needs of others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blezed Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 Q3. (Exodus 32:11-13, 30-35; 33:12-17) Why is interceding for the people so important in Moses ministry? Why is this such an important role for pastors and lay leaders today? To intercede effectively before God, why must we know both his character and his promises? 1) It was important to Moses' minstry to intercede for the people because of the personal relationship he had with God. 2) It is an important role for pastors and lay leaders because we are to intercede for our people. The relationship we have with God causes him to show favor on the people we are interceding for. 3) To intercede effectively before God, we must know both his character and his promises to do our job as leaders when there is a crisis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickledilly Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Moses had the personal relationship with Yahweh that afforded him access that the people didn’t have on their own. Intercession for others when they cannot speak for themselves is important, especially in lifting them up to the LORD. When we pray for others, we not only seek God’s intervention and best for them. We gain the heart of God for them. This is truly important for leaders because they have been given authority and responsibility for the spiritual guidance of their people. It’s critical to know God’s character and promises because they are the basis for our relationship with Him - and the basis for His answers to our prayers. Our character and words are flawed and sinful, but who He is (morally pure, just, mighty, etc.) and all that He has promised (forgiveness, peace, power, unending love, etc.) are rock solid. When we pray, including intercession for others, God has promised that His Word will never return void or empty or unfulfilled. When we pray for His reputation, His will, His glory, we will always be praying a prayer He will honor. This means we can approach Him with confidence and expectation. We must know His Word in order to pray according to His character and promises – that’s where He reveals what they are! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashech Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 Q3. (Exodus 32:11-13, 30-35; 33:12-17) Why is interceding for the people so important in Moses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trusting God Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Q3. (Exodus 32:11-13, 30-35; 33:12-17) Why is interceding for the people so important in Moses' ministry? Moses' intercession is a clear example of someone who has taken God's interests into his heart as his own. The surrounding nations were aware of the power of God, and Moses was concern about their opinion of God if He destroys His people. Moses was also depending upon God Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireball3 Posted July 5, 2011 Report Share Posted July 5, 2011 Q3. (Exodus 32:11-13, 30-35; 33:12-17) Why is interceding for the people so important in Moses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wifee Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 3a)People had been influenced by idol worshippers,The people were stiff necked.Moses interceded so they would inherit the promises of God.Though Idol rebellion squashed, God still angry as covenant broken,so Moses offers to Israelites to atone for their sin&intercedes with God again.God says each off us must be responsible for own sin.God will blot out in book of life each one who has sinned,&he sends a plague,that doesn’t wipe them out completely. b)Pastors crucial as church familiar with God’s promises for them.and not following Jesus’way so that He is eveident in their lives.Leadership greatly influences future of a individuals faith journey& church growth. C)By reading the word daily we know God’s nature,character & promises so that when we pray we are doing so in line with his character and purpose for our lives, it is then more effective.He can listen quickly and respond positively to our requests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IvoryEagle Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Why is interceding for the people so important in Moses' ministry? IN A WAY, THEY ARE LIKE BABIES, THEY ONLY KNOW ONE WAY--THE WRONG WAY. UNTIL MOSES CAN GET THEM TOTALLY FOCUSED AND BELIEVING IN "THE WAY" HE MUST CONTINUE TO INTERCEDE AND REMIND GOD OF WHY THEY ARE THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. Why is this such an important role for pastors and lay leaders today? FOR THE SAME REASON, MANY JUST DON'T KNOW GOD. To intercede effectively before God, why must we know both his character and his promises?? WE CAN'T SELL GOD UNTIL WE BUY GOD--WE ONLY BUY WHAT WE KNOW AND BELIEVE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 Interceding for the people of Israel is important for Moses' ministry because they are Moses' ministry. If he is not interceding for them who else is going to? God placed Moses in a leadership position among the Israelites and they now become his responsibility. The same applies to pastors and lay leaders/teachers who God has placed in leadership positions. Leaders must know the Word of God in order to understand him and to know on what basis to pray to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onerivertrail Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Q3. (Exodus 32:11-13, 30-35; 33:12-17) Why is interceding for the people so important in Moses ministry? The people needed a strong and constant leader among them. Moses spent time with God. The people being spontaneous and giving in to their fleshly wants strayed away from a holy God and sinned against Him. Without the intercession of Moses on their behalf to God then the people would have been destroyed and lost forever. Moses intercession also proved his character and knowing the heart of God. Why is this such an important role for pastors and lay leaders today? Leaders set the pace and standard of what God wants for the people. It is important for them to intercede based on what God has said and promised They can only do this if they spend hours in prayer as Jesus did to know and do the will of God. To intercede effectively before God, why must we know both his character and his promises? If we have not investigated and interacted with the character of God and know his promises then our prayers become empty without the heart of God in them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ademola Posted June 23, 2017 Report Share Posted June 23, 2017 Lesson 6; Q3 A. Interceding was important in Moses ministry, because Moses act as mediator of God to the people, & of the people to God. B. The role of intercessor is important to pastors & lay leaders today, because they, like Moses, mediates between God and man. C. It is important for us to know Gods character & promises, because when we know these about God, it help understand his nature and ordinances. Also, these helps us avoid unnecessary error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irmela Posted January 23, 2023 Report Share Posted January 23, 2023 Q3. (Exodus 32:11-13, 30-35; 33:12-17) Why is interceding for the people so important in Moses' ministry? Why is this such an important role for pastors and lay leaders today? To intercede effectively before God, why must we know both His character and His promises?? Moses was the go between anyway between the people and God. He was the LEADER God had chosen to use, to talk for and physically lead the people, out from bondage. The people themselves were out of Egypt but Egypt was not out of them yet. They were in the throes of learning and still mostly had very little faith. Later one can see when the spies sent to spy out the land, 2 out of the 12 proved to have faith enough to go on and trust God to see them though. That makes it only about 17%. So much intercession was necessary. God was aware that the people were a stiff-necked people and this needed to change. For this to happen, it was important to pray for them. To intercede for them. God wanted His people to be an example to other nations, so these too would turn to Him. For this to happen much change had to take place. Moses interceded for the people for them not to be destroyed because of their unfaithfulness towards God again and again. People today are still very much the same. Apostasy is rife. Liberalism is waiting to slip in by the doors of the churches. Jesus set an example and spent much time with God the Father. Pastors and leaders (in fact everyone of us) should do the same. We need to know what there is offered to us for us to be able to ask for it. if we do not know what God has to offer how do we know what to ask for. To get to know what is available we need to know God, thereby getting to know His character and we need to know His Word and His promises, which are found therein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krissi Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 This has been, so far, the most important lesson I have had in all of Pastor Ralph's teaching ... I pray to understand it far, far more deeply. -- There seems to be no limit to what we can ask God in intercession. Furthermore, God Himself doesn't act according to our notions of love and forgiveness but has His own exacting ideas to which we are not privy. When God wanted to slaughter all the Israelites, Moses did not appeal to God's character -- he did not remind God that one of His essential characteristics is love therefore He should overlook and forgive the wayward Israelites -- rather, Moses told God that in the past, He had declared the Israelites to be His people and that they were still His people, even though they had abandoned Him at a crucial point in history. God had promised the Israelites would inherit the land which means there had to be a few Israelites left to get that land. This was the basis of His appeal. Moses, then, interceded for a people whom God had rejected. HE interceded as an individual who knew God well and could speak to God in the first person, as a man to God, not as a nation to God. God did not relent in vengeance -- He killed most of the Israelites with slaughter and plague. He did, however, keep a remnant to enter the land ... as He had promised. But note that the ones who survived did so because they had turned "against their own sons and brothers." Turning away from and rejecting horrible people (idolators) is what permitted the remaining Israelites to be set apart for His service. Slaughtering the horrible Israelites, "killing brother, friend and neighbor," preserved a remnant. Interceding for the remnant saved them. -- So many questions: Should we intercede like Moses? Can we intercede for people who have cruelly and wrongly persecuted us as well as denied Him, can we ask God to separate and slaughter our/His enemies? If we are strong in our beliefs and ethic, must we necessarily oppose our apostate "sons and brothers?" What about turning the other cheek? Is this somehting new for believers, or does God Himself look away when we are persecuted? The strong connection between OUR INTERCESSION and HIS VENGEANCE/PURITY cannot be ignored. We may intercede; He may answer in ways we don't expect or seems cruel. God kills the sinners. He slaughters them. He sends plagues. He does so because worshipping a hand-conceived idol is horrible to God. IN many ways, Moses' intercession didn't make much of a difference: God still slaughtered and judged. Intercession appears to have created a remnant, however, a smaller group of people that could carry on His will. God's character isn't as sweet, fuzzy and loving as we'd prefer -- He easily and willingly slaughters when angry and does demand vengeance. So, to intercede effectively means we have to take both the happy-making and fear-inducing aspects of His character into consideration. Regarding His promises, it's difficult to know what is historically conditioned (for a particular people and place) from what we can ask of Him legitimately here and now. A promise to Moses may not be a promise to me. Probably isn't, in fact. But God's character doesn't change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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