Imagine you’re on a battlefield. Your sword is broken. Your armor has holes. Your knees are weak. You keep tripping over the ground. Your enemy taunts you, and those taunts become a torment so loud you can’t hear your heart pounding.
This is what it’s like to be an intercessor without inner healing.
Inner healing invites God into every dark corner of your heart. Any weaknesses you have, He will expose for healing. Psalm 139:23-24 should be every intercessor’s heart cry to God. It’s like pouring peroxide into a wound and watching the infection bubble to the surface for healing.
When you submit your heart to God for inner healing, you are bringing your heart into His sanctification process (Philippians 2:12; Hebrews 12:15). We don’t know the depths of what we hold in our hearts (Jeremiah 17:9). That’s why we need to ask God to show us and heal us.
If you are trying to go into battle as an intercessor, without inviting God to search every area of your heart for healing, you will find your heart is exposed to the enemy. The enemy hates intercession so he will look for any place he can grab hold of you and torment you.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
Ask God to begin showing you areas of your heart that need healing. Ask Him to begin the healing process and be willing to submit your heart fully to Him.
Don’t go through inner healing alone. I’m part of a whole tribe of people going through the journey of inner healing together, and we keep each other on speed dial for help, prayers, and accountability. Find your tribe and stay connected.
Lots of great inner healing ministries exist — one might be right in your neighborhood. The ministry that I love and have participated in since 2007 is Kerri Johnson Ministries. Whichever inner healing ministry you become involved in, be sure it is biblically based, Christ centered, Spirit filled, and invites heart encounters between you and Jesus for your healing.
Whatever you do, don’t let the enemy take potshots at you on the battlefield of intercession. Identify the wounds in your heart and allow Jesus to bind them up (Psalm 147:3, Isaiah 61:1, Luke 4:18).
Then you will be able to intercede under the shelter of God’s wings (Psalm 91:4), hidden in Christ (Colossians 3:3), with clean hands and a pure heart (Psalm 24:3-4).
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