You’re in a difficult situation. You ask some friends to pray for you. Even as you walk your bumpy road, it’s a comfort to know your friends are praying for you. Somehow, you have a sense of peace – you FEEL their prayers! And as time passes, you know it was their prayers that got you through. Well, there was someone else praying for you.
Jesus was praying for you.
And He’s praying for you right now! Jesus is at the right hand of the Father interceding for you.1 To intercede means to appeal or petition on behalf of someone else. Jesus is appealing to the Father on your behalf. He always lives to intercede for you.2 That means He WAS praying for you, He IS praying for you, and He will CONTINUE to pray for you.
So here’s my question: if we sense the prayers of other people, why do we not sense even more the prayers of our Savior Jesus, who intercedes for us continually? He understands your heart and what you’re going through. Think of the love He has for you, His depth of insight, the power of His prayers. How awesome is that! He already knows what you’re going to face and how it will turn out. He also has your ultimate best in mind. He has plans for amazing things He wants to do through you for His Kingdom.
What are some things Jesus is praying for you?
Jesus is praying for God’s will for you. It agrees with the prayer He gave us to pray to His Father: “Your kingdom come; Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”3 It agrees with what Jesus Himself told His Father: “Not my will, but Yours be done.”4 God wants to meet your needs; God’s will is to empower you; God wants you to share Jesus with others.
Jesus is praying for your protection from evil. Before leaving this earth He prayed, “Protect them by the power of Your name.”5 He told us to agree in prayer: “Deliver us from evil.”6 Jesus does not want us to succumb to Satan’s strategies of fear, doubt, and deception. Instead, Jesus said, “My peace I give you…Do not let your hearts be troubled.” 7 He also said, “I am the way and the truth and the life.” 8
Jesus is praying for the unity of His true followers, that they may be one as He and His Father were one. 9 Jesus, while on earth, didn’t go around doing His own thing. He did only what He saw the Father doing and said only what the Father told Him to say. 10 He sought to please His Father, and indeed He did! If we each, with all our hearts, seek to please God instead of ourselves and to say only what God tells us to say, we will be on the same page, just as Jesus prayed we would be.
So, whenever you face trials, say to yourself, “Jesus is praying for me.” Whenever you’re uncertain or afraid, repeat to yourself, “Jesus is praying for me.” Whenever you’re lonely, whenever discouraged, remember, “Jesus is praying for me.” And He is! This very moment.
1 Romans 8:34; 2 Hebrews 7:25; 3 Matthew 6:10; 4 Luke 22:42; 5 John 17:11; 6 Matthew 6:13; 7 John 14:27; 8 John 14:6; 9 John 17:21; 10 John 5:19, 8:28;