The Blessing of One Who Intercedes

Prayer    Merciful Father, thank you for your blessings. Help me to have a life of interceding for others. Teach me how to not only counsel my friends, coworkers and family but to also pray for them without cease. Help me to serve you wholeheartedly and to trust you completely. In Jesus' name, Amen The Blessing of One Who Intercedes by Veronica Garrett  When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground. She fell at his feet and said: “My lord, let the blame be on me alone. Please let your servant speak to you; hear what your servant has to say.” Abigail was the wife of a very wealthy Nabal. She was smart and beautiful but her husband was mean and wicked in his business transactions. While David was in the desert he sent ten young men to Nabal with a warm greeting making a request for his favor. Nabal’s reply, was “Who is this David? Who is the son of Jesse? Why should I take my wealth and give it to you people coming from who knows where? When David’s men brought the report back to him his reply was, “put on your swords”. And they put them one and David put on his. About four hundred men went with David. In the meantime one of Nabal’s servants told his wife Abigail. “David sent messengers from the desert to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them”…in fact, they protected us while we were in the fields. Think about this and see what you can do.  Disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him. Abigail wasted no time she gathered a feast for a king. She sends her servants ahead with the feast. She didn’t tell her husband but she went riding her donkey to meet David. When she saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before him with her face to the ground. She takes full blame for Nabal’s folly. She admits that he is wicked and that his name means Fool. She pleads with David that since the Lord has kept him from bloodshed that he allow God to avenge him and she blesses David and curses his enemies. She acknowledges God’s promise for David to become leader over Israel so he should not even have the burden of Nabal’s needless blood on his hand. David praises God for her intervention because his mission was to kill every male in Nabal’s household. He accepts her offering and sends her home in peace. He heard her words and granted her request. Abigail is captured in scripture as woman of intercession. When seeing her husband’s folly she doesn’t go and give him a piece of her mind she makes an offering for him.  David is to be an earthly king and since Nabal had set his face against God’s soon to be leader we see that her intercessions were not for a small matter.  Who is this David? Who is the son of Jesse?  He is in the lineage of the promised Messiah. He is God’s anointed!   When she bowed to make intercessions she was honest and she was compassionate. As we see she lavishly made an offering, she admitted her husband’s guilt, praised the king, she took his folly upon herself, and begged for forgiveness while petitioning the king. How much would we see our request granted if the child of God would instead of calling our friends who have no power to grant any request? Bow a knee to the King of kings praised & pray to him, asking for a divine intervention.