Intercessors' Prayer

"For I heard a cry as of a
woman in labor;
The anguish as of one
giving birth to her first child"
Jeremiah 4:31

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INTERCESSORS' PRAYER

"Lord, I tearfully ask:
Teach me to pray with groanings so that there are earth-quakes in hell.
Teach me the groanings of the Spirit until angels stand in awe. 
Teach me Spirit-born intercession that changes history.
Teach me the birth pangs of the Holy Ghost until hell-shaking revival is born. 
Lead me into travail that will hold back divine judgement from the nations for a little season. 
Let me be a living sacrifice on the altar of prayer, "bleeding to bless,"
until flood-tides of mercy sweep the nations. 
Lord, break my heart in intercession until my eyes, like those of Jeremiah, are a fountain of tears weeping for the slain of an educated, but spiritually dead, people."

* Excerpt from the book "Revival God's Way" by Leonard Ravenhill. p.99