Fight for the Brother

I have been maintaining a list of prayer the Lord has specially burdened me to specifically pray an intercessory prayer for. The names of the list keeps growing by the day. Now and then, the Lord would remind me of certain person to add to this list. 

Three days ago as I was driving on my way to Delhi for a prayer fellowship, the Lord reminded me of certain brothers who needed to be prayed for. I literally conversed with the Lord in a friendly manner that I had enough on the list to pray for. Why He had to keep burdening me to pray for so many. I probably cannot handle too much. I am man too, with flesh and blood, who needed to be pray for too, as much as I do for others. I even reasoned with the Lord as these many on my list are mostly believers who needed to be recovered to a proper fellowship in the Body of Christ, I'd rather pray for more unbelievers to be saved, to gain the gentiles for the local church where I am in, in Gurgaon. Those on this list needs to see the Lord's further appearing and the revelation concerning His economy, why bother? But the Lord's burden is the Lord's burden; I should rather give up my opinion and thank the Lord instead, for such an honor and privilege to be able to care for these children of God who needed to be recovered back to the good land and build the temple in Jerusalem.

Last night, as we were entering into message five of the Crystallization-Study of Genesis (2) "Fighting for the Brother", the Lord confirmed the reason why He burdened me with those brothers who needed to be prayed for. I got my answer. It's no longer "Why?" but a "Wow!" A privilege indeed to be honored with the burden of praying for the brothers.

In Genesis 14 when Abraham received the news of Lot's captivity, he did not count on the weak point of his brother, nor did he take pleasure in his suffering and calamity. Rather he considered it a shame to see his brother being captured. Immediately he took his 318 men and fought against 4 kings and their armies, defeated them, rescued and recovered back his brother Lot. Behind the scene of the battle was a prayer to Jehovah and an interceding of Melchizedek. This settled all my natural opinions. Irrespective of the conditions, reasons for my brothers' failure and being capture by Satan, I cannot stand to tolerate the shame of my brothers being put to shame. Whatever may be the reasons behind the failures of my brothers, I must pray for them and fight for them by all means until they are fully restored and recovered for the fulfillment of the Lord's heart's desire.

Fighting for the brother is mainly by two ways. First, by interceding for them according to God and His economy. This is the reason why the Lord kept burdening me to pray for my brothers. The list keeps growing and thank the Lord that it grows. And may it grow as He will grace to pray for the growing burden. Second, by ministering the processed God into the brother for their overcoming supply and enjoyment. This is by shepherding them in all ways possible that the brothers may be restored to normalcy to live an overcoming life for the church life.

Now I am at ease and thank the Lord for such a blessing of burden to pray for. As burden grows, grace will grow much more to meet the growing burden. Faithfully and prayerfully, in oneness with the Lord, fight for the brother!