The Hebrew word used in 2 Chronicles 7:14 for 'pray' is a word that means to intercede, to intervene, to interpose. The humble praying we are doing for others as believers is in intercession. Like Abraham praying for Lot and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and like Moses standing in the face of God's wrath to pray for the wayward people of Israel, we are called to stand in the gap for those around us, that they would be redeemed and freed by the sacrifice and grace of Jesus Christ.
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