Yes my brother, I had hoped you and I were in agreement on this important topic.
"...men always ought to pray and not lose heart." Luke 18:1.
Intercession to me means to "fill up....{with} what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ. Col. 1:24, and this is precisely why there are so few intercessors.Many of my brethren describe intercession by saying, "It is putting yourself in someone else's place." But this is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God's place; it is having His mind and His perspective.
I believe it important to note in the area of intercession that we need to be careful not to seek too much information from God regarding the situation you are praying about, because you may be overwhelmed. If you know too much, more than God has ordained for you to know, you can't pray; the circumstances of the people become so overpowering that you are no longer able to get to the underlying truth.
Our work is to be in such close contact with God that we may have His mind about everything, but we shirk that responsibility by substituting doing for interceding. And yet intercession is the only thing that has no drawbacks, because it keeps our relationship completely open to God.
What we must avoid in intercession is praying for someone to be simply "patched up." We must pray that person completely through into contact with the very life of God. Think of the number of people God has brought across our path, only to see us drop them!When we pray on the basis of redemption, God creates something He can create in no other way than through intercessory prayer.
I high-five the need to make it a highlight of all our lives. We not only have God's power, we are His power to love other's affectively thru His will, and now ours as well, thru His resources. God bless you my brother in Christ, Shalom. May God richly bless the entire world with such dedicated love for one another!