Galatians 5:13, “Serving one another in Love.”

John the Baptist was blazing brightly in the desert of Israel during the time when Jesus stepped on the scene. This forerunner John was so completely abandoned to serving the Lord that Jesus came to him to receive the baptism so that all righteousness could be fulfilled. John’s eyes were gazing upon the Lord and out of this flowed the outpouring of the greatest servant besides Jesus – a burning man who went low and fasted and prayed in the wilderness so that many others would reap the benefits of his labors.

The calling of the intercessor is to follow the steps of our Lord and to bend low and become the servants of all - a man or woman who counts their lives as a grain of wheat that falls to earth and dies for the sake of the prodigal sons and daughters who are still a great way off to be brought home to their Father’s loving embrace. [Luke 15:20].

To serve one another in love is to fall on our knees in earnest expectation of God’s power and to cry out for mercy on the lost, to cry out for the blood of Jesus to cover the doorposts of our national guilt, and to call upon Jesus to anoint this generation of burning Nazirite lovers to walk in power and authority so that we will witness a mighty deliverance of those who are “bound by the strong man” of sexual immorality. God has raised up leaders and anointed men and women throughout the state of California to carry the torch of intercession and lift their voices for justice and truth.

As many are praying this very day for our state’s leaders and elected officials may we also not forget the hundreds if not thousands of pastors and leaders of the many congregations in our state – that our prayers would bring the power of God upon them – Oh that the cry for our church leaders would resound in Zion’s gates: Psalm 80:17 - Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand, the son of man you have raised up for yourself.