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Intercession is birthed on the very altar of God when there is a heart aching for the lost and seeing the world on its way to perdition with no hope. 

The obligation of the priest was to keep the fire burning; he had to renew the wood on the altar "every morning". There is a kindling altar—a personal altar—inside those of us who pray to God for ourselves, our family, our nation, our government, for the church and those who suffer. 

Every morning we are to revive the fire on the altar. If we allow it to go out, we would fail to apply the principal taught by God. We must maintain our altar and our devotion ablaze to God. We cannot allow the fire to go out under any circumstance.

Many times, the hurry and the numerous activities make our prayer life almost an obligation: "Lord, bless me this day. Protect my life, my family… Amen". God requires something else. Keeping the fire ablaze implies a little more work than just approaching the altar. 

When we stand before the altar, before the burning fire, the Lord sees to it that all of our impurities are burnt.

God is seeking for men and women that will kneel before Him to not only pray for their own needs, but to intercede for those who suffer. When we do this, our prayer reaches the very throne of God.

We won't be able to intercede if we aren't hearing the aching pain, the heartrending cry of those who are suffering, if we can't see their agonizing faces, only waiting for death to come; people that are agonizing, crying in the pain of their disease, asking for our help. 

If you are willing to intercede, prepare a large towel for your prayer time because you are going to soak it with tears.

Let's use our Savior as our ultimate example and begin to pray, cry out, groan, weep with fervent cries and tears for those who are lost. Let's not allow a day to go by without this becoming a reality in our lives.