The Prayers of Jesus
We owe much to our Savior's ongoing prayers for us!
“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail” (Luke 22:31-32b).
Jesus always lives to make intercession for us. C.H. Spurgeon helps us consider the magnitude of this blessing —
How encouraging is the thought of the Redeemer’s never-ceasing intercession for us. When we pray, He pleads for us; and when we are not praying, He is advocating our cause, and by His supplications shielding us from unseen dangers. Notice the word of comfort addressed to Peter—“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but”—what? “But go and pray for yourself”?
That would be good advice, but it is not so written. Neither does He say, “But I will keep you watchful, and so you shall be preserved.” That would be a great blessing. No, it is, “But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail.”
We little know what we owe to our Savior’s prayers. When we reach the hilltops of heaven and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God has led us, how we shall praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief that Satan was doing upon earth.
From Morning and Evening, written by C. H. Spurgeon