🙏🛐 Necessity of Prayer - 8🛐🙏 📖✝️Lesson - 8✝️📖 "Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child." Isaiah 66:7 A mother experiences labor pains before a child is born. Labor pain is intrinsically linked to the delivery of a child; no child can be born without labor pain. For this reason, prayer can be compared to labor pain. God desires to work, but He requires a prayerful person who cries out. Prayer is especially needed from those who have an inner cry for the salvation of others' souls. The Lord Jesus Himself, during His time in the flesh, prayed "with loud cries and tears" (Hebrews 5:7). Furthermore, in Isaiah 53:12, we see that "He poured out His soul unto death". His heart was so burdened to save sinful people that He constantly interceded for them to the Father (Isaiah 53:12). Even now, He acts as our High Priest, interceding for us all before the Father (Hebrews 7:25). He said to Peter, "I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail" (Luke 22:32). At the root of Peter’s faith, we see the Lord Jesus' intercession, and He commanded, "when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers" (Luke 22:32). Therefore, just as we are protected by the virtue of the Lord's intercession and are strengthened in our Christian lives, we also have an urgent need to protect others. For this reason, we too need to intercede constantly before the Father. Abraham pleaded with God so much to save Lot. Consequently, God sent angels to bring Lot's family out. Lot was not saved by virtue of his own righteousness, but by the virtue of Abraham's intercession. Thus, how necessary it is for us to cry out for others! "My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you." Galatians 4:19