There are three things to be seen in an intercessor which are not necessarily found in ordinary prayer: identification, agony and authority.
Before God will use you in intercession, it will cost you.
The intercessors love God so much, that they want to obey. They will pay the price because of their love for the Savior.
There is death involved in intercession. But the focus is never just death. The Spirit of God is gaining ground all the time. You will gain tremendous power over the enemy.
Intercession in many ways is hidden. The world does not see the prayer until it is completed. Jesus, The Intercessor, was misunderstood in His intercession. Not until after the resurrection did the disciples begin to understand why He came. Only after His ascension did they begin to understand His work as the great High Priest, who entered into death to destroy it.
The path of the intercessor is the way of the cross. It is also the way of fellowship with Jesus on a very deep level. It is a sacrifice of love. The intercessor has the sentence of death (death to self) in himself. In dying to self in order to lift someone else up, we identify with Jesus’ death.
As the crucifixion of self proceeds, intercession begins.
Once the Holy Spirit has called an intercessor to a spiritual conflict, the intercessor must carry on to completing the task, no matter what the cost ”” and it will be costly.
The intercessor will discover wave upon wave of evil as they prevail upon God, to witness spiritual systems that have held millions of people in bondage for centuries, broken.
Intercession is completely voluntary. You are never forced into prayer. The intercessor needs to be willing to enter into a new place of intercession.
The intercessor finds a place of prevailing prayer with God.
The intercessor must become responsible for the prayer that the Holy Spirit gives them. They must ‘pray through’ until the prayer is answered.