Jesus Our Compassionate Intercessor

JESUS OUR COMPASSIONATE INTERCESSOR 2/03/07

CHURCH DURING WORSHIP: I heard the Lord say, “My bride, set her free!” Then I heard the Lord say “trumpet” and I looked towards the stage and had the brief impression that 4 angels with trumpets were going to sound an announcement of some kind.

VISION IN WORSHIP: We were singing about bowing before Him at the throne and I had a picture of the back of Jesus, as a man. He had approached the Father’s throne. I did not see the throne, but knew He was approaching His Father. Jesus kneeled and laid His head down in His Father’s lap. I heard Him say, “My bride! “ He was overcome with grief for His broken bride, and I saw a spiritual hand reach down and touch His beloved Son’s head and hair to comfort Him.

I knew Jesus was our intercessor and felt our pain, but had the impression that He’d had enough and needed comfort Himself. All He knew was to lay His head in His Daddy’s lap. It still brings me to tears to think of this. To think of His intercessions over us, and bearing our sufferings and sorrows really impacted me. I used to think of Him as a high priest, performing “duties” but I know that He is broken hearted over us as we are broken ourselves.

CONFIRMATION: I had no idea what pastor was going to preach on tonight. He preached on Jehovah Rapha, the Lord our Healer from Psalms 103.

Ps 103:3 NKJV

Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases.

Isa 53:3-5 NKJV

A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief...
...Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

BORNE

OT:5375

OT:5375 nasa' (naw-saw'); or nacah (Ps 4:6 [OT:7]) (naw-saw'); a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows):

KJV - accept, advance, arise, (able to, [armor], suffer to) bear (-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, swear, take (away, up), utterly, wear, yield.

GRIEF

OT:2483

OT:2483 choliy (khol-ee');

from OT:2470; malady, anxiety, calamity:

KJV - disease, grief, (is) sick (-ness).

CARRIED

OT:5445

OT:5445 cabal (saw-bal'); a primitive root; to carry (literally or figuratively), or (reflexively) be burdensome; specifically, to be gravid:

KJV - bear, be a burden, carry, strong to labour.

SORROWS

OT:4341

OT:4341 mak'ob (mak-obe'); sometimes mak'owb (mak-obe'); also (feminine Isa 53:3) mak'obah (mak-o-baw'); from OT:3510; anguish or (figuratively) affliction:

KJV - grief, pain, sorrow.

HEALED

OT:7495

OT:7495 rapha' (raw-faw'); or raphah (raw-faw'); a primitive root; properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure:

KJV - cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, thoroughly, make whole. See OT:7503.

I kept thinking about the vision because I was so moved by it and kept thinking of Jesus being undone with grief over us. I wondered if that was even scriptural. Just as I wondered this, pastor shared the scripture from Isa 6:9 where Isaiah was before the throne and he too was undone. The word Woe, is an impassioned expression of grief and despair.

Isa 6:5 NKJV

"Woe is me, for I am undone!

WOE

OT:188

OT:188 'owy (o'-ee); probably from OT:183 (in the sense of crying out after); lamentation; also interjectionally Oh!:

KJV - alas, woe.

WOE

Woe: an impassioned expression of grief and despair:

UPDATE CONFIRMATION:

UPDATE CONFIRMATION: 2/09/07 I went to bed very weary with tender and broken tears. I turned with AH to the following:

ANNIE’S VISIONS – BOOK 2

THE CLEANSING FIRES

In spite of physical pain, weariness and a heavy sense of discouragement, I was at last enabled to press through into His presence. After a brief but tender welcome, He told me again not to fear and immediately I found myself in the place where He dwells in His glorious Cloud. When He ordered me to look I saw once again the living stones of pure crystal gold which form the walls of His heavenly temple. This time I saw the same stones below upon the earth. (The earth does not appear in any way at all as it does to the natural eye; nor do the living stones upon the earth appear at all like they do in the celestial realms.) I knew that they were the very same living stories that I has seen before in the heavenlies, even though the glory, beauty and brilliancy of light were diminished. The same things that I have seen in the two realms are so unalike that there is hardly any comparison. In fact, none of the things which He has shown in the celestial realms above are in any way alike when they appear upon the earth. Nevertheless, I know that they are one and the same things.

The fire that was burning inside these living stones was quite unlike the fire that I had seen burning within them in heaven. It was also unlike the fire that I had seen proceeding forth from Him during times of His wrath and His judgments. These living stones were not all grouped together within one fire, but each stone had its own cleansing fire. It appeared to me that each stone had been contaminated by some loathsome insects and this fire was consuming them. The fiercely hot flame was purifying each living stone, destroying all the foreign and contaminating elements that did not belong there.

These fires were necessary because they were burning and consuming all of the contaminating and destructive elements in His living stones. Meanwhile, the Lord was very carefully and tenderly watching over His stones lest there be too much fire at any one time. Even as a father watches over His gravely ill child when He has administered some potent medication to restore him to health, so was the Lord watching over His own. In no way was He indifferent to the pain these fires caused but with tenderest love He covered His children with His cloud, watching diligently over them. Deeply sensitive to all their anguish and cryings, He never left them alone for a moment. He seemed to be weeping together with them. Yet, at the same time, He was rejoicing for He knew that the fires were working cleansing and purity in them.