Here is a question that has been asked for millennia: “If God is really there, if He is loving, sovereign, and omnipotent, then why are things such a mess?” The answer is simple: God’s plan has always been to work on Earth with and through His people, not independently of them.
The fact is, God placed the role and responsibility of stewarding this world on His children.
To quote John Wesley: “God does nothing on the earth save in answer to believing prayer.” That is, the Lord limits Himself in many ways to the actions, decisions, and requests of His appointed stewards.
As we are told in Psalms 115:16:
>>>> “The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind.” - Psalms 115:16 <<<<
God involves Himself in the affairs of our world through people. All of the Lord’s plans and purposes will ultimately be realized, but delays occur at times because He waits until He can find people through whom to work; people who will accept responsibility, pray, act, and intercede on behalf of others.
The most impactful revivals and moves of God the last 2000 years were ignited through the prayers and actions of the smallest band of individuals with hearts to “step into the gap.”
Unfortunately, ignorance, self-interest, and bad theology within Christendom has contributed to things “going off the rails.” While many men and religious organizations falsely projected authority to take the reins of managing people’s interaction with the Lord, they rarely taught believers how to take responsibility or step into their proper roles to manage and govern the earth.
When people don’t step up, waiting for the will of God to be fulfilled can take years, decades, even multiple generations. It may be a long time from our perspective, but the Almighty exists outside of time and these periods aren’t even the blink of an eye to Him. Still, there are temporal consequences when people fail to operate in the role that God ordained.
While many were saved from God’s wrath and destruction though Moses’ intercession, the generation of Israelites that came out of Egyptian slavery missed its destiny by failing to trust the Lord refusing to step into the land He promised them; God waited and fulfilled His plans through the next generation. Jesus said Jerusalem in His day missed its time of visitation (see Luke 19:44).
How many times did God save, bless, rescue or redeem His people because just one man or woman stepped into the role of intercession on behalf of others? Abraham, Joseph, Gideon, Deborah, Esther, just to name a few who come to mind.
Intercession for others is the theme of the Scripture time and again.
It is the very reason he has called His people to be a nation of priests. We aren’t merely to be priests acting on behalf of each other, we are priests called to intercede for people of the world who do not know Him yet.
Where would the world be today if even a minority of God’s people were actively interceding for it?
Change is coming, but not the way that many think. Stay tuned.

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