When we offer intercessory prayers for those around us, is our own sympathy for them getting in the way of offering effective prayer? Are we putting our own desires for their wellbeing between them and God? Scripture tells us to pray for others, and in fact I am a dedicated intercessor. I pray for others every day, and not just trivially. Although this is something we are called to do many of us have the misconceived notion that intercessory prayer is some flowing oration suitable for publication... but it is not. Intercessory prayers should be comprised of real language to a real God in the midst of real-life issues, and we are meant to ask that His real will be done. Intercessory prayer allows us to reconcile our will with God’s.