Message Notes

YAG-YC RETREAT                            SESSION # 6
Text: Psalm 74

Subject: Intercession

1. A study of the Ministry of Intercession

a)    Priests

b)    Levites

c)    Every godly person

2. Comprehension of the Context

a)    Actual

b)    Prophetic

3. Statement of the Context

a)    Cast off by God    Psalm 74:1

b)    The anger of God    Psalm 74:1

c)    The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary    Psalm 74:3

d)    Enemies in Your meeting place                Psalm 74:4

e)    They break down its carved work            Psalm 74:6

f)    They have set fire to Your sanctuary            Psalm 74:7

g)    They have defiled Your dwelling place of Your name    Psalm 74:8

h)    They have said, “Let us destroy them altogether”    Psalm 74:8

i)    The adversary reproach                Psalm 74:10

j)    The enemy blaspheme Your name            Psalm 74:10

4. Lament of the sad spiritual plight in the land

a)    We do not see our signs                Psalm 74:9

b)    There is no longer any prophet                Psalm 74:9

c)    Nor is there anyone among us who knows how long    Psalm 74:9

5. Essential elements of Intercession

a)    Seeking understanding            Psalm 74:1
Asking “Why?”

b)    Pleading “remembrance”            Psalm 74:2, 18    (Exodus 2:24)

c)    Pleading “God’s inheritance”            Psalm 74:5

i)Your congregation

ii)Redeemed

iii)Mt. Zion

d)    Pleading the case against the wicked        Psalm 74:5-10, 22-23

e)    Further quest for deeper understanding        Psalm 74:11
Asking “Why”?”

f)    Exercising faith                Psalm 74:12-17

g)    Special concern about the poor        Psalm 74:19, 21

h)    Pleading the Covenant            Psalm 74:20

i)    God to plead His own cause            Psalm 74:22