Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. The title of today's post is Connecting Heaven and Earth.

We've been talking about the Hebrew word for intercession, Paga. Let's review. Like most Hebrew words, Paga represents more of a general concept which can be applied to various scenarios.

The concept of Pagah is of two or more people, places, or things, meeting, coming together for pretty much any reason. Therefore, it is used in the

context of encounter, meet in order to visit, request, attack, and more. Land or light upon,

boundaries, because that's where land meets other land, burdens being placed

or laid upon someone, and more. These meetings, encounters, can even be by chance, happening upon.

Pagah is translated intercession, not because it means asking or

petitioning, it doesn't, but because intercession is meeting with God, creates meetings

between God and others, meets and attacks spiritual enemies, builds protective

boundaries, etc. Looking at references where Paga is used to describe various activities,

regardless of the English word used to translate it, gives us different pictures of what intercession Pagah can accomplish.

In the account of Jacob's encounter, God encounter, in Genesis 28, 10 to 19, Pagah

was used to describe Jacob happening upon Bethel.

Yet, what was by chance to Jacob was not actually happenstance.

God was directing him.

A similar thing occurs when we intercede. God directs us, causes our intercession to

land upon the right place or person releasing blessings from heaven. If you did not see or hear

the last two posts, I strongly recommend you checking

them out. They will encourage you. Several other significant truths can be seen through Jacob's

meeting, Pagah, at Bethel, valid pictures of what Pagah produces.

I'm going to mention briefly four more today.

The first is that through intercession,

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