Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

All right, so this is our last message in a series called Jesus in the Center.

And James, my son and I have been co-preaching this series.

He began with Jesus in the center of your stress and then I did a message Jesus in the

center of your prayers and then he did a message Jesus in the center. I did a message then, no he did in the center of your brokenness, Jesus in the center of your brokenness.

And then I did a message Jesus in the center of your thoughts and then last week he did one called Jesus in the center of your blessing about blessing others if you didn't get to hear that you'll want to hear that.

By the way, anytime you miss a message, go back and listen to it.

Either when you're driving or when you're exercising or whatever, just get in the habit of listening to a message

of your message or re-listing to a message that the Holy Spirit really used in your life.

And when I tell you the title you're going to think I already preached on this because I preached

on Jesus in the center of your prayers, but as we get into it, you're going to find out

it is different.

And that is that this week is Jesus in the center of your

intercession. And I used to think that the definition of intercession was a long prayer.

That's kind of what I thought. That's a long prayer.

Prayer is you get right to the point and then if you have longer to pray then you're interceding for someone, you know?

And you have to understand I never was a long prayer. I've learned to pray longer over the years but I'm a bottom line

person and there are two types of people in the world if you don't know this

bottom-line people and beat around the Bush people and if you don't know which you are

You're a beat around the bush person.

I see people shaking me out, that's right, that's right.

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