Our service to Christ is only fulfilled by some body action of ours - by body dedication. Only by this means does redemption reach the multimillion bodies of our human brotherhood. There still is for us a body death and body involvement by which God s saving purposes are fulfilled, as by His own Son s body. This is intercession. This is a far cry from the loose way in which we Christians continually talk of intercession in terms of intercessory prayer.
Intercession is the whole mountain of which prayer is one peak.
There are only one or two places in Scripture where the word intercession is linked just to prayer. Intercession is revealed in the Bible as God looking for special men by whom He will give some special deliverance. So we see the intercessor is the Spirit Himself through His chosen bodies. And that means a completed task. That was the completed intercession of the great High Priest.