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After all, intercession is not asking God to do difficult things for Mr, Jones or Mr. Smith (though. as you say, sometimes when we are deeply concerned we can't help doing this). It is offering your will and love that God may use them as channels whereby his spirit of mercy, healing, power or light may reach them and achieve his purposes for them. We can't do it unless we care, both for God's will and also for "the whole family of man". But that certainly does not involve knowing all the details about everyone who asks (for) our prayers. God knows the details: we need not.
taken from:
Letters of Evelyn Underhill page 242/3
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