STANDING IN THE GAP

There’s been many times in the past, I had problems unaware

Problems that would cause results that I’d do well to fear.

It was others standing in the gap it was the love they had for me

That God could break and mold and make the vessel I should be.

There’ve been times I’ve got so low and needed others prayers

One hand on God and one on me so life’s burden I could bear.

God help me not just wave goodbye when others fall away

But keep them in Your presence with the prayers that I should pray.

I’ll pay the price, I’ll lay me down and their burden bear

It’s a sacrifice that I can make ‘til they know how much You care.

Not some idea of fluffy love in reality love has cost

Someone has to pay, intercede for those who’re lost.

 

... Of course, we all understand that it was when Dathan and Korah had decided that they would interfere with the commission that God had give to Moses, saying, "You ought to let the whole congregation do such-and-such. They're all holy." And God had commanded Moses to lead the people to the promised land. And they said, "You take it upon yourself to do too much. You that try to make yourself the only one in the bunch that's got any say-so."
And this displeased God so much until He told Moses, "Separate yourself from among them. I'll just kill the whole bunch and start a new generation with you." And Moses fell in the Presence of God and said He'd have to come over him. See?
Now, today, if God was going to liquidate the people... And there was a time that when God had gotten tired of fooling with our sin (we constantly going wrong)... Who would stand like Moses today for the people? Where would we find a person that would stand, or could stand, that God would accept like He did Moses? And Moses' own life on earth meant so much to God till it stayed the wrath of God. And God would not cross over Moses.... One day in revelation of the Scripture there came this thought to me, that... You see, Moses in act was every way substituting. He was a type of Jesus Christ.
William Branham, Standing in the Gap 63-06-23