The Power of Intercessory Prayer A Teaching on Power of Intercessory Prayer for Others. This teaching on intercessory prayer is usually praying for someone else. Intercessory is the heart’s cry for souls to be saved. Intercession is the highest form of prayer since it deals with the priceless commodity, the soul of a man. It is having the Lord’s burden to pray for someone’s life by standing in the gap until those prayers are answered. That burden can feel like