When something great happens, we want to tell somebody. When something terrible happens, we have to tell somebody. When a crisis hits, when we receive bad news, when we get the breath knocked out of us, we for someone to tell, someone to bear the burden, and for someone to pray for us. It’s called intercession. “I urge you,” Paul wrote, “first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them. Intercede on their behalf” (1 Timothy 2:1). Intercession is believing enough and caring enough to pray, believing enough and caring enough to take someone’s need to God and to speak someone’s name to God.