This volume provides a collection of prayers and artwork based on the New Testament texts, inviting readers to join in the Spirit's moving through words, figures, and colors. Yeo and Matheny offer this resource to worship leaders, those interested in spirituality, prayers, and artistic expressions of the New Testament. The process of praying and painting the New Testament allows the Spirit to intercede for God's will in the world and incarnate peace in our lives that surpasses all understanding. ""Yeo, ably matched by Claire Matheny, lets the text surge into contemporary life with its ample measure of loss and pain, of wonder and possibility. The 'connect' that the Spirit makes between Scripture and contemporary faith is accomplished in the rich and daring utterance of prayer. The author has probed deeply into the human condition and lets it intersect with the biblical text in compelling ways. The book is a model for the interaction that faith and culture must always undertake anew, an interaction that at its best evokes human dignity among us. The interplay of utterance and image in this volume make for a powerful invitation."" --Walter Brueggemann, author of Praying the Psalms, 2nd ed. ""In The Spirit Intercedes: The New Testament in Prayers and Images, K. K. Yeo brings together his excellence as a New Testament scholar with his lively Christian faith to craft inspiring prayers for biblically literate Christians. The prayers, which draw richly on biblical narratives and imagery, will lead those who pray them more deeply into Scripture. They are appropriate both for Bible study and for worship. Dr. Yeo's book, enriched by evocative pictures by Claire Matheny, is an important contribution to the spiritual tradition of praying the Scriptures."" --Ruth Duck, Professor of Worship, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary K. K. Yeo is Harry R. Kendall Professor of New Testament at Garrett-Evangelical Seminary, Affiliate Faculty at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Northwestern University (Evanston), and a Visiting Professor of Peking University, Peking Normal University, Zhejiang University, Huaqiao University, and Fudan University in China. He is a Lilly Scholar (1999) and Henry Luce III Scholar (2003), and the co-director for the Center for Classical Greco-Roman Philosophy and Religious Studies, Institute for Ethics and Religious Studies (IERS), Tsinghua University, Beijing (since September 2015). He has authored/edited over twenty-three Chinese books and fourteen English books. He is the author of Musing with Confucius and Paul (2008), The Spirit Hovers (2011), Zhuangzi and James (2012), co-edited (with Gene L. Green and Steve T. Pardue) on Majority World Theology Series (Eerdmans, Langham) and co-edited with Melanie Baffes Contrapuntal Readings of the Bible in World Christianity (Wipf & Stock). As a Chinese born and raised in Borneo, Malaysia, educated in the United States, and currently serving the global church by preparing academic and ecclesial leaders in the US, Middle East, and China, K. K.'s teaching and research have focused on culture and the Bible, with a special emphasis on the tasks of building nations, transforming local communities, fulfilling the ideals of culture, saving individuals from chaos, meaninglessness, and injustice, and moving them toward shalom and beauty. S. Claire Matheny is a Chaplain Resident in the Clinical Pastoral Education Program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. From designing bulletin covers at an early age to her present prayer journaling, Claire has long sought to enliven art through faith.