You come to God through His Son, and He is able to save you to the uttermost. Consider the depth of this: He ever lives to make intercession. This is not a sign of any lack in His dignity, but the very proof of His unceasing love. He who is Life itself, who holds all judgment, appears as your High Priest not because He needs to plead as a suppliant from a place of weakness, but to show you the vigorous warmth of His care. When you pray for protection and carry silent requests, you place them into the hands of One whose love has not cooled, who sits at the right hand of the Father and yet still keeps up the same love He showed on the cross. Do not tremble or be afraid when you have such great interest taken in you.
Yet let this same truth correct a hidden disorder. You ask for protection and keep silent requests. I know that often silence has its proper place, but sometimes we are silent where we should not be. There is a silence that comes from humility, and a silence that comes from fear of man, or even from a wish to shelter something that runs against the will of God. If your silent requests hide a situation you know to be contrary to sound teaching, a union God does not bless, a living arrangement that belongs only within a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, then you are asking the High Priest to bless that which He bled to cleanse you from. Such a petition puts order in reverse. He petitions you through His ambassadors to be reconciled to God, to turn from what defiles. Do not ask the Ruler to sanction what the people in their passions have approved, growing savage and bloodthirsty toward the truth.
I am afraid to keep silent myself, for when one is appointed to the ministry of the word and holds his peace, he increases your danger. Examine those unspoken matters. If any do not align with the salvation that is through Christ alone, bring them out of the shadow. Confess them for what they are, not as things to be blessed but as things to be healed. He is able to save to the uttermost, not just a little, but fully and forever, those who come to God by Him. Come with your whole house ordered in subjection to His will, and you will find His intercession is no empty word but the shelter of a love that endures eternally.