How To Pray for..

Those who are Lost


For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17

Reference Subject Scripture & Sample Prayer
2 Tim 2:25 Repentance

Scripture: Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth.

Sample Prayer: Give them a genuine sorrow over their sin

Love, Know of God's

Scripture:

Sample Prayer: Create a divine encounter where they will hear of Jesus' love for them.

Honesty

Scripture:

Sample Prayer: Cause them to see their true spiritual condition.

2 Cor 4:3,4 Blindspot, Reveal their

Scripture: And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Sample Prayer: Unveil their blindness that hides righteousness.

Esteem, Sin

Scripture:

Sample Prayer: Give them a distaste for sin.

Desire, Godly

Scripture:

Sample Prayer: Replace their lusts with a genuine desire to know God.

Wittness, Good

Scripture:

Sample Prayer: Expose the futility of their best effort by showing them true Christianity.

2 Tim 2:26 Protection

Scripture: ...and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

Sample Prayer: Let them see the trap they are in and grant desire to get out.

Eph 2:2 Life, New

Scripture: ...in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

Sample Prayer:

Rom 8:1 Guilty

Scripture: Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Sample Prayer: Set them free by from the Law of sin and death.

Heb 2:15 Bondage

Scripture: ...and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death

Eph 3:12 Pray

Scripture: In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.

Sample Prayer: Confirm the freedom and confidence they can have to approach You.

2 Cor 5:21 Hope

Scripture: God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Sample Prayer: Build desire within them to be reconciled.

Acts 17:27 Holiness, Taste for

Scripture: God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

Sample Prayer: Reveal to them that you are not far off.

1 Tim 2:4 Understanding

Scripture: ...who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Sample Prayer: This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Witness, Praying

Scripture:

Sample Prayer: Place them upon the mind and hearts of Christians who will pray.

Scripture comes from the Holy Bible, New International Version; (c)1978 by New York International Bible Society

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