I’m looking forward to this weekend with everyone. Last year at the prayer weekend I gave out a booklet with some helps for praying. I’ll give out one again this year, and I wanted to post some of the contents here to help get prayer juices flowing.
Here’s a list I put together a few years ago of scriptures which help us pray for those in our lives who don’t yet know the Lord.
How to Pray for Someone to Be Saved (In no particular order…)
Ask God to have mercy on them
Romans 9:10
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
Titus 3:5-7
…not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Ask God to turn them to Himself
Psalm 80:3
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Deuteronomy 30:10
…if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Pray for the person to believe the gospel
Acts 11:21
And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
Ask God to open their heart
Acts 16:14
Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul.
Ask God to remove the veil that hides Christ from them
2 Corinthians 3:16
…when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Ask God to reveal Himself to the person
Galatians 1:15-16
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,
Luke 10:22
All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
Ask God to open their eyes
Psalm 146:8
The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; The LORD raises those who are bowed down; The LORD loves the righteous.
Acts 26:18
…I now send you, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
John 9:39
And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.”
Ask God to give them an inner vision of Christ’s Glory
2 Corinthians 4:1-6
Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Pray for them to receive Jesus
John 1:12-13
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Ask God to awaken them spiritually
Ephesians 5:14
…”Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”
Ask God to make them alive, that they would be born again.
Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
James 1:18
Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
Pray for them to receive Jesus
John 1:12-13
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Ask God to turn them to Himself
Psalm 80:3
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Deuteronomy 30:10
…if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Ask God to awaken them spiritually
Ephesians 5:14
…”Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”