SCRIPTURES TO PRAY FOR THE LOST
Father, hear us as we ask You to rescue the lost from the domain of darkness and bring them into the kingdom of Your Son. You alone can draw and enable them. You alone can send Your Holy Spirit with power to convict them of the sin in their life and their need to repent and believe in Your truth--that Jesus is the only way to You, that He alone is the way, the truth and the life.
Father, we ask you to forgive the sins of the lost. We come in Jesus’ name to demolish the strongholds in their minds that those sins have allowed. We come in the authority of Jesus’ name to overcome the power of the enemy in their lives, to ask You to bind evil spirits away from them in the name of Jesus and the blood of the Lamb through the word of our testimony.
We come against the blinding of their minds and ask that You send someone to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light; help us to be willing to go. Father, don’t let their hearts be hardened, but open their hearts to receive Your truth. Rip away any veil that covers their hearts, any false teaching that confuses their minds. Help them to hear your Word with power and conviction as the Word of God and not the word of man. Give them understanding, so that Satan will not be able to steal Your Word from their hearts.
Father, help them see their need for a Savior, to know they must confess their sins, repent and believe--or they perish. Help them choose Your mercy and Your gift of faith, to believe with their hearts and confess with their mouths, Jesus is Lord. We ask in Your will, that not any should perish. In Jesus’ name, amen.
"For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." (2 Cor 10:3-5).
Father, in the name of Jesus, I plead that You will draw _______________ to Jesus Christ in true faith and repentance (John 6:44).
In the name of Jesus, I ask You, Father, to quicken ___________________ who is dead in sins and trespasses (Ephesians 2:1).
Father, I ask You to bind and remove Satan's work in _________________'s life and to open _______________'s eyes to the truth of the gospel (2 Corinthians 4:4).
Holy Spirit, I pray that You would convince _____________ that he/she is lost, separated from God, and headed to hell (Romans 3:23).
Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus, I pray that You would destroy any false ideas that _________________ has about Jesus Christ and salvation through Him (Proverbs 14:12).
Lord Jesus, I plead that You will seek out __________________ and save him/her from his/her sins and eternal condemnation (Luke 19:10).
Father, I pray that You will open ________________'s heart so that he/she will receive and believe the gospel (Acts 16:14).
Holy Spirit, I ask You through Your power and _____________'s circumstances to prepare him/her to hear and receive the Word of God (Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23).
Holy Spirit, I plead that ______________ will understand the gospel when it is presented to him/her so that the devil cannot snatch it away (Matthew 13: 5, 9).
Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus, I plead that the Word of God will take root in ____________'s life and bring about true salvation in ____________'s life (Matthew 13:6, 20-21).
Father, I ask that the pleasures of this world and the pressures of life will not choke the Word of God that has been sown into _______________'s life (Matthew 13:7, 22).
Father, I plead that You will deliver ________________ from the kingdom of darkness and place ________________ into the kingdom of Your dear Son (Colossians 1:13).
Father, I pray that _______________ will receive the free gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ the Lord (Romans 6:23).
Lord Jesus, I ask that _________________ will not trust in himself/herself, but that ________________ will completely trust in You as his/her Savior and Lord (Galatians 2:16).
