Scriptures for Praying for the Lost

I wanted to share a list of verses Lee gave about a year ago to use in praying for the lost.

Pray for an inclination or a drawing by God to Jesus - John 6:44 "No man can come to Me except the Father draw him; and I will raise him up on the last day."

It is Your responsibility, God! They won't be saved unless You draw them!

Pray that the eyes of their heart will understand (no matter what their mind thinks!) -

2 Cor. 4:4-5 "But if our gospel is hid, it is hid to them that are lost. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."

All it takes is a flash of God's light in their heart for them to be convinced!

Pray that will be flooded with grace and faith - Eph. 2:8 "For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God."

If you brought me out, you will bring them out. Let them see every advancement of Your love to their life - don't let them be able to ignore it!

Pray that God would unite their hearts to fear Him. - Ps. 86:11 "Teach me Thy way, O Lord; I will walk in Thy truth; unite my heart to fear They name."

Pray the person will begin to acknowledge God in their life, in their speech, in their walk; that they will desire to become accountable to Him. A kingdom divided will not stand, so Lord unite their heart.

Pray they will find satisfaction with God, that He will fill them up with His joy, love…

Eph 3:16-19 "that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man: so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth: and to know the love of Christ, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God."

Nothing can live in a vacuum. Deliverance is not so much that something goes out but something goes in.  Fill them with the Holy Spirit, with power, with life, with peace that they be excited about living for Him. Keep them away from dead, boring legalistic people.

Pray that they will be filled with the Holy Spirit -

Eph 3:16 "That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man."

Eph. 1:17-19 "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to usward who believe, according to the working of His might power."

Pray that what they receive they will keep by the Holy Spirit. Pray they have an experiential knowledge of the love of God and the manifestation of His presence.

Pray that they would be fruitful - John 15:4-5 "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in Me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit, for without me ye can do nothing."

The physical measure of your abiding is your place in the body of Christ. There will be no fruit in your life to the depth God wants that does not come through fellowship - direct union with the body - Christian friends all up in your business! Pray that the body of Christ welcomes them in.

Pray that they would have the desire to glorify God's name and make their life count for Him -

2 Cor. 5:15 "And He died for all, that they who live should no longer live for themselves but for Him who died and rose again in their behalf."

Pray that they would take up God's cause in their lives.