Prayers for Friends Challenge Day 2

Hey there! It’s Day 2 of our prayer challenge, and today’s topic is a super critical one.

If you’re like most Christians, you probably have some friends who know Christ as their Savior, and others who don’t. Let’s spend some time today praying the Scriptures for the salvation of friends who don’t know the Lord, and for the spiritual growth of friends who do.

Do you have a friend who doesn’t yet know your Jesus? They haven’t tasted and seen His goodness. They’ve never experienced fullness of joy in His presence. They’re unaware of His comfort. Unconcerned about His wisdom. Unmoved by His love.

I know there’s nothing in the whole wide world that you want more for your friend than to bask, as you do, in a relationship with her loving Father. Let’s lift this friend to the Lord, shall we? Praying the Scriptures on their behalf is the very best thing you can do for them.

Prayers For Your Friend’s Salvation

1. Pray that the Holy Spirit would convict your friend of their sin, and bring awareness of God’s righteousness and coming judgment apart from salvation. (John 16:8)
2. Pray that your friend wouldn’t ignore the truth. (Romans 1:18)
3. Ask God to rescue your friend from the kingdom of darkness and bring them to the kingdom of His Son. (Colossians 1:13)
4. Pray that God would open eyes that are blind to their sin and need for a Savior. (Acts 26:16-18)
5. Mourn with God that your friend is separate from Christ, excluded from the family of God, without hope and without God in the world. Then ask that in Christ Jesus those who are far away would be brought near by the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:12-13)
6. Pray that the truth would be united with faith in your friend’s heart. (Hebrews 4:2)
7. Ask God to lead your friend toward accepting His gift of eternal life in Christ Jesus. (Romans 6:23)
8. Recount back to God that He isn’t willing that any should perish; ask Him to lead your friend to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9, 1 Timothy 2:4)
9. Acknowledge that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and that no one comes to the Father except through Him. (John 14:6) Ask that your friend would confess their sins, claiming God’s promise of forgiveness and cleansing. (I John 1:9)
10. Pray that the gospel would be unveiled to your friend. Ask that God would defeat Satan, who has blinded your friend’s mind to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:3-4)

Now let’s pray for our friends who are believers, that they would grow in their faith and thrive spiritually.

Prayers for Your Friend’s Spiritual Growth

1. Ask the Lord to fill your friend with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God (Colossians 1:9-10).
2. Pray that your friend, speaking the truth in love, would grow up in every way into Christ who is the head of the Body, and that He would make the entire Body grow so that it builds itself up in love (Ephesians 4:16-17).
3. Ask God to help your friend be on guard so that she is not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from her own steadfastness, but would grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:17-18).
4. Acknowledge to the Lord that all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that your friend may be competent, equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Ask Him to give them a love for His Word, and a desire to meditate on it all day long (Psalm 119:97).
5. Claim God’s promised blessing upon your friend’s life as they refuse to walk in the counsel of the wicked, to stand in the way of sinners, or to sit in the seat of scoffers. Pray that your friend would delight in His law; ask Him to help them meditate on it day and night so that they may be like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, with leaves that don’t wither. Ask that in all that your friend does, they will prosper and flourish (Psalm 1:1-3).
6. Praise our great God for His divine power which has granted to your friend all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called them to His own glory and excellence. Thank Him for granting to them His precious and very great promises, so that through them they may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. Ask that His grace would empower your friend to supplement their faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. Remind the Lord of His truth that if these qualities grow in your friend’s life, they keep them from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:3-8).
7. Pray that God would help your friend to count it all joy when they meet trials of various kinds, knowing that the testing of their faith produces steadfastness. Ask that the Lord would let your friend’s steadfastness have its full effect, that they may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing (James 1:2-4).
8. Marvel over the truth that your friend has been crucified with Christ. Acknowledge to God that it is no longer your friend who lives, but Christ who lives in them. Ask that He would help them remember that the life they now live in the flesh they live by faith in the Son of God, who loved them and gave Himself for them. Pray that He would keep His grace ever before your friend, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose (Galatians 2:20-21). Implore the Lord to keep your friend from trying to muster up spiritual growth on their own, but to hold them always in the grasp of grace.

Dear Heavenly Father, Your grace amazes me. I pray that neither I nor my friend would ever get over the wonder of it. Thank You that even as we grow our whole lives long, we can never outgrow Your grace. I pray that You transform us into Your image with ever-increasing glory, until the day when our growth is complete and we finally see You face-to-face. It’s in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, that I pray. Amen.

Whew! That was a lot of powerful praying! Isn’t it beautiful to know that not a single word is empty when you pray the Scriptures? May His Word be powerful in our praying, and in our living!

We’re just getting started, so I hope your fervor is still fresh. Tomorrow we’ll lift up your Christian loved one, that they would understand and live out their identity in Christ. Can’t wait to see you then! 🙂

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