- God is not willing that this person (name the person) perish,
but that he or she comes to repentance - 2 Peter 3:9.
- It is God's will that he or she (name the person) be saved and comes to a
knowledge of truth - 1 Timothy 2:4.
- This is the confidence that I have in Him, that if I ask anything
according to His will, He hears me. And I know that if He hears me, whatever I
ask, I know that I have the petitions that I have asked of Him. I ask for him
or her (name the person) to be saved, to come to repentance, and to come to a
knowledge of the truth that can set him or her free - 1 John 5:14,15.
- If it is a relative: I believe that I and all of my household will be
saved - Acts 16:31.
- I realize that I am not in a battle with flesh and blood, but I am
contending against demonic powers, wicked spirits in the heavenly sphere, who
are trying to influence and control the person I am praying for - Ephesians
6:12. Jesus said in Luke 10:19, "I give you authority and power over all the
power of the enemy and nothing shall in any way harm me."
Whatever I
bind on earth is bound in the heavenly realm, and whatever I loose on earth is
loosed in the heavenly realm - Matthew 18:18.
- Right now I bind the god of this world (Satan) who has blinded their eyes
to the truth of the gospel, and I loose the light of the gospel to shine on
them and open their eyes - 2 Corinthians 4:3,4.
- I pray that the eyes of their understanding would be opened to know the
hope of their calling - Ephesians 1:18.
- Lord, open their eyes to know You; open their understanding that they can
understand the scriptures - Luke 24:31,45.
- I pray for laborers to be sent into their path from the Lord of the
harvest - Matthew 9:37,38.
- I believe that I receive the answers to these scriptural prayers - Mark
11:24.
- Lord, You watch over Your Word to perform it - Jeremiah 1:12.