PRAYING for lost souls is more difficult than praying for our personal needs. In praying for someone to be saved we usually pray: "God, please save so-and-so." However, praying for someone's salvation involves specific requests and our intercession becomes effective.
Ask God to sanctify the person. God sanctifies or "sets apart" a person for salvation before He saves him. The Bible teaches in 1peter 1:2 "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ..." and in 2Thessalonians 2:13,14 "God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth..."
Ask the Lord to bless them, "And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house." Luke 10:1-5 "For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them... Luke 9:56 Since it is ...the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance. Romans 2:4, it is of the up-most importance that we ask the Lord to bless him.
Now we can ask God to convict. Conviction basically means to convince of a fault, "not believing on Jesus" and this is the sin of which the Holy Spirit convicts." Of sin, because they believe not on me;" John 16:9 "The Holy Spirit will reprove the world of sin", read John 16:8-11
We need to ask the Lord to illuminate an individual's mind to the truth. 2Corinthians 4:3-4 says, "But if our gospel be 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:"
We should ask the Lord to sanctify, bless, convict and illuminate the mind of the individual being prayed for if we want them to be effectively freed from darkness.
Ask God to sanctify the person. God sanctifies or "sets apart" a person for salvation before He saves him. The Bible teaches in 1peter 1:2 "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ..." and in 2Thessalonians 2:13,14 "God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth..."
Ask the Lord to bless them, "And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house." Luke 10:1-5 "For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them... Luke 9:56 Since it is ...the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance. Romans 2:4, it is of the up-most importance that we ask the Lord to bless him.
Now we can ask God to convict. Conviction basically means to convince of a fault, "not believing on Jesus" and this is the sin of which the Holy Spirit convicts." Of sin, because they believe not on me;" John 16:9 "The Holy Spirit will reprove the world of sin", read John 16:8-11
We need to ask the Lord to illuminate an individual's mind to the truth. 2Corinthians 4:3-4 says, "But if our gospel be 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:"
We should ask the Lord to sanctify, bless, convict and illuminate the mind of the individual being prayed for if we want them to be effectively freed from darkness.