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How to Pray for the Lost
Use these prayers based on Bible verses to pray for the people
you give the book of John to.
Dear God,
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Please open a door for the message of Christ (Col. 4:3).
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Give me the courage to speak your word with great boldness (Acts 4:29). Help me never be ashamed of the gospel (Rom. 1:16).
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Open _____'s spiritual eyes, so they may see the light of the good news of the glory of Christ (2 Cor. 4:4).
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Let your Word fall on the good soil of a receptive heart (Luke 8:11-15).
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Help me instruct them gently. Grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, that they come to their senses—out of the snare of the devil (2 Tim. 2:25-26).
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Help me always be prepared to give an answer for the hope I have (1 Pet. 3:15).
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Help me be a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed and who correctly teaches the word of truth (2 Tim. 2:15).
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Help ____ realize that no one comes to the Father except through Jesus (John 14:6).
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Please send me as a worker into your harvest field (Matt. 9:38). Help me make disciples (Matt. 28:19).
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I pray for the power of the Holy Spirit to be your witness (Acts 1:8). May he convict ____ of their sin (John 16:8).
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Please draw _____ to your Son, so he can raise them up on the last day (John 6:44). Grant ____ the ability to come to Jesus (John 6:65).
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Help ____ know the truth and let the truth set them free (John 8:32).