SPEAKER_00: This is day 18 of our 21 days of prayer.
SPEAKER_00: And today we are specifically asking God to give us hearts for the lost.
SPEAKER_00: Luke 19, 10 says, For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.
SPEAKER_00: Let's pray.
SPEAKER_00: Dear Heavenly Father, today I thank you for pursuing me when I was lost.
SPEAKER_00: Before I ever sought you, you sought me.
SPEAKER_00: Before I ever loved you, you loved me.
SPEAKER_00: I thank you for sending Jesus Christ to seek and to save sinners like myself.
SPEAKER_00: God, I thank you that your grace reached into my life, opened my eyes to the gospel, and offered me forgiveness through the cross.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I never want to lose the wonder of my own salvation.
SPEAKER_00: Remind me today of who I once was apart from Christ.
SPEAKER_00: I was lost, but you found me.
SPEAKER_00: I was dead in my sins, but you gave me life.
SPEAKER_00: I was separated from you, but through Jesus I've been adopted into your family.
SPEAKER_00: And I thank you for your amazing grace.
SPEAKER_00: Father, because you love the lost, give me a heart that loves the lost as well.
SPEAKER_00: Would you break my heart for people who are living without the hope of Jesus?
SPEAKER_00: Help me to see them as precious people created in your image and deeply loved by you.
SPEAKER_00: Forgive me for becoming comfortable while people around me are far from Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Forgive me for remaining silent when you have called me to speak.
SPEAKER_00: Forgive me for allowing fear, busyness, or indifference to keep me from sharing the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, would you replace my fear with faith?
SPEAKER_00: Replace my hesitation with compassion for others.
SPEAKER_00: Replace my comfort with a burden for lost souls.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus, you said the fields are white for harvest.
SPEAKER_00: Would you open my eyes to opportunities that you place before me every day?
SPEAKER_00: Help me to recognize the people you are already preparing to hear the good news.
SPEAKER_00: Would you give me wisdom to know when to speak and what to say?
SPEAKER_00: Help my conversations be full of grace and truth.
SPEAKER_00: May my life reflect the love, the holiness, and the compassion of Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Father, today I specifically lift up those who do not yet know you.
SPEAKER_00: I pray for family members who are far from Christ.
SPEAKER_00: I pray for friends who have rejected the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: I pray for co-workers who have never surrendered to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: I pray for neighbors who are searching for hope in the wrong places.
SPEAKER_00: I pray for students, teachers, business owners, first responders, and community leaders who need the saving grace of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, you know every name, you know every heart.
SPEAKER_00: Draw them to yourself, convict them of sin.
SPEAKER_00: Open their eyes to the truth of the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: Remove the blindness that keeps them from seeing the beauty of Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Replace hearts of stone with hearts of flesh.
SPEAKER_00: May they come to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Father, I also pray for those who have wandered away from you.
SPEAKER_00: Would you bring prodigal sons and daughters home?
SPEAKER_00: Pursue them with your love and with your word.
SPEAKER_00: God, would you use your word to awaken their hearts?
SPEAKER_00: Surround them with believers who will lovingly point them back to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: May they discover again the joy of walking with you.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, help me to become intentional in praying for the lost.
SPEAKER_00: Remind me daily to pray for specific people by name.
SPEAKER_00: Help me to faithfully invite others to church.
SPEAKER_00: Help me to share my testimony and what you have done in me.
SPEAKER_00: Help me explain the gospel clearly.
SPEAKER_00: Would you give me courage to speak about Jesus, trusting that your spirit is the one who changes hearts?
SPEAKER_00: Father, remind me that salvation belongs to you, that I cannot save anyone, I cannot argue anyone into your kingdom, but I can faithfully plant seeds.
SPEAKER_00: I can faithfully share your word.
SPEAKER_00: I can faithfully tell others about Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And I can trust you to bring the growth.
SPEAKER_00: So, Lord, may Forward Church be known as a church that passionately reaches people with the gospel of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Never allow us to become inward focused.
SPEAKER_00: Give us a burden for those who are not yet here.
SPEAKER_00: May every ministry, every service, every outreach, every act of kindness point people to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Help us to faithfully fulfill the great commission of making disciples who make disciples.
SPEAKER_00: Father, would you give us opportunities to share the gospel throughout our community and around the world?
SPEAKER_00: I pray that you would raise up missionaries, raise up church planters, raise up evangelists, raise up faithful witnesses who will boldly proclaim that Jesus is Lord and begin that work in me.
SPEAKER_00: Use my life for your kingdom.
SPEAKER_00: May people come to know Christ because I am willing to pray, love, invite, and share the hope that I've found in Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Lord Jesus, you left the 99 to seek that one who was lost.
SPEAKER_00: I pray you'd give me that same heart.
SPEAKER_00: May I rejoice every time someone comes to faith in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: May I celebrate every baptism as a reminder that you are still saving people today.
SPEAKER_00: And may I never forget that heaven itself rejoices over one sinner who repents.
SPEAKER_00: So, Father, today I surrender myself once again to your mission.
SPEAKER_00: Wherever you send me, I will go.
SPEAKER_00: What you ask me to say, I will say.
SPEAKER_00: Who you call me to love, I will love.
SPEAKER_00: Help me to live every day with eternity in view.
SPEAKER_00: May my greatest desire be that more people would know Jesus, worship Jesus, and spend eternity with him.
SPEAKER_00: And it's in the saving and powerful name of Jesus that I pray all of these things.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Well, ask the Lord to give you specific names of people to pray for today, and then pray for them by name.