WEBVTT 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:04.240 This is day 18 of our 21 days of prayer. 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:08.560 And today we are specifically asking God to give us hearts for the lost. 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:14.880 Luke 19, 10 says, For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:16.320 Let's pray. 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:20.719 Dear Heavenly Father, today I thank you for pursuing me when I was lost. 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:23.359 Before I ever sought you, you sought me. 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:26.079 Before I ever loved you, you loved me. 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:31.280 I thank you for sending Jesus Christ to seek and to save sinners like myself. 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:37.759 God, I thank you that your grace reached into my life, opened my eyes to the gospel, and offered me forgiveness through the cross. 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.520 Lord, I never want to lose the wonder of my own salvation. 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:44.880 Remind me today of who I once was apart from Christ. 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:46.960 I was lost, but you found me. 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:49.679 I was dead in my sins, but you gave me life. 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:54.159 I was separated from you, but through Jesus I've been adopted into your family. 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:56.719 And I thank you for your amazing grace. 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:01.039 Father, because you love the lost, give me a heart that loves the lost as well. 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:04.959 Would you break my heart for people who are living without the hope of Jesus? 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:10.079 Help me to see them as precious people created in your image and deeply loved by you. 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:14.640 Forgive me for becoming comfortable while people around me are far from Christ. 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:18.560 Forgive me for remaining silent when you have called me to speak. 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:24.239 Forgive me for allowing fear, busyness, or indifference to keep me from sharing the gospel. 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:27.120 Lord, would you replace my fear with faith? 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:30.640 Replace my hesitation with compassion for others. 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:34.400 Replace my comfort with a burden for lost souls. 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:37.519 Jesus, you said the fields are white for harvest. 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:41.840 Would you open my eyes to opportunities that you place before me every day? 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:46.079 Help me to recognize the people you are already preparing to hear the good news. 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:50.079 Would you give me wisdom to know when to speak and what to say? 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:53.280 Help my conversations be full of grace and truth. 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:58.000 May my life reflect the love, the holiness, and the compassion of Christ. 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:02.239 Father, today I specifically lift up those who do not yet know you. 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:04.959 I pray for family members who are far from Christ. 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:07.599 I pray for friends who have rejected the gospel. 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:11.199 I pray for co-workers who have never surrendered to Jesus. 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:15.039 I pray for neighbors who are searching for hope in the wrong places. 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:23.120 I pray for students, teachers, business owners, first responders, and community leaders who need the saving grace of Jesus Christ. 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:26.240 Lord, you know every name, you know every heart. 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:29.360 Draw them to yourself, convict them of sin. 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:32.319 Open their eyes to the truth of the gospel. 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:36.000 Remove the blindness that keeps them from seeing the beauty of Christ. 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:38.719 Replace hearts of stone with hearts of flesh. 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.560 May they come to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:46.240 Father, I also pray for those who have wandered away from you. 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:48.960 Would you bring prodigal sons and daughters home? 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:51.759 Pursue them with your love and with your word. 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:54.800 God, would you use your word to awaken their hearts? 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:58.879 Surround them with believers who will lovingly point them back to Jesus. 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.879 May they discover again the joy of walking with you. 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:06.800 Lord, help me to become intentional in praying for the lost. 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:10.639 Remind me daily to pray for specific people by name. 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:13.520 Help me to faithfully invite others to church. 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:17.680 Help me to share my testimony and what you have done in me. 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:20.080 Help me explain the gospel clearly. 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:26.400 Would you give me courage to speak about Jesus, trusting that your spirit is the one who changes hearts? 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:35.280 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. 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:37.439 I can faithfully share your word. 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:41.599 I can faithfully tell others about Jesus. 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:44.560 And I can trust you to bring the growth. 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:49.680 So, Lord, may Forward Church be known as a church that passionately reaches people with the gospel of Jesus. 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:51.680 Never allow us to become inward focused. 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.479 Give us a burden for those who are not yet here. 00:03:54.800 --> 00:04:00.400 May every ministry, every service, every outreach, every act of kindness point people to Jesus. 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:05.520 Help us to faithfully fulfill the great commission of making disciples who make disciples. 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:11.120 Father, would you give us opportunities to share the gospel throughout our community and around the world? 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:23.120 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. 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:25.199 Use my life for your kingdom. 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:32.240 May people come to know Christ because I am willing to pray, love, invite, and share the hope that I've found in Jesus. 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:36.000 Lord Jesus, you left the 99 to seek that one who was lost. 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:38.000 I pray you'd give me that same heart. 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.360 May I rejoice every time someone comes to faith in Christ. 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:46.399 May I celebrate every baptism as a reminder that you are still saving people today. 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:50.959 And may I never forget that heaven itself rejoices over one sinner who repents. 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:54.720 So, Father, today I surrender myself once again to your mission. 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:56.959 Wherever you send me, I will go. 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:59.360 What you ask me to say, I will say. 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:01.759 Who you call me to love, I will love. 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:05.600 Help me to live every day with eternity in view. 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:11.920 May my greatest desire be that more people would know Jesus, worship Jesus, and spend eternity with him. 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:17.040 And it's in the saving and powerful name of Jesus that I pray all of these things. 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:18.000 Amen. 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:26.000 Well, ask the Lord to give you specific names of people to pray for today, and then pray for them by name.