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#1,066: How to Pray for your Unsaved Family

August 28, 2024 • Loren Hicks

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Can I give you a word of encouragement? Your unsaved family members are on the mind of God. While He won’t force anyone to believe in Him, He is actively pursuing them through His Holy Spirit. In fact, scripture tells us this is the reason God has delayed the return of Christ.


Main Points:

1. First, let me encourage you to pray faithfully and consistently. Resist the temptation to give up. Don’t let the enemy convince you that your prayers do matter or that God is not listening. He is listening, He cares, and prayer is powerful.

2. Second, pray God will soften their hardened heart. Pray they will begin to have a spiritual hunger that would cause them to seek and search for God. 

3. Believe God will save them. The enemy of our soul will try to convince you that your unsaved family members will never be saved. We resist this temptation. Our faith is in a God who can save anyone. He loves your family. He sent His son Jesus to the cross to die as a sacrifice for their sins. Let’s believe that all things are possible through Jesus.


Today’s Scripture Verses:

2 Peter 3:9 - God is “patient, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”

Luke 19:10 - “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

1 Timothy 2:3-4 - “This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.” 

2 Corinthians 4:4 - “In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”

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