A Prayer for a Prodigal
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The heart of the lost is the very heart of God. There is probably nothing that moves God more to action than His love for lost people. You know the one. They are those that have left the house of the Father, denied Him and now live what the world calls a prodigal life. They are the people in our lives in the far country.
The very heart of God is for all of mankind to know Him intimately. A lot of us run from the loving Father. We run for a LOT of reasons. We run until we run out of ourselves. I want to encourage those of you that have a loved one that is considered a prodigal or living in backslidden condition in their heart from God. There is something you can do. I know that hopeless feeling. But, there is hope with Christ, always. We are not hopeless and without comfort. God is with us and He is with your prodigal person also. No matter where they are.
God has a way of using the defiance of the lost person as a weapon. God uses it to bring them back to Him.
The goodness of God draws men to repentance. Never forget that.
Here is a way to pray for the prodigal. Never forget prayer is a mighty, mighty weapon in your life.
Pray Over the Prodigal
1. Pray the Heavenly Father will parent the prodigal. Pray that the Father will protect them, discipline them and rescue them and draw them home.
2. Pray for famine. Pray that God will send famine into their life while they are away. Pray that they be in need. Pray that whatever they are trusting in will dry up. Pray they are disillusioned by what drew them away. Pray the novelty of sin wears off. Pray that they will find nothing but dissatisfaction with the circumstances of life they are in, the emptiness, that they will come to their wits end, there will be no more pleasure and no gratification in what they are doing and how they are living.
3. Pray for your own endurance. Pray to endure because you are not sure how long the wait will be.
4. Pray for homesickness. Pray that your prodigal long for relationship they had with you and with their family. Pray they are homesick for the Father God and church and that God remind them of good things they use to have with their family.
5. Pray he or she will come to their senses. Pray that the scales will fall off their eyes. Pray they realize something is wrong with their life. Pray for disillusion of the ungodly relationships and things they believe, pray for those ungodly relationships to dissolve and be severed, pray a hedge of thorns around them and all ungodly attachments leave them.
6. Pray that their eyes will open and that the scales will fall of their eyes. Pray that their eyes will be illuminated and see the glory of God to see His goodness and see and know the truth.
7. Pray for repentance. Pray that Father God give them the spirit of repentance and they turn from sin.
8. Pray the prodigal will have the ability to receive the grace of God and receive the Father’s blessing. Pray they realize that their sin is not too much for God and they can receive his love and healing and blessings of the Lord. Pray for an encounter with God to see their destiny. Pray for impartation of vision of their call and purpose that they will see their significance in Him.
Be encouraged my friend. God is faithful and He loves the backslider.