09/20/2025
Do you have someone on your heart who doesn’t yet know Jesus? Write their initials in the comments—I’ll pray with you.
In my prayer journal, I keep these Scriptures as a guide to pray for those I long to see come to know Him.
2 Peter 3:9 is a great place to start, reminding us that God desires to save anyone who will come to Him:
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”
Colossians 1:13-14 reminds us that what we’re asking Him to do for others, He first did for us:
“He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.”
I also pray the truth of 2 Corinthians 4:3-5 and Acts 26:18 and have seen these fulfilled in the lives of those I love:
“But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake.” – 2 Corinthians 4:3-5
“Open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.” – Acts 26:18
Finally, 1 John 5:14-15 assures us of confidence when we pray according to God’s will:
“Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.”
Save these verses to use in your prayer time.
