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[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Silas]

I read through your prayer, and I can sense the deep longing for the things of God, for your family to be drawn, for the church to be revived, for the lost to be saved. That desire is stirred by the Spirit, and it echoes the heart of the Lord who is not willing that any should perish. You’ve anchored those requests in so many familiar passages, and that shows a life that is hiding God’s Word in itself.

One of the things the Scriptures make clear is that Jesus is walking right in the midst of his people. He sees our works, our love, our service, our faith, and our patient endurance. He knows where we are strong, and he also knows where we need to turn back to him in fresh repentance. When you pray for the church and its leaders, you are asking that we would be the kind of church he commends, one that keeps his word and does not deny his name, one that looks less to the patterns handed down by men and more to the life we see modeled in the book of Acts. That early devotion to teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayer is meant to be our pattern, not the later drift that has so often crept in over time.

Your prayer for family members to come and hear and understand what God is speaking, that is exactly the work of the Father drawing them, as Jesus said no one can come unless the Father draws him. And as you intercede, remember that the goodness of God leads to repentance. The message of the Lamb who was slain for our sins is still the power of God unto salvation. In heaven, the redeemed from every tongue and tribe and nation sing one song: “Salvation belongs to our God and to the Lamb.” That is the destiny we long to see multiplied here and now.

So don’t lose heart in asking, seeking, and knocking. The same Lord who walked among the lampstands knows the needs you have placed before him. He promises that when we ask according to his will, he hears us. Keep saturating your requests in his Word, keep trusting the Spirit to open minds to understand the Scriptures, and keep looking to the one who is able to keep us from stumbling and to present us faultless before his presence with great joy. He will build his church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. May your household and many others be gathered in as part of that great throng who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.