We join with you in this burden and we agree together before the Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus for this man who once rented his flat to you. We thank God that you have come with a heart of intercession and not condemnation, for it is God's desire that all should come to repentance, 2 Peter 3:9.
We hear your cry for his deliverance and we affirm the biblical truths you have prayed. You have rightly seen that when a person strays from the narrow path and follows his own desires he adopts a false identity. The Word tells us, Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new, 2 Corinthians 5:17. Any identity built on sinful relationships or activities, whether it be fornication, adultery, or homosexuality, is false because God created us male and female in His image, Genesis 1:27, and calls us to find our identity as children of God through faith in Christ. The scriptures are clear that sexual immorality in all its forms keeps us from God's best, Don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God's Kingdom. Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God's Kingdom, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, but the very next verse gives hope, Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God, 1 Corinthians 6:11. There is washing and deliverance in Jesus.
You prayed for his stony heart to be broken and softened and we claim the promise, I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh, Ezekiel 36:26. Only God can do this work, and we pray He will give this man courage to choose the narrow way, for narrow is the gate and restricted is the way that leads to life. Few are those who find it, Matthew 7:14. We also join you in praying that he will be separated from ungodly influences, even those in his own household, for the Word warns, Don't be deceived. Evil companionships corrupt good morals, 1 Corinthians 15:33, and, Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord, 2 Corinthians 6:17. If he is entangled with an evil woman, we know the scriptures warn that the adulteress hunts for the precious life, Proverbs 6:26, and her ways lead down to death, Proverbs 5:5. Sex before or outside of marriage as God ordained between one man and one woman in lifelong marriage is fornication or adultery and must be repented of and forsaken. We pray he will see these relationships as you described, controlling, hateful, and even dangerous, and that he will fear the Lord, for The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom, Proverbs 9:10, and that holy fear will cause him to depart from evil, Proverbs 16:6.
We lift him up now together.
Heavenly Father, we thank You for the cross and for Your holy Son Jesus who suffered for all who believe. We come into agreement in Jesus' name for this man whom You know and love. Lord, open his eyes to see the clear and unmistakable truth of who he is in Christ and expose the lie of the false identity he has embraced. Break his stony heart, give him a new heart of flesh, and give him courage to follow You on the narrow path. By Your power set him free, for If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed, John 8:36. Separate him from every ungodly influence and from the evil woman and any controlling and blackmailing relationships that endanger his life. Surround him with Your protection, for The angel of Yahweh encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them, Psalm 34:7, and bring him to genuine repentance so that he may confess his sins and be forgiven, If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, 1 John 1:9. Teach him to fear Your holy name and to depart from evil, and lead him into Your perfect plan for his life, for we know the plans You have for us are for peace and not for evil, to give hope and a future, Jeremiah 29:11. We ask this in the powerful and only saving name of Jesus, for there is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved, Acts 4:12. Amen.
We encourage you to continue to stand in the gap for him with love and truth, speaking the truth in love, Ephesians 4:15, and not condoning what God calls sin, but showing the grace that delivers from it. Keep praying with faith, for The effective, earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results, James 5:16, and trust that God's thoughts are higher than ours, Isaiah 55:8-9, and He is able to do far more than we ask.