We join you together in the name of Jesus and thank our Heavenly Father for the cross and for His holy Son who suffered for all who believe. We praise His holy name with you and we agree that He hears our prayers when we come together in one accord, for Jesus said in Matthew 18:19 that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by our Father who is in heaven.
We are encouraged by your intercession for this man who rented his flat to you. You rightly remember that the Lord knows the plans He has for us, as it is written in Jeremiah 29:11, and that His thoughts are far greater than ours as written in Isaiah 55:8-9. We lift him up with you and ask the Lord to make His holy plan for his life unmistakably clear and to open his eyes to his true identity in Christ.
Scripture tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:17 that if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, and in 1 Peter 2:9 that we are a chosen people in Him. We pray with you that any false identity he has adopted through sinful relationships and activities will be exposed by the light of the gospel. When we stray from the narrow path to follow our own desires we walk toward destruction, for Jesus said in Matthew 7:13-14 that narrow is the gate and restricted is the way that leads to life. We ask the Father to break his stony heart and give him a new heart and a new spirit as promised in Ezekiel 36:26, and to give him courage to follow that narrow way, for God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power, love, and self-control in 2 Timothy 1:7.
We also agree with you concerning ungodly influences, including those in his household, and the evil woman in his life. The Word warns us plainly in 1 Corinthians 15:33 that evil companionships corrupt good morals and in 2 Corinthians 6:14 not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, and in 2 Corinthians 6:17 to come out from among them and be separate. We pray that the Lord will separate him from every controlling, hateful and sinful entanglement where he is being blackmailed and where even his life may be in danger. If this relationship involves sexual immorality outside of marriage, we must speak the truth in love that such fornication or adultery is sin before God, for the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord in 1 Corinthians 6:18, and we are commanded to flee sexual immorality. God ordained marriage as a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman to reflect Christ and the church, and any courtship should be with the goal of a godly marriage to another believer in Christ, not a sinful liaison that brings bondage and danger. The evil woman described in Proverbs 5:3-5 leads down to death, and we pray he will have understanding to depart from evil and to fear the holy name of the Lord, for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom in Proverbs 9:10.
We rebuke the deception of the enemy that has blinded his eyes and the power of sin that has hardened his heart, and we stand on the promise that if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed in John 8:36, and that we are to submit ourselves to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from us in James 4:7.
So we pray together, Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your mercy and for the blood of Jesus that cleanses from all sin. We bring this man before Your throne of grace and ask You to open his eyes, soften his heart, and give him ears to hear Your voice. Break the stony heart and give him a heart of flesh that fears Your holy name and hates evil. Reveal to him the depth of Your love and the emptiness and danger of the sinful relationships he has entered into. Deliver him from every ungodly influence and from the control and blackmail of the evil woman and any others who would harm him. Protect his life from danger and set him on the narrow path that leads to life. Grant him repentance and faith to turn from fornication and every sin and to walk in newness of life as a new creation in Christ. Surround him with godly counsel and believers who will speak truth, and if it is Your will for him to marry, lead him to a godly wife who loves You, that his marriage may honor You. We ask that You give our brother and sister who is interceding continued boldness and love to pray and to speak truth with grace. We ask all this in the powerful and only saving name of Jesus Christ, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved in Acts 4:12, amen.