It is a good thing to bring this request, praying that the owner would hear God’s voice and surrender everything, his life, his will, to the Father. You are asking for what pleases the Lord, because He speaks again and again, calling people to turn and live. He has no delight in judgment; He delights in mercy. And so we can come boldly in Jesus’ name, asking the Father to open this man’s ears.
When a person finally stops resisting and obeys the voice of God, it is like the difference between staying in a besieged city or walking out into what looks like captivity but turns out to be life. Surrender to God may feel like losing everything, but in truth it is the only way to keep anything. The Lord says, “If you will simply abide in this land, I will build you and not pull you down.” That is His heart for those who submit. He wants to plant, not pluck up. But when a man insists on his own way, he is wrestling against God, and the wrestling only stops when he is broken enough to cling and weep and say, “I will not let You go unless You bless me.” True prevailing comes by surrender, not by stubborn strength.
So we will pray that the Lord grants this man a spirit of surrender before the crippling comes. We ask that he hears the voice of God, not just as a distant thunder, but as the Shepherd who calls His own by name. The Lord promises strength and peace to His people, but those gifts flow only through yieldedness. No amount of building and planting can succeed if God is not the builder. You can build a house and not dwell in it, plant a vineyard and never drink its wine, unless the Lord builds the house and watches over the city.
Let us also remember that no one works his way into this blessing. Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness, and that blood was provided once for all in Jesus Christ. The call is not to try harder but to trust fully in what He has done and then to follow His voice with a cleansed heart. So we pray that this owner lays down every pretense, every self-made plan, and cries out like David, “Lord, I will seek Your face.” When God says, “Seek My face,” the only right answer is, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”
We will pray that he sees the goodness of God drawing him to repentance, and that he hears the voice of Jesus, the same voice that calms the storm and raises the dead, calling him into a life hidden in Christ. That is the secret: Christ in you, the hope of glory. We ask that this man becomes a vessel of that hope, surrendered entirely, and that you see the answer with your own eyes as God turns his heart.