Salvation for my families

[Chrootartar]

Shalom I am the only one in my entire family who is born again. Could you please pray that God sends harvest workers and teachers for the Word of God to the ###, ###, and ### families—workers from whom they can accept and understand the Gospel—and that God grants grace and saves them from hell, in Jesus' name? Thank you very much! May God bless you, in Jesus' name!

 

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We rejoice with you that you have been born again and we stand with you in this holy burden for the salvation of your loved ones. It is a deep and godly sorrow to be the only believer in your family, yet it is also a great calling, for God has placed you as a light and a witness among them.

We hear your cry that God would send harvest workers and teachers whom these families can receive and understand, and that He would grant them grace to be saved from hell. This is fully according to the heart of God, for He desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth, 1 Timothy 2:4, and He is not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, 2 Peter 3:9.

Jesus Himself said the harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest, Matthew 9:37-38. We join you in that exact prayer, asking the Lord to send faithful, Spirit filled workers across the path of each of these families, those who will speak the Gospel with clarity and love in a way they can hear and understand. For how will they call on him in whom they have not believed. How will they believe in him whom they have not heard. How will they hear without a preacher, Romans 10:14. We pray that God will open their ears and soften their hearts, removing the veil that the god of this world has cast over the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ might shine on them, 2 Corinthians 4:4.

We are so thankful you asked this in the name of Jesus, for there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved, Acts 4:12, and Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me, John 14:6. It is only by believing in Him, that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved, Romans 10:9, that any of us are saved from sin and hell and receive eternal life, for God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life, John 3:16.

We pray together now for these precious families.

Father in heaven, we come before Your throne of grace in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. We thank You for our brother or sister who has been born again by Your mercy, and we lift up these three families who are still lost and without You. Lord, have mercy on them. Pour out Your grace upon them and grant them repentance and faith. Send laborers into their lives, teachers of Your Word who will speak truth with gentleness and with power, whom they will trust and understand. Open their hearts as You opened Lydia's heart to listen, and give them a new heart and put a new spirit within them, Ezekiel 36:26. Remove the blindness and hardness, and cause them to see their need for a Savior and to call upon the name of Jesus and be saved. Use our dear fellow believer as a continual witness, giving him or her boldness, patience, and love, that his or her life may adorn the Gospel. We ask that You will save them completely, delivering them from darkness and from the judgment to come, and bringing them into Your kingdom. We trust Your perfect timing and Your unfailing love. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

We encourage you to continue steadfast in prayer and in love, for the prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective, James 5:16. Continue to live out your faith before them with quiet strength and grace, and to be ready always to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear, 1 Peter 3:15. God hears your intercession and He is faithful. Keep sowing the seed of the Word, keep loving them, and trust the Lord of the harvest to bring the increase in His time.

 

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We hear how heavy it is to be the only one in your extended family who knows Jesus, and how much love you carry for the ###, ### and ### families. Thank you for bringing them to us so we can stand with you. Wanting them to know the grace you have found and to be spared is a reflection of God's own heart for them.

We join you in asking the Lord to send harvest workers and teachers they can truly hear and trust, people whose lives and words will make the gospel clear to them in a way they can receive. We know you cannot carry this burden alone, and you do not have to. We can live faithfully before our families and speak when God opens the door, but the deep work of opening eyes and changing hearts belongs to Him. He is patient and merciful as He draws people to Himself.

One thing that often helps when the concern feels so large is to keep bringing each name before the Lord individually, praying not only for them but for the specific workers God might place in their lives, and then continuing to walk with quiet consistency and love at home, trusting God with the timing and the outcome.

Father, we lift the ###, ### and ### families to You. Please send faithful workers to them and grant them grace to understand and receive Your gift of salvation in Christ. Strengthen and encourage the one who already believes, to remain hopeful and steady in love while You work. We ask this in Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

We join you in this burden before the Lord of the Harvest, giving thanks that He has set His grace upon you and made you to know Christ, and now stirring your heart to plead for those of your own household.

We pray with you that the Lord of the Harvest, whose harvest truly is plenteous but the laborers are few, will send forth laborers into these families you have named, faithful harvest workers and teachers of the Word whom they can hear and understand, who will sow the seed with a view to harvest and speak plainly the Gospel of salvation by divine grace through faith in Christ Jesus.

We ask that God would grant them more than a desire to be delivered from the pit of hell, but a true sight of sin and a love of holiness, for salvation is purification from evil and the kingdom of God within. May He teach them to look unto Christ and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for beside Him there is none else. The Scripture says, Whoever believes on Him shall not be ashamed. That is the simple way of salvation, to trust in the Person whom God has laid in Zion for a foundation, to depend upon Him without fear as to present and eternal salvation.

We pray that the fields which are already white for harvest in your families may be reaped with joy, that those who have been sown in tears may yet rejoice before Him according to the joy in harvest, and that you may have a shout of harvest home in your own house. Pray much for them with earnest faith, and look for the former and latter rain in its season, for our joy in harvest is the hope of being at rest with all the saints and forever with the Lord.

May the Lord keep you steadfast as you witness to them, relinquishing nothing of the truth, and may He in His mercy grant repentance and faith to each one, that they may believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. We will continue to plead that His Word may have free course among your loved ones and be glorified, in Jesus name.

 

[usha rani]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name.