Bible Verses To Pray For Your Unsaved Family
Do you find it challenging knowing what to pray for when it comes to your spiritually lost relatives? Below are some Bible verses to pray for your unsaved family members!
Praying For Our Unsaved Family Members
As a Christian, it can be so hard to watch our unsaved family members walk a life apart from God.
We grieve that they have not yet seen their need for a personal relationship with Jesus. Perhaps they even openly mock or deny even the idea that God exists.
To watch unsaved family live without hope for eternal life with Christ is heart-wrenching.
Many times, we try to pray for our family members and simply find ourselves at a loss for what to pray. We love them. We care for them. Yet we don’t know what to pray. Especially if we have been lifting them up in prayer for years, it can seem like our prayers have grown stale or rote in nature.
That is why we need help. The Holy Spirit intercedes with groanings too deep for words for us. (Romans 8:26) He can take our muddled prayers, our tired prayers, our silent heart cries and turn them into pleas before the throne of God.
If you are like me and struggle to find the words or the focus needed to keep praying for a spiritually lost loved one, then please join me in praying specific Scripture for them.
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Verses To Pray For Your Unsaved Family Members
As you pray, insert your unsaved family member’s name into the blank. Remember, while these verses are a great place to start, you can always find more verses to pray over each of your unsaved family members!
God’s Word is powerful and provides us with many new ways to pray. Let these verses serve as spring board of discovery into the joy of praying Scripture.
John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Dear Lord, Please help ______ find that you really are the way, the truth, and the life. Help her find You as the path that she needs, You as the truth she craves to know, and You as her source of eternal life. Please help ____ see the beauty of a faith-filled relationship with You. In Your Holy Name, Amen.
Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp for my feet,
a light on my path.
Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you that You provide light to our paths when we follow Your Word. Please open ____’s eyes to the light and truth that can only be found in the Bible. Break down the barriers that cloud him from understanding and accepting your Word as the light and truth he need in his life. In Jesus Name, Amen.
Ephesians 2:8-10
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Dear Jesus, Thank you that Your grace is a gift from God. Please allow _______ to see her need for your gift of grace. Help her see she cannot save herself through any actions of her own. Open her heart to understand that salvation from sins comes only through faith in Your death and resurrection.
I know you have a plan for her life and that You have prepared good works for her to complete. Please make Your grace alive to her so that she can live the rest of her life in service and honor to You. In Your Holy Name, Amen.
Ezekiel 11:19-20
“I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Then they will follow My decrees and be careful to keep My laws. They will be My people, and I will be their God.”
Dear God, Please give _____ an undivided heart for You. Fill ____ with a new spirit that can only be gained from knowing You fully and trusting You with his life. Place a new heart of flesh in him and remove all signs of his current heart of stone.
As ____ is transformed from the old heart and spirit to the new, undivided heart and spirit, please show him the joy that comes from following Your decrees and laws out of love for You. Please let him become one of Your people and create the desire in his heart to call You his God. In Your Precious Name, Amen.
Acts 4:12
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.
Dear Lord, Thank you for being the only way for us to receive salvation from the punishment for our sins. Please open ____’s heart to see the truth that You are the only way of salvation. Allow him to comprehend that the only way he will be saved for all eternity from the punishment for his sins will be by trusting the name and redeeming work of Jesus Christ. In Your Holy Name, Amen.
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Dear Lord, Thank you for demonstrating Your love for us, even when we were still sinners. Please open ____’s eyes to see your demonstrations of love all around her. Let her discover the joy that comes from knowing that You loved her even before she loved You. Allow her heart to accept that Christ died for her sins. Thank you for your amazing love! In Jesus Name, Amen.
Romans 8:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Dear Jesus, Thank you that nothing can separate us from the love of God because of Your work on the Cross. Please convince _____’s heart that neither death, life, angels, demons, present, future, powers, height, or depth or anything else in all of creation can separate him from God’s love. Let this conviction humble him and cause him to see his need for Your gift of eternal life. In Your Holy Name, Amen.
Revelations 3:20
“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with Me.”
Dear Jesus, Thank you for knocking at ______’s heart. Please help her to hear Your knock and open the door to respond to Your voice. Allow her to let You enter into a relationship with her. Please show her the joy that comes from knowing You personally and trusting You with her whole heart. I ask this in Your Holy Name, Amen.
Jeremiah 29:13
“You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.”
Dear God, Please cause _____ to seek You. Give her such a thirst and desire to know you that she can’t ignore the call to look for You. Show Yourself to _____ at every point of her search for You too. Let her open her heart, mind and soul to accept You when she does find You. In Your Name, Amen.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
Dear Jesus, Thank you for being faithful to forgive my sins and remove unrighteousness from my life. Please show ____ the need to confess and repent from the sins that keep him separated from You. Let him discover the faithfulness that You demonstrate to forgive his sins and to purify him from his unrighteousness. Your grace and forgiveness truly is amazing and I just ask that _____ can experience it too. In Your Holy Name, Amen.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Dear Lord, Thank you for dying for my sins and calling me to be crucified with You so that I can also live eternally with You. Please let ____ see that she also needs to be crucified with You so that she can live forever with You. Allow her to live by faith in You, the Savior of her soul who loves her and gave Yourself for her. Communicate to her the eternal joy and peace that comes from dying to herself to live for You. In Your Holy Name, Amen.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
Dear Jesus, Thank you that you don’t just remodel us when we believe in You but that you make us a whole and new creation. Please make _____ a new creation too. Show him that this old life can be gone. Give him a vision for the new life that You offer to all who will accept. In Your Holy Name, Amen.
1 John 5:4
For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
Dear God, Thank you that You offer _____ the chance to be born again. Please show her that this is the way to victory over all the trials she has faced in this world. Open her eyes in faith to see that You have overcome the world so that she too can overcome sin, death and the grave. In Your Holy Name, Amen.
John 10:7-9
Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through Me will be saved.”
Dear Jesus, Thank you for being the gate that leads to salvation. Please show _____ that he is indeed the lost sheep in need of the door You provide. Open his ears to hear You calling to him. Help ____ to listen for Your still small voice as his Shepherd. Let him accept his need to enter through You to be saved. In Your Holy Name, Amen.
Other Resources
Prayer is a powerful weapon. If you are looking for more resources to help build your prayer life, especially as you prayer for your unsaved family members, then I would highly recommend the books listed below!
Your Turn
My hope and prayer is that you have found these examples of praying Scriptures for your unsaved family truly helpful.
Have you ever prayed Scripture over unsaved family or friends in the past?
If you have, what were some Bible verses that you have prayed? Be sure to share in the comments below! 🙂
Thank you for stopping by!
69 Comments
stella
Thank you so much for sharing these scriptures. I have just prayed them over my husband and will continue. I learned a lot from the comment section as well. God bless you in Jesus name Amen.
Joanne Blight
Hi my name is Joanne I live in Adelaide at St kilda. I am the only Christian in my family I have 2 brothers and 1 sister. I am the oldest one. My brothers names are David, Steve and my sister is Debbie I have 4 children Amanda, Jason, Renea, Julie. My daughter Renea got water baptised and then walked away. I know that I am not the only parent to go though this. I have given my heart to jesus 13 yeass ago and I have been baptised for about the same it is the best choice I have ever made. May GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Kind regards Joanne
Patsy
Thank you for posting these prayers. It feels like I am praying with a friend.
I like praying II Timothy 2:25-26, knowing that my family members are being deceived and blinded by the devil:
“God grant them repentance, leading them to a knowledge of the truth, that they may come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.”
Cindy
RE: Scriptures for Unsaved Loved Ones (Children)
Jeremiah 31:16-17
“Thus says the Lord; “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded,” says the Lord, “and they shall come back from the land of the enemy. There is hope in your future,” says the Lord, “that your children shall come back to their own border.””
Melissa
Thank you so much! I have been praying for m
y husband for 20 years. The Messiah’s world does not return void and is powerful. Thank you, and may our Lord richly bless you!
Marti Belcher
Can you mail me a copy of this ? How to pray for your unsaved loved ones? Or refer me to a book that has this instruction in print? Greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Latoya
I pray Hebrews 8 vs 10 and 1st samuel 1vs 27 and 28…The first speaks to Gods word being engraved in the heart and mind of my loved one..the next is offering my loved one(my son) to God for his use!May God grant us our desires.
Mrs Vicky
Would like to share verses that saw me through until my husband accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour:
THE WORD OF GOD CAN ACCOMPLISH WHAT WE CAN’T:
Isaiah 55:11
So will My word be which goes out of My mouth;
It WILL NOT return to Me empty,
Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding in the purpose for which I sent it.
THE WORD OF GOD IS POWERFUL. THERE IS NOTHING MORE POWERFUL:
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is LIVING and ACTIVE, and SHARPER than any two-edged sword, even PENETRATING as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to JUDGE the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
WE DO OUR PART BY ENJOYING GOD, AND GOD DOES HIS PART:
Psalm 37:4
DELIGHT yourself IN the Lord;
And He will give you the desires of your heart.
MAY BLINDNESS LEAVE, MAY SCALES FALL:
Acts 9:17,18
So Ananias departed and entered the house, and after laying his hands on him said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you were coming, has sent me so that you may REGAIN YOUR SIGHT and BE FILLED with the Holy Spirit.” 18 And immediately something like fish SCALES FELL from his eyes, and he regained his sight, and he got up and was baptized;
WHAT I DON’T KNOW, GOD KNOWS (OUR WHENS, HOWS, WHYS, WHATS):
Jeremiah 33:3
‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
GOD WILL ANSWER SPEEDILY IF YOU ASK HIM TO PERSISTENTLY DAY AND NIGHT :
Luke 18:7-8a
…now, will God not bring about justice for His elect who CRY OUT TO HIM DAY AND NIGHT, and will He delay long for them? 8 I tell you that He will bring about justice for them QUICKLY.
Jen
Thank you Amber for the wonderful encouragement i found here.
Thank you Mrs Vicky, too, for the Bible verses.
Bless you both 100fold with what you have blessed others with.
Shantel
Agreed! Bless everyone who posted these scriptures for they are truly blessing me! Thank YOU ABBA!
Denise C. Fairfax
It’ s passed time to pray for our families that God would do miracles as we stand in the gap for our families salvation.
You have given us great tools to use the Word of God to pray that families across the world might turn to and be saved. 2nd Chronicles 7:14 If my people…
Thanks for your diligent work to help us stand in the gap for the nations of the world. John 3:16.
Ruth
Thank you very much.
Mejse Falkenberg
Help me
I’m Christian and my parents thinks they are atheists.
I have a deep deep love for them both and anxiety about the way they think.
I need them to be forgiven by the lord.
Soo i and my sister wouldn’t go to his kingdom alone.
Jesus is my savior.
But my parents are my rocks on earth
As a person with autism and separation anxiety disorder. I need to know that we will not be separated to that time
jess
Please how long did it take for your husband to be saved and how long and how often did you pray?
Toni Ferguson
I am trying to find words to say to family and friends to confess their sins and live for god before its to late.most get very defensive on sins and living for god most say i believe and thats enough.
Help
Stacy
Thank you so much for these prayers, which have helped get through a difficult time. I also pray Psalm 91 over my family members, both believers and non-believers.
Stacy
Melissa
Thank you!🙏🙏🙏🙏
Jhenelle Creighton
Thank you so much for sharing this sooooooo powerful!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Diane La Baw
“For I will pour out water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring, and My blessings on your descendants; …” Isaiah 44:3 I usually read and pray Isaiah 44:1-5
I know God is speaking of Israel through Isaiah, but I have accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior, He is my life. I know I have been grafted into His family so I see myself as one of His chosen people. So, I have prayed this prayer for my children for many years. I believe God has a plan, His ways are not my ways, and He works in ways I do not know. My faith in Him continues as I thank Him daily for what He is doing.
Thank you for Your scriptures on this site, I am writing them in my journal.
I also pray Isaiah 54: 13, Isaiah 49:25, Isaiah 29: 22-24
Love, Diane
Chris
Thank you for this article, Amber. And Diane La Baw, thank you for sharing your thoughts on those verses from Isaiah. Wonderful truths to use in praying for our children.
PattyBolinger32
Thanks for the prayer to use,and please Pray that my sisters daughter can get help for her drinking she is in the Hospital and dont have much hope on living the Dr said she may not even make it till tomorrow,Please God give her one more chance I pray.Please be with April and her Mom Peggy in Talassee Fla.
I love you my lord .Please Lord be with the family
Amen
Diane
Thank you for this! Just what I was looking for. To answer your question, here’s another scripture that I pray:
Proverbs 22:6 NKJV
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Cynthia Pereira
I am praying for my unsaved husband and daughter.
Patrick Prince Lewis
Great collection of verses, strengthening and pure. I can’t help but apply them snd desire my own family members find what they truly need and receive everlasting life. It’s never to late while we are all still here together. Tears soften and strengthen hard hearts to receive the free eternal gift of salvation. I pray my own family member’s find they can be spared and realize what true spiritual family is. That forever they can have more than just time, but a beautiful eternity and a truly happy ending beyond measure after a life of let downs and broken promises and loneliness and betrayal from ones they trusted most. Trusting in Jesus Christ will never leave them nor I wanting or restless, but satisfied.
Bett
Thank you. I’ve been praying for salvation for my family for many years, but now I have scripture to turn to so I don’t have to be concerned if my prayers are pleasing to God. I KNOW His Word (scripture) is powerful and pleasing to Him. All glory to Him.
Teresa Reynolds
Thank you!
Susan
I am praying for my unsaved daughter and brother
Who both have problems with Alcohol praying God’s words over their lifes
Thank you blessings
Mandy
Wonderful! thank you 🙏🏼
Praying for an unsaved friend who is palliative that God will intervene and she will respond.
Amen.
Patsy
II Timothy 2:25-26
God grant them repentance, leading them to a knowledge of the truth, that they may come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.
Susan
I am praying for my unsaved daughter and brother
Who both have problems with Alcohol praying God’s words over their lifes
Thank you blessings
Nancy
This is wonderful and so encouraging. I’m in the middle of a divorce but praying for my husband and children’s salvation. Praying God turns this all around. Is there a printable version?
Amber
Praying that your family can be restored and that your husband and children will come to saving relationship in Jesus. I do not have a printable version of this at this time but you are welcome to print this page for your personal use.
Mrs Vicky
Amen. Our God is a God of restoration; the God of the impossible. I have seen it and lived it.
Cindy
Mrs. Vicky
Please share with me, how long did you pray for your husband to be saved? I’m so excited to see your response!
Tony
Father, thank You that you are faithful to Yourself and to Your word. I pray that as Nancy delights herself in You that You will grant her the desires of her heart. It’s Your will that none should perish, that all should come to repentance, Holy Spirit, work on her families hearts and draw them to Jesus. I pray that her husband becomes the Godly, spirit filled husband, father and leader of his household that You have called him to be. In Jesus mighty name
Kim
Thank you for easy access to all these wonderful verses.I am praying for my husband, mother and stepmother and friend to come to salvation.
I will print the page off as you allow.
Continue your witness and journey to glorify God every day!
Shauna
This is exactly what I prayed for so thank you from the bottom of my heart. May God bless you for sharing His word and giving me peace by providing me with scripture and prayers for my loved one’s salvation 🙏🏻💓🕊️
Krista Brewer
I just finished watching Sid Roth, where this man was healed of cancer through 3 years of daily claiming scripture verses, so I thought about my parents, and how I should look up scripture verses on salvation. I’ve been praying for my parents for 20 -25 years with absolutely NOTHING to show for it. You have no IDEA how many times I’ve told God I wanted to give up praying for them (TOO many). But I can’t because, even though in my flesh, I don’t believe they’ll be saved (and I hope that’s not a lack of faith; it’s just how I feel praying for 25 years and not even seeing the SLIGHTEST change), they ARE still my parents and I dos still wanna see them saved. I might not believe it in my flesh, but if God wanted them saved, I KNOW He can do it!
I found this page and these scriptures to pray for them and that’s what I’m gonna start doing, daily (and obviously I believe the scriptures; there’s be no point in praying them if I didn’t), I told you, my human nature might not believe, but I KNOW God can save them if He wanted to. I’m gonna keep praying for that reason, but I’m just curious; even though I have no doubt whatsoever that God can save them, am I praying for nothing if I don’t believe in my flesh they’ll be saved?
Amber
Hello Krista, First off, thank you for asking such a wonderful honest question. After years of praying and not seeing results, it can become quite discouraging to our fleshly side. My best encouragement are some verses that I have been clinging to over the past several years as I have prayed for some of my own family members.
The first verse is Psalm 73:26, “My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” Our flesh will fail us. We grow weak often but remember that it isn’t in the strength of our own flesh but in God’s strength that we keep praying. In fact, the more we realize that it is out of our fleshly power to cause change, I think we are more likely to lean into God and trust Him and use the power that only He can provide us.
The second verse is Romans 8:26, “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.” I don’t know about you but after a while, I just feel like I am repeating words without even thinking about them. Or I just run out of words altogether some days. Being a prayer warrior for our unsaved family members certainly is not easy! When I get frustrated with my own lack of words, I rely on this Bible verse that promises that the Holy Spirit intercedes before our Heavenly Father for us. He uses groanings or pleas that are far deeper and richer than any words I could conjure up. When your heart grows heavy for your family, trust that the Holy Spirit is interceding before our loving Heavenly Father with words far better than we could ever dream of using.
Finally, when doubt creeps in (and it always does…), I recommend that you read the story from Mark 9:14-29. Once you have read this, I suggest that you echo the prayer of the father in this story, “I believe, help my unbelief.” This is prayer that every Christian should pray. We often find it easy to believe with our minds but not our hearts. When this is the case, let’s pray, “I believe, help my unbelief!”
I am praying for you and your parents. May they come to know the Lord and may you get to witness the beauty of answered prayers!
Chris
I appreciate your feeling, Krista. I have had similar thoughts while praying for lost family members and friends.
And Amber, thank you for your reply to Krista. It reached me too. I have placed the three verses you wrote about on my prayer outline. May the Lord God bless you both.
Gigi
Thank you for the scriptures which you all have shared.
These are the ones which I use apart from some of the above scriptures.
I have not being consistent in my prayers for there salvation but from today onwards I will.
Jeramiah 24:7
Act 26:18
Praise God 🙏 God bless you.
Gigi
Thank you so much Amber for taking your time to share all these scriptures. May God bless you and your family abundantly
Krista
As 2021 approaches , I see myself in some of these comments. Praying for loved ones and not seeing “results” by my standard(s) for what are results, one of the declarations I make before the Savior regarding my only child…a son, his wife and twin boys that I adore…and his family is this: Lord Jesus, thank You for the work you are doing in the lives of Scott, Alexa, Benjamin and Gabriel. I don’t see with my eyes or hear with my ears that their desire is to know and love You…to be saved and assured of their salvation. But I remember how You proclaimed, “My Father is always at His work to this very day, and I, too, am working (John 5:17 as He rebuked the Pharisees and angered them more claiming to be equal with
God). So I just thank You, Lord Jesus for Your Holy Spirit working to bring salvation to my family and I can continue in my life with the assurance You do not cease in this work I’ve placed before You. Amen
Sham D
I came across this page as I was trying to find scriptures on praying for/over my boyfriend. He is spiritual; however, he doesn’t like the notion of being assigned to one “religion” sort to speak. Moreover, he isn’t saved/hasn’t been baptized YET (trusting God). As for me, I’ve been raised in the church, saved, confessed Jesus as my personal savior, the whole 9-10 yards. Therefore, I find myself at times getting frustrated because I’m like Lord what is your purpose for him and I being together? Why did our paths cross? Granted, we all have choices in our lives and I chose to be with him even though I was hesitant in the beginning. But I’ve been praying, asking, and trusting God that he will change his heart and help him better understand not just God as a higher being but God as the Holy Trinity. Like some have mentioned, at times I do feel like my prayers aren’t working fast enough or that I could be waisting my time, but I am learning (through this blog) to prayer God’s word over him and have the faith to know God is going to move in him and that he will be willing and open to doing so. So, I’m very thankful and blessed I came across this and reading the prayers and comments are helping me to stay focus. Please continue to allow God to use you to help reach us. It is well needed and I shall continue to take heed to your wisdom/advice.
Thank you!
Amber
Hello Sham D,
Your story strikes close to my own heart and story. When I first met my future husband, he was an atheist. For a year, we talked and became friends (mostly over email since I was working in a different area for several months.) It was one of the most challenging seasons of my life. I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that God wanted me to speak the Gospel and to speak to truth to this young man. I knew that I was capable of getting feelings for him because he was a great guy and we shared many common interests. There was a season of our friendship that I set aside over an hour a day to pray Bible verses over him and to just plead with God for Him to soften the heart of this young man. Your story reminds me greatly of the season in my own life.
I don’t know where you are with your current boyfriend but I will say, please be careful.
The Bible warns that Christians should not be joined together with unbelievers. 2 Corinthians 6:14-16 specifically teaches, “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God.”
Please be careful. Guard your relationship with God first, even if that means breaking off a relationship with your boyfriend. Some suggestions I would give you is to be sure that you are seeking to please God first and always. If there is any aspect of your relationship that does not honor God first, then please stop that part of the relationship. God convicted me before I was even dating my husband to always keep myself pure. For starters, we were never physically intimate and also I was exceptionally guarded to let him have emotional attachment to me that I wanted only for my future spouse. Over the course of the year before my future husband became a Christian, we had a great friendship but it was not my main friendship.
Please stay in close fellowship with solid Christians who were constantly keeping me accountable. They would talk to me and help me to stay strong in my faith with God and remind me that no earthly relationship with a guy should come between me and God. Please find friends like that in your life and spend lots of time in God’s Word together. Please hold off from sharing yourself in a sexual, physical, or emotional way that you will later regret because it was not done in God’s timing. If you have already gone farther than you know God wants you to go, please seek forgiveness from God and stop the physical or sexual or emotional sins. Repent and make sure that you set all the boundaries necessary to not keep falling into temptation. (Yes, that is totally counter-culture and you will feel crazy but honoring God first is worth it.)
Do not compromise your Christian faith for your boyfriend. Instead, spend more time than ever developing your Christian walk with God. Learn about Christian apologetics so you can know why you believe what you believe. In your conversations with your boyfriend, keep coming back to Christ. Center your conversations around your love of Christ and what He did for you by dying for your sins on the cross. Looking back, my husband said one of the biggest things that convicted him during our first year of friendship was the fact that I did not make a compromise to indulge him because I was so focused on living for Christ. He said that while it was scary and weird to see someone so committed to Christ, it was also the reason he finally started to reconsider the idea of God and Christianity. Your life and your decisions and your actions will speak louder than any lecture. Just be sure that when you do “lecture” or share your beliefs that you life is lining up with what you speak. (In other words, be sure that if you say the Bible is God’s Word and needs to be studied, make sure that you are studying if daily often and well. Practice what you preach. 🙂 )
Your story weighs so heavy to me because I can hear what you are saying. You do have feelings for a young man. I understand how hard it can be to wait patiently on the Lord to intervene in the heart of someone who you care for so deeply. But I will also say that it is even more worth it to keep Christ first in your life. Even if you have to step back or step away from a relationship. Remember to always keep God first and remove any relationship-romantic or otherwise-that will draw you away from living a life fully committed to Christ. Do not commit to a man or a marriage that is not built first and foremost on a common faith in God. That will bring sorrow and heart break for both of you. Wait for the Lord. Keep praying. Pray more. Turn off TV or social media and spend as much time as possible praying and reading your Bible. Find strong Christians who can walk with you through this season and this relationship. I know it is hard but nothing is impossible with God.
God is faithful. I say this as someone who watched an atheist fight against God, against the truth of the Bible, against the tug of the Holy Spirit, against the evidence for the resurrection, against everything that is the Christian faith. Now, that same man is on fire for God. He finished a master’s degree in Biblical counseling this past year so he can help others who need Jesus. He daily studies Scripture with a passion for knowing God that blows me away. None of that would have happened had it not been for God’s faithfulness to walk with me and with Nick through that crazy difficult season.
Praying for you and for him. Stay faithful to God. In Christ’s Love, Amber
Mrs Vicky
Krista, don’t lose hope…
Before my husband started taking any notice in our God, my prayers were from my heart but there weren’t any signs that they were working. It made me think that they were either slow in reaching God or that the prayers themselves were not effective for some reason. As you may have heard said in business, ‘you cannot do the same thing over and over again and expect different results’. I was somehow reminded of this one day, and it suddenly struck me (maybe after a sermon I listened to or something; I can’t remember), that God likes us to pray His word back to Him. And we know the bible has verses for every situation. Specific verses with a certain sentence structure that bear a ‘wholesome’ and different overall meaning to prayers we pray from our mind, albeit with good intention. Our mind is limited in its thoughts and imagination, but God’s word is all encompassing and infallible. Have confidence, Krista, He heard you the first time! Press on… There’s always a reason why they aren’t immediately answered. Some verses to encourage you:
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. – 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. – Romans 12:12
Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints… – Ephesians 6:18
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. – Mat 6:6
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. – Colossians 4:2
“And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.” – Matthew 21:22
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. – 1 John 5:14
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. – 1 Peter 5:7
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. – Luke 18:1
Cindy
Krista Brewer
Change your mind! It is important what you believe when you pray.
Mark 11:24 “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”
If you’re having a hard time finding a way to believe this, just picture the first moment of their eternity without Jesus Christ.
Roderick Gerbatz
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Mrs Vicky
Do check out this article, Roderick. I am guessing you’re planning to start a prayer page?:
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Anna
Let my family and my friends be saved too. I pray daily for them.
Tessa
Thank you so much for this beautiful blog inspired by God! I wrote down the scriptures to pray over my family in my prayer notebook! At times like this, it is wonderful to read all these inspiring comments! God bless you!!
Amber
Thank you for sharing these encouraging words. So thankful we can all pray together at this time, even when we are not together with others. Praying God blesses you and your family!
Kim
Thank you, God, for leading me to your blog. Thank you for all your work. God bless.
Amanda
Thank you so much for this post. I need this. I will continue to use this.
Amber
So glad to hear this post helped. Thanks for stopping by!
Tabatha Hull
This list of Bible verses to pray for your loved ones is wonderful, Amber! Most of my family hasn’t come to Christ yet and these verses are just a helpful reminder that God hears our prayers for them. I have a book called Praying The Scriptures For Your Children which is the same idea. What better way to pray for them than with God’s Word Itself? Thank you for sharing!
Denice Kucera
Perfect, thank you so much
Amber
Thanks for stopping by!
Bola
Thank you so much for these prayer verses, Amber. May the Lord bless you as your ambitiously seek to glorify God daily. What a beautiful desire.
Grace
Thank you, Amber your website has helped me for what I was looking for, God bless U, dear!
Amber
So glad this was a blessing to you. Thank you for stopping by!
Angela
Thank you so much Amber, an amazing resource that you have obviously spent a lot of time seeking out- such a blessing.
God’s abundant blessings to you
Angela
Amber
Thank you Angela!
Andrea
This is a great resource! I love being able to pray the Word over my family!
Sherry Evanson
Thanks for sharing. All scripture is Dinine and inspired by God…Acts 2…the whole chapter. Romans 6….the whole chapter. Matthew 28: 18-20. Look up all scriptures that reference Christian Immersion which is Baptism. This is how we put on Christ and receive The Gift of the Holy Spirit.
Betty
Thank you. So much .really enjoyed.
Amber
Thanks for stopping by!
Sherry LeFlore
These are wonderful Amber! Thank you!
Amber
Thank you so much!