Prayer and Evangelism

How can you pray for the work of evangelism?

Praying for yourself:

Jimmy Kinnaird has developed a useful prayer acrostic called “BOLDNESS” to help you prayerfully prepare yourself.

This is an awesome acronym and a helpful structure.

Here are some things I pray for:

• To live a consistent and holy attractive life.
• To be authentic and honest as I go through life’s ups and downs
• To sharpen my skills as an evangelist
• To have appropriate boldness and courage
• To have the eyes to see the opportunities and open doors for conversation
• To have frequent conversations with people.
• To taste the “Father’s Heart” for people who don’t know Him.

Praying for others:

For starters, I have a list of names of people that I pray for regularly.  Using names brings to mind faces of people that I know and love and are apart from the outrageous love of Christ. It moves beyond a nebulous “them” to my friends — its personal.

Jimmy Kinnaird has shared another useful acrostic called “HEART” to help you pray for your friends.

Here is what I pray for:

• To reveal Himself and draw my friends unto Himself.
• To open their eyes to see the emptiness of life without Him
• To open their eyes to see their need for forgiveness, to remove the confusion in their mind, to grasp the meaning of the cross.
• To help me see what He is doing in their life.
• To hear from God about how to engage them in conversation — sometimes God shares some information.

Let me ask you this?

Take a moment, write down the names of people you love who do not know Christ.  Spend time every day this week praying for them.

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