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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