Yesterday, I began a week long fast. My wife and I and the wife of the man we are praying for began this fast in efforts to tune draw nearer to the Lord as we earnestly seek Him and pray for the salvation of a man I'll call K. K doesn't know Jesus as his Lord and Savior and K is lost and has so many things in his life that keep him busy.
Lord Jesus, I pray for the soul of K. I pray for his heart to be softened and for a reality check to come into his life. Place a situation in his life that might cause him to look at eternity and put things into proper perspective for him. I pray for his heart to be broken over the sin in his life and for Your Word and truth to cause him to fall to his knees and seek You for forgiveness. I pray for him to become the man that you created him to be. I pray for him to not only come to know you, but to fall in love with you and to on fire with sharing you with his family and friends. I pray that he becomes the leader of the home and leads his wife and children to know You more.
I know Lord, that apart from you this will never happen. I know that his wife, nor myself and my wife, have the power to save him. Your Word tells us to seek you first, to seek you with all of our hearts, and so we are doing that. We have given up food during the daylight hours so that we might be drawn to pray and sacrifice those things for his salvation. We pray for him to let go of hurts and bad habits and to let you reign in his life. I pray for him to completely surrender to you. Use me or my wife in any way. Help me to humble myself before You and give all of my baggage to You as well. Lord, you know my heart. Forgive me of my fleshly, selfish ways. Lead me in the way You would have me go.
In Jesus name...AMEN!
