Prayer Team Help Needed: Praying for Strangers

[Ephesians4]

I feel like the Holy Spirit is impressing upon me to share that we all need to increase our intercessory prayer to include strangers that we encounter -- especially for their salvation.

The prayer time we have here on Foru.ms is great!

Maybe it's also time to add PROACTIVE prayer to our daily schedules in addition to reactive prayers. To speak in football terms, it's time to do some offensive prayer plays.

Some of the strangers we encounter may have NEVER had someone pray for their salvation. If we don't pray, who will? If we don't share the Good News, who will?

We need to pray for each person individually. Look at them and pray for them. Then move to the next person. (Rather than praying generically for the collective whole. Individual prayers are more powerful.)

For example:

- Go to a store? Pray for each person in line and everyone you see to have the Holy Spirit move in their hearts. Pray for each clerk and manager. Pray for opportunities to share Jesus with them.

- Watch TV? Pray for the salvation of each person you see, especially if you watch COPS, CourtTV, etc.

- Read the news? Pray for each person you read about, especially those in other countries and of other religions.

- Going to the mall, a park or the beach? Take a seat on a bench and pray for each person who passes by.

- Driving? Pray for each person you pass, especially at stoplights and in traffic.

- Reading a magazine? Pray for each model, celebrity, writer and publisher.

- Surfing the web? Pray for all who read each site and all the authors. Leave posts to share the plan of salvation.

- Going to the movies? Pray for each person seated there and all the actors and crew of the movie.

- Visit a hospital or nursing home? Pray individually for each person you pass by there. If you can, go into the rooms and pray with each person. Share the Good News about Jesus.

etc.

If you have any additional prayer suggestions, please post them.

We can post for prayer for certain strangers we encounter that really stick out in our memories, too!

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[torchbearer]

:hug: :hug: to my friend EPH4 who is looking ever so cool in her shades ;)

Yes, I agree wholeheartedly, it is Revival Time! If we have taken on the hearts of prayer warriors, let's not restrict it to the time we allocate but do daily intervention in all areas of our lives!

Let me share a story that occurred this week. In SA, you never ever give lifts to strangers. You barely stop at traffic lights on lonely roads because hijackings, murder and rape is so high (we have the highest world wide). I came to a traffic light on a lonely road on Monday (from a meeting) and at the corner of the road was an elderly lady (ploys are often used to get people to stop then the hi-jackers leap out of bushes). She came up to my window and asked for a lift into town. Normally, we keep windows up, doors locked and speed off. I looked in her eyes and said, yes get in quickly (then looked around to make sure no one was coming out of bushes). She got in.

She told me that her children woke her early in the morning to go and look for a job but she did not have taxi money (bus fare). The children were crying as there is no food and she did not want to cry in front of them. So she left to stand on the road in the hope that someone may come by.

I took her into town and to a place that I know helps people who have no education and need jobs. I then took her to a shop to get some basic food supplies (which I had to buy on credit as I had no cash on me except a 20). I offered to take her back to where I picked her up, but she said it would be fine, she'll take the taxi (buses). I gave her the 20.

During that time with her in the car, I took the opportunity to speak to her about God and also a shelter in her area run by a church that provides children with food during the day as well as fellowship. She didn't know about it and was glad to know. I gave her the directions.

So, yes, sometimes when we shouldn't do something or we don't want to due to whatever extenuating circumstances we are in ... BUT ... God has often put us in the path of another so that we can help them and witness!

Seek every opportunity!

Yes, I was late to work, but the lives of others were changed for the better that day and their prayers were answered!

God is a God of miracles. Things don't 'just happen by coincidence', God makes things happen for prayers to be answered - and sometimes, they aren't yours!

Thanks be to Jesus, who creates these opportunities!

[Catherineanne]

I feel like the Holy Spirit is impressing upon me to share that we all need to increase our intercessory prayer to include strangers that we encounter -- especially for their salvation.


Wonderful if you can do it. But a small reminder that one small, quiet prayer, said from the heart, is priceless.

On the other hand, attempting to spread the butter of our prayer life too thin risks creating a rather unpalatable sandwich. So quality, always, rather than quantity. And if you can manage both, then you are a better person than I. :)