How to Save Your Family by Prayer: Discovering God's Pattern of Witness

How to Save Your Family by Prayer: Discovering God's Pattern of Witness

Teaching by Prophet Lovy L. Elias · Watch on YouTube · 23 November 2020
14 min

Core Message

Stop trying to personally evangelize your unsaved family members and instead pray for God to send the specific witnesses He has assigned to them, because salvation requires external witness and confirmation, not self-proclamation.

Key Scripture

Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great: but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. — Luke 10:2 (KJV)

3 Key Takeaways

  1. Your transformed life is the light in your family, but light cannot witness for itself—you need God to send other laborers to confirm the transformation and bring your family members to faith.
  2. Stop praying for your unsaved family to be saved and start praying for God to send the laborers assigned to them, because the harvest is already ripe and your role is intercessory, not evangelistic.
  3. When family members reject your message, it is not demonic opposition or rebellion—it simply means you are not the assigned witness to them, and forcing yourself violates God's spiritual protocol of requiring two or three witnesses.

Prayer Focus

Pray for God to send the specific laborers and witnesses He has assigned to your unsaved family members, trusting that He will confirm through others what your transformed life demonstrates.

“Unless somebody bears witness of what happened to you on your behalf, no one is going to believe or want your Jesus.”

Topics

IntercessionTransformationKingdom PrinciplesRelationships

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