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When you pray for your family and friends begin by focusing on their spiritual needs. Ask the Lord to give them a hunger and thirst for righteousness. Ask Him to strengthen them with power in their inner being and to clothe them with the whole armor of God. Ask Him to make them sensitive to the Spirit. Ask Him to give them ears to hear, a heart to receive the word, a will to obey and faith to act. Ask Him to conform them to the image of Christ and to fulfill His purpose in their lives. According to Paul that’s what Epaphras did.
“[He] prays constantly and earnestly for you, that you may become mature Christians, and may fulfill God’s will for you.”
— Colossians 4:12 (J.B. Phillips)
Lord, help us to pray constantly and earnestly for each other. Amen.