Practical Prayer Evangelism | Lausanne World Pulse Archives

Praying for the Lost Works
In 1993 I led a Bible study series with a group of twenty or so rather boisterous university students who asked to be taught about prayer. In the process we had a book for the prayer points. This book contained three columns: Request, Date Entered and Date Answered. The students started praying for their friends’ salvation, and within a couple of weeks the answers began, two or three people coming to know the Lord every week, and then often ending up at the Bible study. Every person whose name was in the book for prayer eventually came to Christ. The prayer journal became known as the “book of life.” If memory serves me correctly, about twenty-five people came to Christ through prayer alone that semester. Prayer worked. Even with inexperienced believers who hated witnessing, prayer worked and people were saved.

Key Ingredients to Successful Prayer Evangelism
• A group of believers gathered in unity (Matthew 18:19-20)• Being taught how to pray (Luke 11:1)• Praying in faith (Matthew 21:22, Mark 11:24)• For the lost (Romans 10:1-3, 1 Timothy 2:1-8)• Who are their neighbors (Luke 10: 25-37)• Lovingly by name (Exodus 33:17, Isaiah 43:1)• Regularly and persistently (Luke 18:1-8)

• And recording the answers and building faith (1 Chronicles 16:4)