How to Pray for Others

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Have you ever run out of things to pray for when someone asks you to pray for them? In this video I provide 10 things that every person needs prayer for.

How do you pray for someone who just says, “I need you to pray for me.” Today I want to introduce you to the BEST prayer that you could ever pray for anyone, at any time in any situation, no matter what.

In the NT book of Colossians 1 Paul prays this beautiful prayer for the church and you can use this same prayer as you pray for other people and I want to break this down into three categories. First of all you are praying for…

1. Wisdom
a. SCRIPTURE: “We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all the wisdom and understanding the Spirit gives.” So here you are praying that this person views life through the same lens that God views it and filters every decision through the wisdom found in the word of God.
i. Family – lead their families in a way that would honor God
ii. Finances – Make good decisions, good stewards, generous
iii. Friendships – Choose the right relationships, and have wisdom to know when to sever the wrong relationships
b. And so here you are praying that they would apply the WISDOM found in the word of God and that they would know very clearly what God’s WILL is for their life.
c. Intellectual and Experiential
2. Walk
a. Paul says here I’m praying “…that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way…”
b. So here you’re praying that a person’s
i. CONDUCT (how they LIVE)
ii. CONVERSATION (how they TALK)
iii. CHARACTER (integrity) – be CONSISTENT with how Jesus lived His life. So you’re praying that there be no hypocrisy in their life. Here you’re praying that their private life match up with their public life.
c. How do you do that? Paul says by “increasing in the knowledge of God.” As we grow in our knowledge of God our CONDUCT, our CONVERSATION and our CHARACTER changes because now we are being CONVICTED by the word of God.
d. You’re praying that they would live their lives in such a way where others can emulate them and follow in their example.
e. SCRIPTURE: “…bearing fruit in every good work…”
3. Weaknesses
a. SCRIPTURE: “…being strengthened in all power…”
i. Physical weaknesses – physical illness,
ii. Emotional weaknesses (depression, anger, discouragement, loss of hope, low self-image)
iii. Spiritual weaknesses (temptation, if they are feeling and experiencing temptation in a given area where they feel weak and are prone to yield you pray for God’s power to strengthen them.
b. And to be even more specific you can pray that…“…may have great endurance and patience…”
i. Difficulty – Loss of a loved one, divorce, broken relationship, financial stress, loss of a job, wayward child, etc.
ii. Hardship
iii. Trial
c. Endurance – Greek word
d. God whatever trials they are facing right now I pray you give them the ability to endure and to remain steadfast up under the pressure of the situation.

So, I want to encourage you today to go out and pray this simple but effective prayer over the lives of your children, your spouse, your loved ones even your enemies. Make it a part of your daily prayer to pray that they would use WISDOM but not just any wisdom but WISDOM found in the word of God and that they would know God’s perfect will for their life. Second, pray for their walk (integrity, etc.). And finally pray for their weaknesses. We all have them and we all need prayer.

[leonoradompor]

I pray for people who are fighting and have enemies, in Gods time all time heals !

[ChloeDeBre]

This is EXAAAACTLY what I've been looking for! I have been asked to pray for others many times but I draw a blank sometimes. The Holy Spirit always gives me direction and this is a GREAT addition to get me jump started!! :)

[MrBrotherLou]

VERY GOOD PREACHER...AND BIBLE your tribe

[god]

this is so beautiful and accurate this is exactly the way the holy spirit leads me in prayer.

[call_me_kakers]

Please help pray for my friend so that he may see the loving Kingdom of God and become a part of it!!!

[arrichard]

I tend to pray only for myself, but that is important too praying for others (family, friend, co worker, church, illness etc) Wisdom (Proverbs 3:5-6) 🌠

[iamangela]

Amen.. this is a CONFIRMATION! I found myself praying all the time for my son who has a certain issue and is, as a result of this living in a way that isn't wise. So, I have a better understanding of what the Lord meant when he said what he did to me, concerning praying for him! I God bless you and I hope your leg gets better!🙏🙏

[jackieharrington]

I'm going to pray for the 20 people that thumb down this video 😂 We are nothing without Jesus 🙌❤️

[barrycamper]

Many times I have been called to the alter to pray for others only to stumble through something off the cuff. This prayer you have so eloquently presented in this video, I will use in almost every situation I get into to pray for others. It gives me something to build my prayers upon. I wish I had found this a long time ago! Thank you for revealing this prayer to me.

[pinkkrevolution]

The Holy Spirit guided me to your video ♥️ I was invited to prayer session and I am sometimes lost on how to pray in an effective way. And this helped me understand how to do so.
subscribing NOW.

[jayveeaurea]

No matter how short the prayer but if it’s from the heart, God in heaven will hear. Amen🙏

[cassielindeberg]

This is such an encouragement! I'm going to pray this for myself, my unbelieving family members, my wayward husband, and anyone who asks for prayer!! Thank you so much!!

[gmaduro]

Dear Allen, I want to take my time to thank you and God especially for having you putting out videos like this to encourage one another how to live in the spirit. God bless you and your family.

[claudetteduduzile]

8 years later and the Holy Spirit let me to this powerful video. Thank you brother Allan may God continue to use you. 🙌👏🏾🇿🇦🇿🇦

[kirtisoma]

Thank you for this video, sometimes i feel like my prayers are insufficient as I am nee to Christianity, recently my husbands dad was diagnosed with cancer, I believe that we serve a wonderful God .
I have seen his finger prints many times in my life, he even answered prayers that I didn't pray .

[michaelhuffman]

Asking prayer for my daughter, son in law, grandson, and me and the wife, let's just say we are dealing with rebellion, anger, and the spewing over of our kids jealousy to one another. They are using me and the wife as a buffer. We're both sick of it, taking it's toll on us. Praying they either get saved or rededicate their lives to Christ and grow up for their son and soon to be second one.

[avitrip]

a perfect guidance to someone who in his life never prayed for himself, i am happy with what GOD had, is and will be doing for/to, so i always pray for others, unknowingly it was just a conversation with him, but now its like GOD landed me to your video to give me direction to my prayers, thanks to your video, MAY GOD BLESS YOU

[timketchie]

Brother Parr and others here, I am in desperate need of prayers to try to save my marriage, my wife is very much wanting to divorce me but I firmly believe that a divorce is God’s will. please pray that God will give us wisdom and guidance in this situation, please pray that we will have clarity of His will and that we are obedient to it no matter what that will is. We will be married 25 years this Tuesday 2/27, unfortunately we have been separated the past year and a half, I love and adore my wife with all my heart but the love she has for me and grown very weak if she still feels any at all but I believe much of her feelings are stiffed by anger towards me, I confessed and completely repented to God and to her about my sin against her, It’s going to take a miracle to save our marriage but I know we have a big God, a living father that can easily do any miracle if it’s within His will, this no doubt is very much a spiritual warfare battle and I am reaching out to other brothers and sisters to be prayer warriors and help me fight for our marriage. Satan would like nothing more than to destroy another Christian marriage and family but I am to fight him harder than I have fought any other battle in my life. Your prayers are greatly coveted and appreciated, my prayers for you is that you receive great blessing in return for your kindness and prayers

[AllysseMarie]

Excellent break down, thank you so much. Time to pray folks !!!

[frankstein]

Counting on you to be able to do, what you said, praying for those that push thumbdown...
May be all that PLUS the wicked trying to continue to steal our time know im coming.