Christians, do you pray for the lost on yahoo answers?

Question

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aln6TJ4FDyYTqXoR2Th3Navd7BR.?qid=20070626070556AAhqgO4&cp=1&tp=2#all-answers&tnu=50

Amazing how many atheists responded and got mad at my question. I posted this to Christians.

Answer 1

Yes I do.... I believe that is a part of our duty as a Christian. Not to only preach to them, but to pray for them. We are Christian today because someone interceded on our behalf. I pray that God will take the wool from over there eyes and soften their hearts to receive Him. That should be our daily prayer....Save the Lost Souls!! I thank God that someone was praying for me!!

Answer 2

When I say..."I am a Christian" I do not wish to judge. I have no authority. I only know I'm loved. this part of the poem is completely wrong.... Christians do have authority over the negative powers, they can stand tall in the blood of Christ and cast down every principality that does not obey God's Word and Will. justice is integral, we will all be judged, and are called to judge ourselves, introspect , everyday of our lives.'cause following Jesus is a decision we make everyday,and its a tough journey if we walk without self-discipline and if we forget that God loves us ,and honours our efforts to follow Him....

Answer 3

I have prayed for some on yahoo answers. But not really for this category. It depends if someone touched my heart or not.

And you are right, I should pray for all of the obviously lost on here too. All of them. And also, to pray for fellow Christians on here for encouragement.

Too often the Christians get negative comments & that could wear on ones faith. And also, the baby Christians need extra prayer support. That they could have a mentor strong in faith.

Answer 4

Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you that you Love All people and desire for not one to Perish.
Lord how you must feel with all the confusion in so many hearts.
Please I pray from now God that everyone who enters the R&S room, WILL feel your presence, as most already know You are God.
For those who don't know how to feel or hear from you please soften their hearts and open their ears and eyes to the Truth of You.
Please I pray dear Lord God, release your Holy Spirit to be with them and give them understanding in the deep inner parts,
In Jesus Name
Amen

For Your Word goes out and achieves what it is sent out to do and it NEVER returns to You void,
Glory Be To The Lamb Who Sits Upon The Throne!

Answer 5

Yes, very much so -
As I answer each question, I pray that the Holy Spirit will bring about salvation in each life that reads it.

Answer 6

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it makes me so sad that I think I could cry. Seriously. I want to see everyone in heaven.

So yea...I do pray for them. Makes me feel better. Haha.

I pray for the christians too! They need just as much as non believers.

Answer 7

I pray that God will use my answers for his glory somehow, because our labors are in vain unless the Holy Spirit moves other people's hearts.

I noticed that no matter how well researched, and no matter how well reasoned, your arguments are, if it is not what people want to hear, they will ignore it. The natural man cannot accept the wisdom of God without the intervention of God the Holy Spirit.

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When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power....

...The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
~1 Corinthians 2:1-5 & 10-14 (NIV)


Someone has wisely said, “Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.” All this is so familiar to us — but do we really pray? If not, then failure must dog our footsteps, whatever signs of apparent success there may be. Let us never forget that the greatest thing we can do for God or for man is to pray. For we can accomplish far more by our prayers than by our work. Prayer is omnipotent; it can do anything that God can do! When we pray God works.
~"The Kneeling Christian", Chapter 1.

Answer 8

I pray for the ones that I have personally talked to that I know are searching.

No I don't pray for the lost that flat out refuse and ask stupid questions, they have been shown what His word says, its up to them now.

Answer 9

Not really, I usually just pray for good things to happen to the people I have hurt in my life.

Christians love one another. Why mock their attitudes?

Answer 10

Certainly. That is why I am here. It would be easier to avoid the curses of unbelievers. But it is better to communicate, because some who read of the Lord, will become motivated by Him to seek more of Him; and He responds to all who do.