One of the most sacred and most important of our tasks in prayer is to intercede on behalf of the lost. We know that every one of our friends, neighbors, and family members needs to hear the good news of the gospel and repent and believe. We know that God is the Good Shepherd, who makes it his purpose to seek out and save the lost. We know that God hears the prayers of his people. And so of course we can and we should and we must pray that God would save them!
We must pray that God would show them their lostness and show them the way to be found. We must pray that he would generate opportunities for us to share the gospel and that we would be obedient in accepting those opportunities and making the most of them, for it may be God’s good pleasure not only to save them, but to use us as his instruments to do so.
May Spurgeon’s compassion for the lost and his passion for evangelizing them be reflected in all of us. “If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”
