PRAYING FOR LOST LOVED ONES - SAVED BY GRACE - FROM GALATIANS CHAPTER 3

We don't know the heart of your spouse.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:

who can know it.- Jeremiah 17:9

We have been praying for lost loved ones in
SCRIPTURES TO PRAY FOR LOST LOVED ONES,
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Praying with you for your marriage, hoping in God His goodness will lead
your spouse to repentance and the one that went astray will turn their heart
toward you and home.

Galatians 3

BELIEVE VS THE WORKS OF THE LAW

LORD, deliver our churches and our loved lost ones from false teachings that bewitch those that are learning. For the MEANING of Jesus Christ's death was made as clear to us as if we had seen a picture of his death on the cross.

WE BELIEVERS RECEIVED THE SPIRIT BY FAITH IN HEARING OF YOUR WORD AND NOT BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW.

+Deliver us and our lost loved ones from foolish teachings, LORD. As we began by means of the Spirit, deliver us from being led astray and not now try to finish by means of the flesh.

May our experience not be in vain. You give us Your Spirit and work miracles among us by our believing what we've heard, and not by the works of law.

So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

SO THANKFUL LORD, that You've blessed us as the children of Abraham.
You justified us Gentiles by faith,


and announced the GOSPEL in advance to Abraham,

“All nations will be blessed through you.”


We rely on faith and are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

+Father, we desire for our lost loved ones to believe in the One You sent, the Lord Jesus Christ, that they be justified by faith and be blessed as the children of Abraham.

Deliver us and our lost loved ones from wrong doctrine and beliefs and not rely on the works of law and be under a curse.

“Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

You clearly said no one who relies on the law is justified before You God, because

“the righteous will live by faith.”

+Lord, may our lost loved ones not rely on the law to be justified before You.
We pray they will live by faith because you will declare them righteous in Christ Jesus.

The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says,

“The person who does these things will live by them.” (None have been able to do it from the beginning of human history to now and forever.)

THANK YOU LORD THAT CHRIST REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW BY BECOMING A CURSE FOR US.

It is written:

“Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”

He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

+Father, we want our lost loved ones to have the blessing given to Abraham through Jesus Christ, so that by faith they might receive the promise of the Spirit.


CHRISTIANS ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED

LORD, You use practical language in Your Word and use practical life to illustrate so that we can understand.
Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has duly been established, in the covenant You made with Abraham, You gave him the promises to him and his seed, singular, meaning one person, who is Christ.

The law was introduced 430 years later and did not set aside the covenant previously established by You and does not do away with the promise. Therefore, the inheritance does not depend on the law, otherwise it no longer depends on the promise. But You LORD gave it to Abraham through a promise.

The law was given because of the transgressions UNTIL THE SEED TO WHOM THE PROMISE REFERRED HAD COME.
The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator, implying more than one party, BUT GOD IS ONE.

Absolutely, the law is not opposed to Your promises. If the law could impart life, then righteousness would come by the law (we all broke it.) But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, and we've all sinned and come short of Your glory. SO WHAT WAS PROMISED, BEING GIVEN THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, MIGHT BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE.

+THANK YOU FATHER, that You make it clear in Your Word that the promises You made to Abraham was for him and his seed, one person, who is Christ. You further state that what was promised is given through faith in Jesus Christ to those who believe. Amazing grace! LORD, we pray our lost loved ones will have faith in Jesus Christ, that they will inherit what You promised.
CHRISTIANS ARE THE HEIRS

+LORD, You give us the grand finale on this subject in the last verse of Galatians Chapter 3:
"IF YOU BELONG TO CHRIST, THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE."
+Father, we pray our lost loved ones will belong to Christ, that they be Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. We also take hold of Your
Word for us in Acts 2:38-29:

Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.
And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off--for all whom the Lord our God will call. - Acts 2:38-39

CHILDREN OF GOD

LORD, You reiterate over and over again so that we get it. Before the coming of this faith, we were held custody under the law (we were locked!), UNTIL THE FAITH THAT WAS TO COME WOULD BE REVEALED. The law was our guardian UNTIL CHRIST CAME THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH. But now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

To resume, God, You said we are Your children through faith and all of us that were baptized into Christ have clothed ourselves with Christ.

+Oh Yes LORD, cloth our lost loved ones with Christ.

CHRISTIANS ARE ONE

There is neither Jew nor Gentile,
There is neither slave nor free
there is neither male and female

We are all one in Christ Jesus.

+Father God, we pray our lost loved ones will also be one with You and us in Christ Jesus.

In Jesus Name. AMEN

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