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標  題: How To Win Your Unsaved Loved Ones (5)
發信站: 信望愛團契電子佈告欄 (Tue Oct  3 12:53:45 1995)
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$$ Other Methods .......

    This is just one way of praying for the salvation of a loved one. I 
prayed for other relatives differently.

    For one I just said, " Lord, send somebody across his path." For 
another I said, " I break the power of the devil over him." I had the 
spirit of intercession for others.

    It all comes back to the Word and the Spirit. Every Christian needs
to get into the Word and study what the Bible says on this subject of 
interceding for the lost. In Romans 15:1, the Bibles says, " We then that 
are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak...." Galatians 6:2 
says, "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."

    Often people pray wrong -- and open the door to the devil. They pray,
" Lord, bring them in at any cost." Jesus already has paid the cost ! 
People need to understand that. If you don't, you're opening the door for 
the devil to do a lot of things. People say, " Well, God used that tragedy 
to bring him to salvation." But that kind of thinking is not in line with
the Bible.

    People have gotten saved in times of war when bombs were dropping and 
innocent women and children were being killed. But that wasn't God's way 
of bringing them in! Of course He's there when people turn to Him, but you
needn't pray tragedies upon people to make them come to Him!

    When God begins to deal with a person, a spirit of conviction comes 
upon him -- and it usually comes through prayer. Often he becomes more 
miserable and more difficult to live with than ever -- but you needn't 
pray an accident or illness upon him in order for him to get born again!

    You must depend on the Spirit of God, and you must use wisdom to know
when to speak to your unsaved loved ones and when to keep your mouth shut.
all the time, of course, you're praying for them.

 
$$ God Deals with Families .........

    Many people are confused about Acts 16:31: "...Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." Other translations read "
and thy house if they believe." You see, you're going to have to get them to 
believe.

    In Acts 16, the Philippian jailer got saved. He was the head of his house.
Once he got saved, he began to do what the Bible says; he began to pray and 
set the right example in front of his household, and they got saved. That's 
all there is to it.

    I never doubted that my whole housefold would be saved; by this I mean my 
immediate family. My wife was saved when we were married, and the later we had
two children. The though never occurred to me that they wouldn't be saved. I 
knew they would.

    God does deal with families, and the man should take the lead. If he 
doesn't, then the wife will have to. But most of the time, when the man 
becomes a Christian, walks with God, is the head of his house, prays, and has
family devotions, they'll all follow him.

    Even though we don't have a lot of scriptures for it, I thoroughly believe
that God deals with families. In the Old Testament He dealt more with 
individuals, and we know that under the New Testament He still primarily 
deals with individuals. But because God instituted the family, He also deals 
with families.