The Not Going to Church Dad

Not giving together as same are in the habit of doing but encouraging one another more as You see the day approaching. Hebrews 10:25

Lord, bless the Dad that is not going to church to become inspired to go to church. Let him have an encounter with You like never before that will turn his heart toward You. If he has never received salvation, let laborers who are in Your vineyard witness to him about how Your son was born to redeem us from our sins. I pray that if the Dad is not going to church due to church hurt, You will heal his heart in Jesus’ name. Lord, I pray You will send him word by Your man of God that the wheat and tares grow together, but You will do the separating. I pray that he will not let the tricks of the enemy keep him from having fellowship with You. Lord, I pray he will walk in forgiveness of the person that hurt him and move forward. Allow him to know that You will take care of that

person.

I pray that if the father is not going to church because he is in a backslidden state or he feels like he has messed up too bad for his sins to be forgiven, remind him what Your

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words say about how kind and merciful You are. Let him know that he can turn away from his wrong and that You will restore him. Allow him to know that all have sin, and have fallen short of the glory of God. Remind him about how Your love for him covers a multitude of sins.

Lord, I pray once the father is in church or has returned to church after being gone, expose every trick of the enemy and scheme that would cause him to leave church again. Bind up the hand of the enemy. Lord release tenacity in the spirit of this Dad that he will stay the course and will not fall back into forsaking the assembly of the church. Give him a hunger and thirst for righteousness. Endow him with Your Holy Spirit. Allow him to know that the Holy Spirit will lead and guide him into all truth. It will comfort him, and it will give him power to live right.

Reveal and cultivate his God given gifts and allow him to get busy in the church using his gifts for the kingdom. Let Your light so shines in his life, that Your glory will be manifested in him and through him. Allow the other men in the church to take him under their wings to fellowship and encourage him. Allow him to know that you began a good work in him and You will complete it.

Destroy every negative word that will go forth to make him think it is not important to pay tithes and or give an offering.

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Lord, allow him to be a cheerful giver. Let him know You love a cheerful giver. Let him know that You will supply all his needs according to Your riches in glory.

PRAYERS FOR THE CHILDREN

Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus for the child of the father that is not attending church. I pray that You will give the child strength to pray for their father and allow the child to continue to stand in the gap for their father. Lord, I pray especially for the child that is grown, and they are praying for their parents to know You in the pardoning of their sin. Lord, if You allow them to release a word to the father, may it be according to Your spirit. Let them speak when You say speak, and to be quiet when You are quiet. Lord don’t allow the child to lose hope of their father being saved. Lord, I pray that the child will not have a prideful spirit when it comes to them praying for their father. Allow them to continue to lift the name of Jesus, and let the child know, You will do the drawing. Don’t allow them to lose heart. Allow them to be reminded that with love and kindness You draw them.

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