Mark 4: 10-15- Praying for Unbelievers

Read Mark 4: 10-15- 

Jesus was teaching the disciples about parables. While giving meaning to the parable in verses 1 through 10, some did not understand. Jesus wanted those who chose to believe in Him to be able to understand the parables so they could apply the meanings to their lives.  Verse 13 through 15 say, ‘And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand the parables? The sower sows the word. And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown; when they hear, Stan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.”’ 

We have people in the world today who chose to readily ignore Jesus Christ, and anything associated with Him.  They fight to have Jesus excluded from society in every way they can. Jesus is telling us Satan has a firm grip on those individuals and will fight to maintain that grip. Those are many of the people we should be praying for. We need to pray in that spiritual battle for those people to see the grace of Jesus Christ. We need the soil of their hearts to change to a more fertile soil so the Word of God will find a place in them. 

Our prayer lists should probably be pages and pages long.  

Proverbs 3: 31-32- Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways, for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in His confidence. 

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