I mean, is there someone you love, but you've kind of given up on it?

Is there someone you love whose eternity that you are desperately concerned about?

But you're not, you're not following that up with prayer.

Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, Pastor Lee Strobel will encourage you to

continue praying for your friends and family members who don't know the Lord. Thanks for joining us.

I'm John Fuller. John, I believe that as Christians, one of the most painful things we experience

is knowing that some of the people we love do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ.

And it seems like the more we talk about the benefits of being a Christian, the more closed off

they become. Even Jesus experienced this. In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus said, a prophet is honored

everywhere except in his own hometown and among his relatives

and his own family. That's straight from the new living translation. Today, Pastor Lee Strobel

will share with us the importance of praying for that loved one. And who knows, God might put someone

else in their life, someone

who might be the one to lead them to Christ. And that's fine. If it gets the job done.

Yeah, whatever it takes. And Lee Strobel is a best-selling author. He's been on this

broadcast a number of times. Here he is now speaking at Woodlands Church in the Houston area on today's

episode of Focus on the Family. Well, we're in the second week of a little series called

If Jesus lived in my house. And I want to suggest that if Jesus physically lived with us in our

house, one of the things we would notice is that he would pray. And he would pray specifically and

fervently and continually and faithfully and expectantly for spiritually confused people all over the

village, all over town, all over the neighborhood. He would pray for the salvation of spiritually

lost people.

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