Who are you standing in the gap for? James 5:19-20 says, “Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back…will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.”

There is no viable excuse for not praying. I have read biographies where the son was wayward. Yet the effectual fervent prayers from their mother’s broken hearts were answered in unimaginable ways.

Our mandate is to pray, but the answer is from the Lord. Proverbs 16:1 says, “The preparations of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.” Deuteronomy 29:29 says, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever…”

Jeremiah 33:3 says, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” As we seek the Lord through prayer, He may put words in our mouths, or He give us parts of Scripture. Prayer is a posture of faith.