Garden of the Heart Ministries
Personalized Scripture Prayers
Praying Personalized Scriptures for Prodigals
If you’re like us, you have loved ones who have strayed from God or are lukewarm or cold in their relationship with Him. The Bible describes a person like this as a prodigal son.
You may feel helpless in all your efforts to turn your prodigal back to God, and you may be wondering whether they will ever return to the Lord. If that describes you, then we have good news for you!
There IS something you can do for those wayward children and loved ones. Start praying the following scriptures, believing that God's word will be fulfilled.
Scripture Prayers
Because I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, I can declare that I and my household are saved! Acts 16:31
Lord, I thank You that You will deliver the one for whom I intercede that is not innocent. Yes, ________will be delivered through the cleanness of my hands. Job 22:30
Many are the plans in ___________’s mind, but it is Your purpose that will stand for them. Pr 19:21 AMP
You said in Isaiah 49:24 that even though ________ has become prey to the mighty or has been taken captive lawfully, she/he shall be delivered. For You will contend with those that contend with me, and You will save my children.
You have promised to pour Your Spirit upon my seed and Your blessings upon my offspring. Is 44:3 You will pour water upon them and floods upon the dry ground of their hearts because she/he is spiritually thirsty.
I thank You that Your covenant with them is that Your Spirit which is upon me and Your words which You have put in my mouth shall not depart from them or their mouth, or from their offspring’s mouth. Is 59:21
My children shall dwell safely and continue, and their descendents shall be established before You. Ps 102:28
The seed of the righteous shall be delivered. Pr 11:21 Deliver _______from the snare of the trapper. Ps 91:31
I pray that ________ will come to her/his senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will. 2 Tim 2:26
I pray that the spirit of truth would penetrate _________’s heart. John 16:13
I forbid the god of this world from blinding _____ and I declare that she/he is crucified to this world and this world is crucified to her/him.
____________ has been translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Col 1:13
Father, I lay hold of Your covenant for _______. You said that You have made an everlasting covenant with _______, that You will not turn away from her/him, to do them good; but You will put Your fear in her/his heart so they will not depart from You. Jer 32:40
Father, You have promised to circumcise my heart and the hearts of my children, which means to open it to the gospel and take away all hindrances in obeying the truth. You will do this so that they will love You with all of their hearts and all of their souls, and live. Deut 30:6
Thank you for giving ______ a new heart and for putting a new spirit in her/him. Your word says that You will remove from her/him a heart of stone and give her/him a heart of flesh. Ezek 36:26
No one is able to snatch ______out of Your hand. John 10:29
Let Your Spirit of Truth come and... convict ______ of sin and righteousness and judgment in her/his lives. John 16:8
May _________ hear Your voice calling her/him to return to You and receive Your promise to heal her/his backslidings. Jer 3:22
Open ______'s eyes and turn her/him from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that she/he may receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in Christ. Acts 26:18
Please grant ______ repentance so that she/he would confess her/his sins, for I know You will be faithful and just to forgive ______'s sins, and to cleanse her/him from all unrighteousness. I Jn 1:9
Bring ________ to the place where she/he will confess her/his faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ________ may be healed. James 5:16
Alert ______ to know the time, that now it is high time for her/him to awake out of sleep: for now is her/his salvation nearer than when she/he believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: I pray that ______ will walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness (pleasure mindedness), not in strife and envying. But I pray that ______ will put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof. Rom 13:11-14
Lord, deliver _________ from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks perverse things, from those who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; Who delight in doing evil, and rejoice in the perversity of evil; Whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. Prov 2:12-15
Lord, please remove the rebellion and worldliness from ______'s heart. Have mercy upon her/him, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out her/his transgressions. Wash ______ thoroughly from her/his iniquity, and cleanse her/him from her/his sin. Bring ______to acknowledge her/his transgressions: and the sin that is ever before her/him. Against thee, thee only, has ______ sinned, and done this evil in Your sight. Ps 51:1-4
Purge ______ with hyssop, and she/he shall be whiter than snow. Hide Your face from ______'s sins, and blot out all her/his iniquities. Create in ______ a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within her/him. Cast ______ not away from Your presence; and take not Your Holy Spirit from her/him. Restore unto ______ the joy of Your salvation; and uphold her/him with Your free spirit. Then will ______ teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto You. Ps 51:7-13
I pray that ______ will come out from (the world), and be separate and touch not the unclean thing so that You will receive her/him back. 2 Cor 6:17
Thank you for Your Word that says, "Refrain your voice from weeping, And your eyes from tears; For your work shall be rewarded, says the Lord, And they shall come back from the land of the enemy. There is hope in your future, says the Lord, That your children shall come back to their own border." Jer 31:16,17
Father, I pull down the strongholds of pride, unbelief, rebellion, fear, deception, false theologies and _________. I take ________’s heart captive to the obedience of Jesus Christ. 2 Cor 10:4-5
I apply the blood of Jesus over _______, for I overcome the enemy by the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony. Rev 12:11 Where the blood of Jesus is applied the destroyer cannot come in.
In Jesus' Name. Amen.