Pray For Life: A Prayer JourneySample

Freedom for the Captives

Pray for release from anything that unhelpfully dominates X’s life and obscures their path to God (John 8:34)

When Jesus stated ‘the son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many’ (Mark 10:45), he was using the business language of the day where a ransom or ‘price of release’ could be paid for a relative who had sold themselves into slavery. The release Jesus refers to is not from physical imprisonment but from bondage to sin and its effects.