A Goodnight Prayer for A Friend

Whether our friend is a believer or an unbeliever, it is always a good and caring gesture to pray for them before we go to sleep. We can even let them know that we prayed for them as they go to bed. If our friend is a fellow believer in the faith, one of the ways we show our love for our fellow brothers and sisters in the faith is by remembering them in prayers. Likewise, we are also to love our friends who are unbelievers. Loving them by remembering them in prayers is one way we can win them to Christ.

Heavenly Father, may love always be the motivation whenever I remember a friend in prayer. Help me pray in a manner where I bear his/her burdens and cry them out to You. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

What Do You Pray in a Goodnight Prayer for a Friend?

Whether your friend is an unbeliever or a fellow brother or sister in Christ, you can pray for their well-being. Think about their situation in order to seek their well-being sincerely in prayer. For example, let’s say you have a friend who is about to travel somewhere the next day. You can pray a simple prayer for your friend’s safety. You could also concern yourself with their spiritual well-being and pray that peace and grace will abound in their life.

If your friend is an unbeliever, aside from praying for their physical, mental, and emotional well-being, you can pray for their salvation. Therefore, a simple prayer that tells them of God’s grace and mercy in the person of Christ would be good. As people who are not yet in Christ, the Gospel is the very thing they need, for apart from Christ, they are recipients of God’s wrath (Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.; Ephesians 2:1-9).

You can also pray for the concerns they have. There are many ways to know what their concerns are. You can try to remember the conversations you had with them. Did they mention their current concerns, cares, and burdens to you? If you have a conversation with them during the day, you can send a goodnight prayer to them. That would be a caring gesture. You can also try asking them if there is anything you could help them with via prayer.

How Do I Pray a Goodnight Prayer for a Friend?

Pray a goodnight prayer for a friend by seeking their well-being and praying for the concerns, cares, and burdens they have. When the Bible tells us about loving others in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, the kind of love that the apostle Paul referred to is agape love. That kind of love is where one sacrificially seeks the well-being of others. The greatest example of that is Christ, who sacrificed Himself for us. That is why if we love our friends and pray for them, we are to seek their well-being in prayer.

Whatever well-being you would seek in prayer is up to you. You can pray for their health, emotional comfort, peace from anxiety, etc. You address their physical, mental, emotional, and, more importantly, their spiritual well-being. You also pray a goodnight prayer during which you address the concerns, cares, and burdens they have. In (Galatians 6:2 Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.), it is written that we are to bear one another’s burdens.

Remember that as you pray, you pray on their behalf as if their well-being is your well-being and their burdens are your burdens.

Heavenly Father, I pray for my friend [name of the person] that You protect him from any sickness. Give him the grace and wisdom that he needs at work and the strength to face every day and all his responsibilities. I pray for strength upon him as he encounters challenges in the family. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

You can try letting them know in a message before bed. That makes praying a goodnight prayer for a friend a nice and caring gesture. You can send the prayer and let the person know you just prayed for them. Hence, if you are going to send a prayer through a message, it would be good to keep the prayer simple and concise so that it is clear enough to show that you are praying for their well-being and concerns before God.

As you pray, you pray before God’s throne of grace and ask for the grace and mercy that your friend needs (Hebrews 4:16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.). If they are a fellow brother or sister in the faith, they are ultimately dependent on God’s grace and mercy every single day of their spiritual journey. If they are an unbeliever, they need the greatest grace and mercy that God showed humanity, which is Christ.