June 18, how to plead for unbelievers? Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them

is that they may be saved, Romans 10 one. Paul prays that God would convert Israel.

He prays for her salvation. He does not pray for ineffectual influences but for

ineffectual influences and that is how we should pray too. We should take the new covenant promises

of God and plead with God to bring them to pass in our children and our neighbors and on all the

mission fields of the world. God, take out of their flesh the heart of stone and give them a new

heart of flesh. Ezekiel 11, 19, God circumsize their heart so that they love you,

Deuteronomy 30, 6. Father, put your spirit within them and cause them to walk in your

statutes. Ezekiel 36, 27. Grant them repentance and a knowledge of the truth that they may escape

from the snare of the devil, 2 Timothy 2, 25, and 26. Open their hearts so that they may believe

the gospel X 16, 14. When we believe in the sovereignty of God, in the right and power of God to

elect and then bring hardened sinners to faith and salvation, then we will be able to pray with

no inconsistency and with the confidence of great biblical promises for the conversion of the lost.

Thus God has pleasure in this kind of praying because it ascribes to him the right and honor

to be the free and sovereign God that he is in election and salvation.