In short, I do not ask God to sit back and wait for my neighbor to decide to change. I do not suggest to God that He keep his distance lest his beauty become irresistable and violate my neighbor's power of self-determination. I pray that he ravish my unbelieving neighbor with his beauty, that he unshackle the enslaved will, that he make the dead alive and that he suffer no resistance to stop him lest my neighbor perish. God know those who are his and he will riase up messengers to win them. If someone refuses to be a part of that plan, because he dislikes the idea of being tampered with before he was born, then he will be the loser, not God and not the elect.
Prayer is like preaching in that is a human act also.
It is a human act that God has ordained and which he delights in because it reflects the dependence of his creatures upon Him. He has promised to repond to prayer, and his response is just as contingent upon our prayer as our prayer is in accordance with his will. In other words, just as God will see to it that His Word is proclaimed as a means to saving the elect, so He will see to it that all those prayers are prayed which he has promised to respond to. Go back to Contend for the Faith .