It is good to pray that God would save the ones we love. As Christians, we believe that God loves to save the lost and that it gives him special pleasure to do so in response to the prayers of his people. It is good to pray, but sometimes also difficult, especially when we have prayed the same prayer for years without seeing any apparent results. Rarely do we learn what it means to labor and wrestle in prayer until we have spent ages pleading for the soul of a loved one.
I think it is good to keep two factors in mind as we do this: When we pray for God to save a person, we are praying for something that is both impossible and simple. It is both impossible and simple, with no tension between the two.
We are praying for something that is impossible—impossible without the direct intervention of God. Left to themselves, unbelievers will continually choose to remain apart from God and continually drive themselves farther and farther from his mercy and grace. There is no one who is righteous and no one who seeks for God without the help of God (Romans 3:11). There is
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