{"id":52475,"date":"2022-09-25T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=52475"},"modified":"2022-09-25T00:35:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T05:35:30","slug":"i-pray-that-this-sinner-may-be-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=52475","title":{"rendered":"I Pray That This Sinner May Be Saved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We all know people who don&#8217;t know the Lord and, therefore, we all know what it is to plead for their salvation. This prayer by Philip Doddridge is drawn from Tim Chester&#8217;s new collection <em>Into His Presence<\/em> and gives words that can perhaps guide you in your prayers of supplication.<\/p>\n<p>Almighty God,\u00a0with you all things are possible.\u00a0To you therefore I humbly apply myself on behalf of this dear immortal soul,\u00a0this person who is perishing in their sins, and hardening themselves\u00a0against that everlasting gospel\u00a0which has been the power of God to the salvation\u00a0of so many thousands and millions.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, that after all their hardness and impenitence, you would still be pleased,\u00a0by the sovereign power of your effectual grace,\u00a0to awaken and convert them!\u00a0You who made the soul\u00a0can cause the sword of conviction to enter it.\u00a0Oh, that in your infinite wisdom and love you would find a way to intervene,\u00a0and save this sinner from death, from eternal death!\u00a0You know, O God, they are a dying creature.\u00a0You see a moment marked in the book of your decrees which will seal them up in an unchangeable state.\u00a0Oh, that you would lay hold on them while they are still part of the living!\u00a0Oh,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know people who don\u2019t know the Lord and, therefore, we all know what it is to plead for their salvation. This prayer by Philip Doddridge is drawn from Tim Chester\u2019s new collection Into His Presence and gives words that can perhaps guide you in your prayers of supplication. Almighty God,\u00a0with you all things are possible.\u00a0To you therefore I humbly apply myself on behalf of this dear immortal soul,\u00a0this person who is perishing in their sins, and hardening themselves\u00a0against \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":52478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[809],"class_list":["post-52475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-quotes","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AdobeStock_479129766-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C633&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52480,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52475\/revisions\/52480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}