Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of our post today is, Our God Loves to Save.

I want to follow yesterday's post with three encouraging facts regarding God's desire to save the lost and restore prodigals.

As you think and meditate on these truths, not only will they encourage you,

but your faith will grow, causing your prayers to be more powerful.

In later posts, we'll teach specifically on how to pray for the unsafe.

So now we're working on our faith, God's will, then we'll get to how to pray for them.

Post, by the way, is taken from, adapted from this little book,

How to Pray for Lost Loved Ones, published by Baker Books.

Fact number one, God desires that everyone be saved.

The beginning point of faith is to know God's will, what he desires and has said.

Regarding unbelievers, the scriptures tell us, quote,

He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

2. Peter 3.9.

We don't have to wonder about God's desire or willingness regarding the lost.

He could not have made his will any clearer.

The Lord wants every person to believe upon Christ and be born

again. Fact number two, God is able to save. He can deliver and save. Isaiah 59-1,

behold, the Lord's hand is not so short that it cannot save.

Not only is God willing to save the lost,

he is capable of doing so.

He has sufficient power and knows how to bend, shape, and change the perspective of unbelievers,

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