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through his unbelief and perhaps even condemnation.
It is quite wonderful what tremendous results can be accomplished in this whole area of prayer for anyone, without any exception. All we really need to know is that, to the degree we release love in prayer, then something wonderful is set into motion in a person's life.
I think we have to reach far above the judgment aspect of it. The scoffer, the unbeliever, is only one among us all who is seeking to live adequately and has an equal right to the Father's love as anyone else in heaven or earth.
It means too, that if such a person is to one's awareness needing help, then this immediately obligates us to initiate that help on his behalf. This, in turn, involves us in getting people to pray for him, to love him, to help him in every possible way without necessarily preaching to him at all.
I learned this very early in my ministry. I remember one day receiving a letter from a lady in England asking if it would be any good praying for a young man friend of hers, John, who was dying of advanced tuberculosis in. both lungs. According to medical decree he had about three months to live. She wrote, “He is not only an atheist, but a very arrogant atheist ... No one dares even approach him in his need, or suggest the church or any aspect of Christ's teaching."
Would it do any good praying for him? In those very early days I had to find out about every step forward. I remember sitting down with the Father and really seeking the right answer. Then I felt absolutely inspired about it. It was then that I realized that to pray for someone does not necessarily mean “converting” him, challenging him, preaching to him, but that to love him and pray for him must be always right.
I wrote to this lady and suggested that this should be our procedure and invited her to write to me every week and let me know how it went. I asked her to establish a
