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There are so many Believers that have a difficult person they care about they have labored in prayer for decades. Yet there has never been the slightest change in them. In fact they become angrier, and more bitter. They have even taken the abuse from the person they have spent years in  prayer for. The human aspect is exhaustion especially where there has been mocking, scorning and abuse. Yet, prayer continues though it be a life of longsuffering. The thought of them dying without Christ is worse than another day, or another 20 years of their abuse. The love of Jesus Christ is the power behind the choice to push through.  

There are many times temptation comes in to give up. This is not a demerit mark on some score card God has on everyone. Sometimes God wants us to rest to regain strength, and to pray again. True prayer for the ungodly is long and hard, but is has eternal reward for the person they prayed for, and for themselves when they meet together in heavenly places.   The two malefactors which were on opposite sides of Jesus on His cross, were standing on the edge of eternity. Think about it, the only two human beings in earthly and eternal history who died along side their Savior. Yet only one saw Him as Savior, for he called Him "Lord." His eyes were opened to see Jesus as His Savior, yet the other one did not. One railed on Him saying "Save thyself and us!" The other one said, "We deserve what we are getting," which is true heart contrition and repentance.   

That dying man was able to look into the face of his brutalized Savior and say, "Remember me when thou art come into they kingdom," and Jesus said, Today ye shall be with Me in paradise," where he is today with Christ in glory. We cannot tell who will come to Christ at their final breaths of earthly mortal life. Only Jesus knows. Jesus Christ died for both men condemned to die, and only one went into heaven with Him. Both were given the same opportunity, the same as Judas or Ananias and Sapphira, but their choices purchased for them an eternity they will never escape from. A Christ-less eternity.  Do not give up praying for those you love no matter what it looks like. The last act of the Lord on earth before death was forgiveness to filthy criminals legally condemned to die an ignominious, cursed death.

 Though it does not say it in the word, I somehow believe that even in Jesus' final moments of earthly life, perhaps He was praying to His Father to open the eyes of the worst, filthy criminals legally condemned to die. Two people whom I am certain had family members who gave up on them long ago.  I believe our Father in heaven answered those prayers. For "no man can say Jesus Christ is Lord but by the Holy Spirit." Never give up. Jesus said He would "see the travail of His soul and be satisfied." Amen, never give up praying for the hardest of them, and let the Savior of the World do the rest, He wants them in heaven more than we do. Shalom.  

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