Can God Open a Closed person's mind?

[ashwise]

Can God open up a closed person's mind or would that be a violation of free will?

[OneLight]

Yes, He can. I am not sure He would, for even through His creation we can see Him. He just will not force anyone to accept Him.

[ashwise]

Awesome. But what about through prayer can a person help God try and open that person's mind?

[~candice~]

What about the testimony of Paul the Apostle?

[nikaoman]

I believe that we can pray for the spirit of blindness and confusion to be cut off in a persons life. And also that lying spirit of deception to be cut off, and for the Holy spirit to reveal truth to them.

[OneLight]

Awesome. But what about through prayer can a person help God try and open that person's mind?

By allowing His will to be done in your life, you are doing all you can for everyone you come in contact with. They will see God in you. You can pray that His will be done in another persons life, which is loving them as God does, but God will allow each person to decide for themselves.

Paul, in his heart, was following God the best he knew how. God did not force Himself onto Paul, but gave Paul the opportunity to see Him for who He is. You see, Paul was already seeking God, but his pride was blocking him. He thought he had all the answers, but Jesus proved him wrong.

[enoob57]

We are the evidence before them-> always when around us they watch us...

We shall always continue in Him... He is without beginning and end->In Him we begin! We have received eternity to Learn of and worship that which is learned of Him... Unlike now, where we can harden in our hearts and take for granted the uniqueness of His Witness of Himself in creation and His Word, then we shall know perfect worship and awe... to stand in God's purity of purpose and without regard to any thing else in perfected praise, adoration and Love shall clothe our hearts in His presence!

He says we cannot know what this shall be like, but if the forgiveness we have experienced already in Him and the newness of heart

and mind still yet fails toward this communication of that time, all I can say is ..... I am Longing for it to become!

Love, Steven

[Massorite]

Can God open up a closed person's mind or would that be a violation of free will?

Every single soul is called of God to believe in him but I believe it would be a violation of free will for God to directly intervene into a persons mind. However I believe that God would send folks into a persons life to talk to them or we could be called to pray for a persons mind to be opened or God might send an event into that persons life to make them re-think thier position on God.

I once talked to a lady about Jesus who was into drugs and partying and just living wild and it didn't seem to make a difference but two years later that lady came to the same church I was attending and gave her life to the Lord. She came to me and told me that she never forgot the words I spoke to her about Christ and that thoose words are the words that made her come to church that day. But it was her dicision alone to turn her life over to Jesus and now she is a great woman of God who heads a prison ministry. That lady was a complete stranger before I talked to her about Jesus and I had forgotten that I had ever talked to her.

God works in mysterious ways.

[JohnD]

Ask the prophet Jonah.

He won't force you to go.

He won't force you to go.

He won't force you 'gainst your will to go.

But, he'll certainly make you willing to go.

[Bold Believer]

Can God open up a closed person's mind or would that be a violation of free will?

He is the ONLY one who can. There is no such thing as free will, all are slaves to sin in the natural state. Salvation is the gift of God, salvation does not come by the will of man. See John 3 and Ephesians 2 and Romans 9.