Question: Does God hear and answer the prayer of an unsaved person? 1. Prayer is a spiritual blessing. "What a privilege to carry, every thing to God in prayer." 2. But all spiritual blessings are in Christ (Eph.1:3). 3. To have access to God in prayer, one must be in Christ, where all spiritual blessings are. When one is in Christ, he is saved. 4. Matt. 6:9f. The only one who can call upon God as Father is one who is His child, one who is in the family of God. Cf. 1 Tim. 2:1f. 5. There is one sense in which it can be said that God hears the prayer of an unsaved person. Cornelius (Acts 10) was a seeker of truth. He prayed to God. God heard his prayer in that God caused events to transpire that Cornelius could hear the truth, and be saved. Until he obeyed the Gospel, even though he prayed, he was lost (Acts 11:14). The application of that is that God can use persons and events to give one who is seeking truth the opportunity to know and obey truth. In fact, we pray that God will use efforts such as this program, for that very purpose. Perhaps this broadcast will be the means that God will use to give you the chance to understand His word, and obey Him.