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I have a friend that helped me when my husband died 4 years ago in a foreign land where I knew very few people. I thank him in Jesus and he went ballistic.....he does not believe in God. We are still friends and I find him a kind and giving man, but definitely an unbeliever. So I pray for him every night that God would touch him and open his heart and ears to the truth. I believe that as long as he is alive there is hope and I must pray for him.