God's command is for everyone to repent and believe.
God though knows the imagination of man is evil from his youth, and that no one seeks Him, unless He changes them.
God grants repentance, if you believe, you can be assured God granted you to repent and also granted to you your belief, Ephesians 2 said this was due to His GREAT love for you, and not the others who did not have His GREAT love.
God has the right to love with a great love those He chooses to show mercy and compassion so that they repent and believe.
None of you can deny God to be what God is.
And God is not a monolithic machine intelligence running on some kind of program, God is a person.
And people are made in His image, so we are also persons with our own loves and desires, wills, plans, and purposes.
Proverbs 16:9
A man’s heart plans
his way, But the
Lord directs his steps.
Some verses using the word grant. You can see clearly, God is in control and also that prayer is a good idea. You can ask of God, and God may grant your request.
John 5:26
For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has
granted the Son to have life in Himself,
John 6:65
And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been
granted to him by My Father.”
Acts 4:29
Now, Lord, look on their threats, and
grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word,
Acts 11:18
When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also
granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.”
Acts 14:3
Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who was bearing witness to the word of His grace,
granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
Acts 27:24
saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar; and indeed God has
granted you all those who sail with you.’
Ephesians 3:16
that He would
grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
Philippians 1:29
For to you it has been
granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,
2 Timothy 1:18
The Lord
grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that Day—and you know very well how many ways he ministered
to me at Ephesus.
2 Timothy 2:25
in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will
grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,
Philemon 1:22
But, meanwhile, also prepare a guest room for me, for I trust that through your prayers I shall be
granted to you.
Revelation 3:21
To him who overcomes I will
grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
Revelation 6:4
Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was
granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that
people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword.
Revelation 7:2
Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was
granted to harm the earth and the sea,
Revelation 13:7
It was
granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.
