The deathbed shot

My biological father is in the hospital...He is battling cancer mets from his colon to his liver and lungs. When my 1/2 sister came home from high school (yes I typed that right he had her when he was 61) on Friday he couldn't communicate with her, he wouldn't even look at her. She called a family friend and he was taken to the hospital. He was then flown out of the local hospital to the University hospital...they are working him up now to see if he has brain mets....

So why am I posting this story...because I would like prayer for my Dad... he is not saved, does not believe in Jesus or what he did on the cross. My Dad has heard "the story"...my Dad at one time believed in Christ(in his college days), he says he no longer does....I use to think that once someone has turned from the Lord they can not be saved...BUT I have come to understand that I do not know the heart of my father... I don't know if he was truly saved to begin with... Judging this situation as hopeless would be placing myself in the position of our all knowing God...and the Word is fairly explicit when it says only God can judge the heart of man...

I'm looking at this hospitalization as mercy from our Father, for another shot so my Dad can hear the Gospel and believe...I thought today of the the two murders that hung next to Christ as they all were dying. I wondered if they had family that had given up hope for them to be saved....how nice it might have been for a mother, or sister, or daughter to hear the words of Christ stating "Today I will see you in paradise".

My Dad is not going to hear the gospel in his home, he has no visitors, he does not watch Christian TV, I don't believe he owns a Bible...it is going to take someone directly going to him and preaching the Word of God to him...I pray that this happens and that my fathers heart is somehow transformed...and that he accepts Christ...