Acts 16:13-15 ESV
13 And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together. 14 One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul. 15 And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.
This does not mean the Lord singled her out to be saved. The same words were heard by others, but Lydia's heart is singled out as responding to the word. It does not exclude the possibility that others responded in some way. The rain from heaven falls on the just and unjust. The seed planted grows as God sees and we do not.
We do know it is an opened heart that seeks and finds. She was a worshipper of God who then finds Jesus.
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