We who are saved are saved from the foundation of the world. Our prayer through the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit, and the resultant faith to believe allows us to confess this faith to God and before others, acknowledging the provision of His Son. However, if God has determined to save me, and I never acknowledge it through prayer I am still saved, because He has predestined me to be so. Therefore, it is entirely up to God, and not to the individual. Do children who die in infancy, whether by natural causes or otherwise, forfeit their salvation because they cannot pray “the sinner’s prayer”? God effects our salvation. We have absolutely nothing to do with it.
Bottom line here... you don’t do what Romans 10:9-10 says — you’re *not saved*...