What factors does God consider when choosing the time and place to grant someone a conversion experience?

For this question, I will refer to Blaise Pascal's personal case, as summarized on this [website](https://godandmath.com/tag/pascals-wager/) : > ### Conversion experience > > November 23, 1654, Pascal underwent a conversion experience. He had a vision of Jesus on the cross, he wrote: > >> “From about half-past ten in the evening until about half-past twelve … FIRE … God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, and not of the philosophers and savants. Certitude. Certitude. Feeling. Joy. Peace.” > > He kept this on a small piece of paper which he kept with him sewn into the lining of his coat. > > ### Pascal and reason > > Pascal was highly dubious about the role of natural theology. In his *Pensées* , published posthumously, he wrote: > >> “It is an astounding fact that no canonical writer has ever made use of nature to prove God. They all strive to make us believe in Him. David, Solomon, etc., have never said, “There is no void, therefore there is a God.” They must have had more knowledge than the most learned people who came after them, and who have all made use of this argument. This is worthy of attention.” (*Pensées* 243) > > Natural theology for Pascal leads to the god of the philosophers, not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of the Bible. > > He could perhaps be thought of as an early reformed epistemologist, for him belief in God was properly basic. He asserted that: > >> “The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.” (*Pensées* 277) >> >> “It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith: God felt by the heart, not by the reason.” (*Pensées* 278) > > Nevertheless, he did provide one argument for belief in God: Pascal’s Wager (*Pensées* 233). Simply put, if God exists we will be rewarded. If he doesn’t exist we won’t be. If we believe in God and he doesn’t exist we might have lost out on a few ‘sinful pleasures’, however, if we don’t believe in God but he does exist, then we may face eternal damnation. It’s not worth the risk of not believing in God. Pascal believed that God is beyond the reach of reason and must be known through the heart. Natural theology and philosophical arguments may point to the "God of the philosophers," but not to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. As his own conversion experience suggests, Pascal did not come to faith through intellectual reasoning but through a profound spiritual encounter. Following Pascal's thoughts and testimony, it seems that God takes an active role in conversion, especially if such experiences require an encounter with the living God. The question then becomes: when and where does this occur? **Theologically, what factors does God consider when determining the moment and place for someone to have a conversion experience, like Pascal's?**