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Taking Hold of God: Studies on the Nature, Need and Power of Prayer is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Taking Hold of God, Zwemer lays out the case for the nature, need, and power of prayer. Chapters include: • The Antiquity and Universality of Prayer • The Nature of Prayer • Place and Posture in Prayer • The Time Element in Prayer • The Power of Prayer • Hindrances to Prayer • Non-Christian Prayer and Missions • Prayer and Missions • Some Old Testament...

New Testament lived in a different atmosphere. They had a unique sense of the presence of God. Heaven was not far from earth. Prayer is an attitude as well as a practice. It is impossible in a godless universe or to a Christless Christianity. As a French writer puts it, “The whole practice of the New Testament and the implications of the Old Testament are that the Christian life is a perpetual communion with God sustained by prayer as frequent as possible.” There is a world view in which prayer is
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