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In Taking Hold of God, you will enter the treasury of the church of Jesus Christ and discover some of its most valuable gems on the subject of Christian prayer. The writings of the Reformers and Puritans shine with the glory of God in Christ, offering us much wisdom and insight today that can make our own prayer lives more informed, more extensive, more fervent, and more effectual. Six...

slips from our memory.”48 Calvin prescribes several rules to guide believers in offering effectual, fervent prayer.49 The first is a heartfelt sense of reverence. In prayer we must be “disposed in mind and heart as befits those who enter conversation with God.”50 Our prayers should arise from “the bottom of our heart.”51 Calvin calls for a disciplined mind and heart, asserting that “the only persons who duly and properly gird themselves to pray are those who are so moved by God’s majesty that, freed
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