The final rule is to have a heartfelt sense of confident hope.58 The confidence that our prayers will be answered does not arise in ourselves but through the Holy Spirit working in us. In believers’ lives, faith and hope conquer fear so that we are able to “ask in faith, nothing wavering” (James 1:6). True prayer is confident of success, owing to Christ and the covenant, “for the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ seals the pact which God has concluded with us.”59 Believers thus approach God boldly and