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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...

our most prudent Physician has provided two plasters to give us encouragement to pray (notwithstanding the knowledge of offences committed): that is, a precept and a promise.”26 “The precept or commandment to pray,” writes Knox, “is universal, frequently inculcated and repeated in God’s scriptures.”27 He quotes several verses to support this: Psalm 50:15; Matthew 7:7 and 26:41; 1 Thessalonians 5:17; and 1 Timothy 2:1–2, 8.28 For Knox, therefore, the mandate to pray is not only
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