The necessity of true prayer
Rodney Kleyn provides instruction on the necessity and practice of prayer based on Lord's Day 45 of the Heidelberg Catechism, addressing why prayer is essential for Christians and what makes prayer acceptable to God. The article emphasizes believers' deficiencies in prayer and presents the Lord's Prayer as both a model and means through which Christians grow in their prayer life and dependence on the Holy Spirit's grace.
Lord's Day 45 Question 116. Why is prayer necessary for Christians? Answer. Because it is the chief part of thankfulness which God requires of us; and also, because God will give His grace and Holy Spirit to those only who with sincere desires continually ask them of Him, and are thankful for them. Question 117. What are the requisites of that prayer which is acceptable to God and which He will hear? Answer. First, that we from the heart pray to the one true God only, who hath manifested...
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