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One of the most vital parts of being a Christian is to pursue, practice, and develop a discipline of prayer. This isn’t a duty, but a delight. The reality of this, though, is that very often books and sermons on prayer are ones which make us feel worse – and end up doing less than we intend, despite our good intentions. It is from this balance of reality that William Philip, Minister at the Tron Church in Glasgow, wrote his book on prayer.<\/p>\n
Coming in around 100 pages, this is a book this is both quick and easy to read, whilst also containing good and faithful biblical teaching on the difficult but vital topic of prayer. Rooted in a lifelong, faithful understanding of prayer, drenched in scripture, and deeply practical, this is a book which actually manages to understand and engage with the concerns of the question it seeks to ask. In four chapters – as a reviewer, I would have liked to have had a conclusion\/drawing together of the ideas – William gives four powerful reasons to a range of the questions from the hearts of those of us who seek to pray, and ones which I and people close to me have often had cause to ask:<\/p>\n
“The Holy Spirit alone can enable us to pray in Jesus’s name because it his sovereign work to confer the name of Jesus upon us, bringing us into the family of God. That is how we\u00a0receive the adoption as sons that enables us to call God “Father”.<\/i>“<\/p>\n
You can probably tell that I enjoyed this book. I enjoyed it because fundamentally this is, as I said at the outset, a book that actually does what it says on the cover. This book gives us reasons to pray. Because of Who God is and because of how God relates to us, his people. Whilst I could criticise the traditional language of parts of this book, and it’s lack of a concluding chapter, I think it would make a brilliant little study for any church small group thinking about prayer, and wanting to go deeper into enjoying the presence and power of God.<\/p>\n
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