At that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD (Genesis 4:26 ESV). From this first mention of prayer in the Bible, right through to the end, when the church prays Come, Lord Jesus! (Revelation 22:20), prayer is intimately linked with the gospel?God's promised and provided solution to the problem of human rebellion against him and its consequences. After defining prayer simply as calling on the name of the Lord, Gary Millar follows the contours of the Bible's teaching on prayer. His conviction is that even careful readers can often overlook significant material because it is deeply embedded in narrative or poetic passages where the main emphases lie elsewhere.