A man is not saved because he believes that he is saved, but because by believing he lays hold of the salvation.
When He lays hold of us, He comes like the angel that came to Peter in the prison in the dark and awoke him out of his sleep and said 'Rise!
It lays hold on the sovereign will of God as our supreme good, and delights in absolutely and perfectly conforming itself thereto.
Therefore all the great things which it is said to do are due, not to anything in it, but wholly to that of which it lays hold.
In the mystery of His incarnation, in the flow of His sympathy, in the forth-putting of His power, He lays hold not on angels, but He lays hold on the seed of Abraham.
So faith is always trust in a divine Person, whether it lays hold of the past sacrifice, the present indwelling Spirit, or the future heaven.
Jesus Christ, therefore, knows what he doth, when he lays hold on the hearts of sinners of the biggest size.
Whatsoever he lays hold on, like a drowning man, he never loses, though it do but help to sink him the sooner.
It is as dark as pitch, and sticks as fast to anything it lays hold on.
He tickles him, as they do trouts, until he lays hold on him, and then devours and feeds upon him.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lays hold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
