Tag: E. M. Bounds

  • A PRAYING PULPIT BEGETS A PRAYING PEW

    Power Through Prayer I judge that my prayer is more than the devil himself; if it were otherwise, Luther would have fared differently long before this. Yet men will not see and acknowledge the great wonders or miracles God works in my behalf. If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose…

  • DELIBERATION NECESSARY TO LARGEST RESULTS FROM PRAYER

    Power Through Prayer This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! I suspect I have been allotting habitually too little time to religious exercises, as private devotion and religious meditation, Scripture-reading, etc. Hence I am lean and cold and hard. I had better…

  • PREACHERS NEED THE PRAYERS OF PEOPLE

    Power Through Prayer If some Christians that have been complaining of their ministers had said and acted less before men and had applied themselves with all their might to cry to God for their ministers—had, as it were, risen and stormed heaven with their humble, fervent and incessant prayers for them—they would have been much…

  • MUCH PRAYER THE PRICE OF UNCTION

    Power Through Prayer All the minister’s efforts will be vanity or worse than vanity if he have not unction. Unction must come down from heaven and spread a savor and feeling and relish over his ministry; and among the other means of qualifying himself for his office, the Bible must hold the first place, and…

  • UNCTION A NECESSITY

    Power Through Prayer One bright benison which private prayer brings down upon the ministry is an indescribable and inimitable something—an unction from the Holy One … If the anointing which we bear come not from the Lord of hosts, we are deceivers, since only in prayer can we obtain it. Let us continue instant constant…

  • GRACE FROM THE HEART RATHER THAN T HE HEAD

    Power Through Prayer Study not to be a fine preacher. Jerichos are blown down with rams’ horns. Look simply unto Jesus for preaching food; and what is wanted will be given, and what is given will be blessed, whether it be a barley grain or a wheaten loaf, a crust or a crumb. Your mouth…

  • HEART PREPARATION NECESSARY

    Power Through Prayer For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience. — William Penn In the morning was more engaged in preparing the head than the heart. This has been frequently my error, and I have always felt the evil of…

  • AN EXAMPLE OF DEVOTION

    Power Through Prayer I urge upon you communion with Christ a growing communion. There are curtains to be drawn aside in Christ that we never saw, and new foldings of love in him. I despair that I shall ever win to the far end of that love, there are so many plies in it. Therefore…

  • PRAYER AND DEVOTION UNITED

    Power Through Prayer There is a manifest want of spiritual influence on the ministry of the present day. I feel it in my own case and I see it in that of others. I am afraid there is too much of a low, managing, contriving, maneuvering temper of mind among us. We are laying ourselves…

  • BEGIN THE DAY WITH PRAYER

    Power Through Prayer I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o’clock before I begin secret prayer. This is a wretched system. It is unscriptural. Christ arose before day and went into a solitary place. David says: “Early will I…