Tag: E. M. Bounds

  • EXAMPLES OF PRAYING MEN

    Power Through Prayer The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge BISHOP WILSON says: “In H. Martyn’s journal…

  • MUCH TIME SHOULD BE GIVEN TO PRAYER

    Power Through Prayer The great masters and teachers in Christian doctrine have always found in prayer their highest source of illumination. Not to go beyond the limits of the English Church, it is recorded of Bishop Andrews that he spent five hours daily on his knees. The greatest practical resolves that have enriched and beautified…

  • A PRAYING MINISTRY SUCCESSFUL

    The principal cause of my leanness and unfruitfulness is owing to an unaccountable backwardness to pray. I can write or read or converse or hear with a ready heart; but prayer is more spiritual and inward than any of these, and the more spiritual any duty is the more my carnal heart is apt to…

  • PRAYER, THE GREAT ESSENTIAL

    Power Through Prayer You know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price. Never, never neglect it—Sir Thomas Buxton Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a minister. Pray, then, my dear brother: pray, pray, pray — Edward Payson PRAYER, in the preacher’s life, in the preacher’s…

  • TENDENCIES TO BE AVOIDED

    Power Through Prayer, Let us often look at Brainerd in the woods of America pouring out his very soul before God for the perishing heathen without whose salvation nothing could make him happy. Prayer—secret fervent believing prayer—lies at the root of all personal godliness. A competent knowledge of the language where a missionary lives, a…

  • THE LETTER KILLETH

    Power Through Prayer, E. M. Bounds During this affliction I was brought to examine my life in relation to eternity closer than I had done when in the enjoyment of health. In this examination relative to the discharge of my duties toward my fellow creatures as a man, a Christian minister, and an officer of…

  • MEN OF PRAYER NEEDED

    Power of Prayer, E. M. Bounds (Chapter One) Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two; your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your…

  • PRAYER & SPIRITUAL WARFARE

    E. M. BoundsChapter 14 Prayer and the House of God And dear to me the loud “Amen,”Which echoes through the blest abode –Which swells, and sinks, then swells again,Dies on the walls — but lives with God! Prayer affects places, times, occasions, and circumstances. It has to do with God and with everything that is…

  • PRAYER & SPIRITUAL WARFARE

    E. M. BoundsChapter 13 Prayer and the Word of God Some years ago a man was traveling in the wilds of Kentucky. He had with him a large sum of money and was well armed. He stayed at a log house one night but was much concerned with the rough appearance of the men who…

  • PRAYER & SPIRITUAL WARFARE

    E. M. BoundsChapter 12 Prayer and God’s Promises In the Scriptures, we constantly encounter such words as “field,” “seed,” “sower,” “reaper,” “seedtime,” “harvest.” Employing such metaphors interprets a fact of nature by a parable of grace. The field is the world and the good seed is the Word of God. Whether the Word be spoken…