March 18, 2002
The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere. Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil. Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things. God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world. That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents. A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation. The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
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Power Through Prayer By E.M. Bounds There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do- go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our "to do" lists. |
May 10, 2002
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
February 12, 2003
Men are God's method. The church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. What the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men who the Holy Spirit can use - men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit does not come on machinery but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men - men of prayer.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
December 12, 2003
All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.... But men's plans ignore the offence of the cross or despise it. Men's plans have no profound, stern or self-immolating denial in them. Their gain is of the world. How much of these destructive elements, esteemed by men, does the devil bring into the church, until all the high, unworldly and holy aims, and heavenly objects of the church are retired and forgotten?
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
February 20, 2004
Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God's people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
June 24, 2004
Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
January 23, 2005
The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious touch with the Father; the heart is always going out to Him in loving communion, and the moment the mind is released from the task upon which it is engaged, it returns as naturally to God as the bird does to its nest. What a beautiful conception of prayer we get if we regard it in this light.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
February 25, 2005
The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
July 24, 2005
Why grow we weary when asked to watch with our Lord? Up, sluggish heart, Jesus calls thee! Rise and go forth to meet the Heavenly Friend in the place where He manifests Himself.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
October 20, 2005
To look back upon the progress of the divine kingdom upon earth is to review revival periods which have come like refreshing showers upon dry and thirsty ground, making the desert to blossom as the rose, and bringing new eras of spiritual life and activity just when the Church had fallen under the influence of the apathy of the times, and needed to be aroused to a new sense of her duty and responsibility.... Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
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The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds on Prayer By E.M. Bounds E.M. Bounds was a living illustration of Paul's exhortation to "pray without ceasing." As a result, the power and purpose of God characterized his ministry to both Civil War soldiers and local congregations. This comprehensive collection of Bounds' writing on prayer will convict your heart of the sin of prayerlessness and compel you to return to your knees. This is one powerful, and remarkably affordable, volume that belongs on every disciple's shelf. Recommended Books by E M Bounds |
The great truths of revelation are neither able to preach nor defend themselves. They must have soldier preachers who proclaim and defend them. They have never conquered as silent force, they have never won as a reserve corps. They are not only to be declared, but put in the front as veteran legions on whose action are staked the empire of God's truth, not as an occasional force, but in the fiercest and most decisive conflict. These are the trained legions that win on every field God's victories.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
August 22, 2006
The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
September 19, 2007
When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to recieve. Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to recieve the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust recieves what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
March 25, 2008
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
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