E.M. Bounds

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41.) Prayer and Praying Men, 5 - ELIJAH, THE PRAYING PROPHET
      "I have known men," says Goodwin-it must have been himself-"who came to God for nothing else but just to come to Him, they so loved Him. They scorned to soil Him and themselves with any other errand than just purely to be alone with Him in His presence. Friendship is best kept up, even among men, by frequent visits; and the more free and defecate t ...read more

42.) Prayer and Praying Men, 6 - HEZEKIAH, THE PRAYING KING
      One can form a habit of study until the will seems to be at rest and only the intellect is engaged, the will having retired altogether from exercise. This is not true of real praying. If the affections are laggard, cold, indifferent, if the intellect is furnishing no material to clothe the petition with imagery and fervor, the prayer is a mere vapo ...read more

43.) Prayer and Praying Men, 7 - EZRA, THE PRAYING REFORMER
      Before the Great War there were many signs of a new interest in PRAYER and new hope from its exercise. How these signs have multiplied is known to every one. This one thing at least that is good the War has done for us already. Let us not miss our opportunity. Prayer is not an easy exercise. It requires encouragement, exposition, and training. Ther ...read more

44.) Prayer and Praying Men, 8 - NEHEMIAH, THE PRAYING BUILDER
      We care not for your splendid abilities as a minister, or your natural endowment as an orator before men. We are sure that the truth of the matter is this: No one will or can command success and become a real praying soul unless intense application is the price. I am even now convinced that the difference between the saints like Wesley, Fletcher, E ...read more

45.) Prayer and Praying Men, 9 - SAMUEL, THE CHILD OF PRAYER
      That was a grand action by Jerome, one of the Roman fathers. He laid aside all pressing engagements and went to fulfill the call God gave him, viz., to translate the Holy Scriptures. His congregations were larger than many preachers of today but he said to his people, "Now it is necessary that the Scriptures be translated; you must find you another ...read more

46.) Prayer and Praying Men, 10 - DANIEL, THE PRAYING CAPTIVE
      It is a wonderful historical fact that the men of prayer have always been the men of power in the world. I want to convince you about this. Some of you men-and I am glad to see such a large number of men here tonight-if you are arguing with some friend in the workshop, be sure and ask him why it is that the men of power in the world have been the m ...read more

47.) Prayer and Praying Men, 11 - FAITH OF SINNERS IN PRAYER
      A certain preacher whose sermons converted many souls received a revelation from God that it was not his sermons or works by all means but the prayers ofan illiterate lay brother who sat on the pulpit steps pleading for the success of the sermon. It may be in the all-revealing day so with us. We may believe after laboring long and wearily that all ...read more

48.) Prayer and Praying Men, 12 - PAUL, THE TEACHER OF PRAYER
      Fletcher of Madeley, a great teacher of a century and a half ago, used to lecture to the young theological students. He was one of the fellow-workers with Wesley and a man of most saintly character. When he had lectured on one of the great topics of the Word of God, such as the Fullness of God's Holy Spirit or on the power and blessing that He mean ...read more

49.) Prayer and Praying Men, 13 - PAUL AND HIS PRAYING
      In the life of Frank Crossley it is told how one day in 1888 he had said good-bye at the station to his friends, General and Mrs. Booth; but before they steamed out he handed a letter to them giving details of a sacrifice he had resolved to make for the Army. He came home and was praying alone. "As I was praying," he said, "there came over me the m ...read more

50.) Prayer and Praying Men, 14 - PAUL AND HIS PRAYING (Continued)
      William Law has this very pertinent word in his "Devout Life": "When you begin your petitions use such various expressions of the attributes of God as may make you most sensible of the greatness and power of the Divine nature?" And then William Law gives various examples, which I am bound to say would not be helpful to me, as they would imprison my ...read more

51.) Prayer and Praying Men, 15 - PAUL AND HIS REQUESTS FOR PRAYER
      I desire above all things to learn to pray. We want to sound the reveille for the Christian warriors. We desire to find truth of the lack of real praying. What is it? Why is it? Why so little time spent in prayer when Christ, who had command of His time, chose to spend great part of it in INTERCESSION? "He ever liveth to make intercession for us." ...read more

52.) Prayer and Praying Men, 16 - PAUL AND HIS REQUESTS FOR PRAYER (Continued)
      We announce the law of prayer as follows: A Christian's prayer is a joint agreement of the will and his cabinet, the emotions, the conscience, the intellect, working in harmony at white heat, while the body co-operates under certain hygienic conditions to make the prayer long enough sustained at high voltage to insure tremendous results, supernatur ...read more

53.) Prayer and the House of God
      PRAYER stands related to places, times, occasions and circumstances. It has to do with God and with everything which is related to God, and it has an intimate and special relationship to his house. A church is a sacred place, set apart from all unhallowed and secular uses, for the worship of God. As worship is prayer, the house of God is a place se ...read more

54.) Prayer and the Promises
      WITHOUT the promise prayer is eccentric and baseless. Without prayer, the promise is dim, voiceless, shadowy, and impersonal. The promise makes prayer dauntless and irresistible. The apostle Peter declares that God has given to us "exceeding great and precious promises." "Precious" and "exceeding great" promises they are, and for this very cause we ...read more

55.) Prayer and the Promises (continued)
      THE great promises find their fulfillment along the lines of prayer. They inspire prayer, and through prayer the promises flow out to their full realization and bear their ripest fruit. The magnificent and sanctifying promise in Ezekiel, thirty-sixth chapter, a promise finding its full, ripe, and richest fruit in the New Testament, is an illustr ...read more

56.) Prayer and the Word of God
      GOD'S Word is a record of prayer-of praying men and their achievements, of the divine warrant of prayer and of the encouragement given to those who pray. No one can read the instances, commands, examples, multiform statements which concern themselves with prayer, without realizing that the cause of God, and the success of his work in this world, is ...read more

57.) Prayer and the Word of God (continued)
      PRAYER has all to do with the success of the preaching of the Word. This, Paul clearly teaches in that familiar and pressing request he made to the Thessalonians: Finally, brethren, pray for us that the Word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified. Prayer opens the way for the Word of God to run without let or hindrance, and create ...read more

58.) Prayer and Trouble
      TROUBLE and prayer are closely related to other. Prayer is of great value to trouble. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble. There is great value in prayer in the time of trouble. Prayer often delivers out of trouble, and still oftener gives strength to bear trouble, ministers comfort in trouble, ...read more

59.) Prayer and Trouble (Continued)
      IN the New Testament there are three words used which embrace trouble. These are tribulation, suffering and affliction, words differing somewhat, and yet each of them practically meaning trouble of some kind. Our Lord put his disciples on notice that they might expect tribulation in this life, teaching them that tribulation belonged to this world, ...read more