E.M. Bounds

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81.) Purpose in Prayer - 7
      I suspect I have been allotting habitually too little time to religious exercises as private devotion, religious meditation, Scripture reading, etc. Hence I am lean and cold and hard. God would perhaps prosper me more in spiritual things if I were to be more diligent in using the means of grace. I had better allot more time, say two hours or an hou ...read more

82.) Purpose in Prayer - 8
      In God's name I beseech you let prayer nourish your soul as your meals nourish your body. Let your fixed seasons of prayer keep you in God's presence through the day, and His presence frequently remembered through it be an ever-fresh spring of prayer. Such a brief, loving recollection of God renews a man's whole being, quiets his passions, supplies ...read more

83.) Purpose in Prayer - 9
      Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of. grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.-John Wesley We must remember that the goal of prayer is the ear of God. Unless that is gained the prayer has utterly failed. The utterings of it m ...read more

84.) Purpose in Prayer - 10
      I look upon all the four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there is in them the reflection of a greatness which emanated from the person of Jesus and which was of as Divine a kind as ever was seen on earth.-Goethe There are no possibilities, no necessity for prayerless praying, a heartless performance, a senseless routine, a dead habit, a hasty ...read more

85.) Purpose in Prayer - 11
      The deepest need of the Church today is not for any material or external thing, but the deepest need is spiritual. Prayerless work will never bring in the kingdom. We neglect to pray in the prescribed way. We seldom enter the closet and shut the door for a season of prayer. Kingdom interests are pressing on us thick and fast and we must pray. Praye ...read more

86.) Purpose in Prayer - 12
      Let your hearts be much set on revivals of religion. Never forget that the churches have hitherto existed and prospered by revivals; and that if they are to exist and prosper in time to come, it must be by the same cause which has from the first been their glory and defence.-Joel Hawes If any minister can be satisfied without conversions, he sha ...read more

87.) Purpose in Prayer - 13
      Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be even like Israel, a prince prevailing with God. Thy name is my passport, and secures me access; Thy name is my plea, and secures me answer; Thy name is my honour and secures me glory. Blessed Name, ...read more

88.) Revivals that Stay
      Revivals are among the charter rights of the church. They are the evidences of its divinity, the tokens of God's presence, the witness of his power. The frequency and power of these extraordinary seasons of grace are the tests and preservers of the vital force in the church. The church which is not visited by these seasons is as sterile in all spir ...read more

89.) Tendencies to Be Avoided
      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 mild and winning temper, ...read more

90.) The Letter Killeth
      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 the Church, I stood approved by my own conscience; but in relation to my Redee ...read more

91.) The Ministry of Prayer
      THE ministry of prayer has been the peculiar distinction of all of God's saints. This has been the secret of their power. The energy and the soul of their work has been the closet. The need of help outside of man being so great, man's natural inability to always judge kindly, justly, and truly, and to act the Golden Rule, so prayer is enjoined by C ...read more

92.) The Reality of Prayer, 1 - PRAYER-A PRIVILEGE, PRINCELY, SACRED
      I am the creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit come from God and returning to God; just hovering over the great gulf; till a few moments hence I am no more seen; I drop into an unchangeable eternity! I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condes ...read more

93.) The Reality of Prayer, 2 - PRAYER-FILLS MAN'S POVERTY WITH GOD'S RICHES
      For two hours I struggled on, forsaken of God, and met neither God nor man, all one chilly afternoon. When at last, standing still and looking at Schiehallion clothed in white from top to bottom, this of David shot up into my heart: "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow!" In a moment I was with God, or rather God was with me. I walked home with ...read more

94.) The Reality of Prayer, 3 - PRAYER-THE ALL-IMPORTANT ESSENCE OF EARTHLY WORSHIP
      Where the spiritual consciousness is concerned-the department which asks the question and demands the evidence-no evidence is competent or relevant except such as is spiritual. Only that which is above matter and above logic can be heard, because the very question at issue is the existence and personality of a spiritual and supernatural God. Only t ...read more

95.) The Reality of Prayer, 4 - GOD HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH PRAYER
      Christ is all. We are complete in Him. He is the answer to every need, the perfect Savior. He needs no decoration to heighten His beauty, no prop to increase His stability, no girding to perfect His strength. Who can gild refined gold, whiten the snow, perfume the rose or heighten the colors of the summer sunset? Who will prop the mountains or help ...read more

96.) The Reality of Prayer, 5 - JESUS CHRIST, THE DIVINE TEACHER OF PRAYER
      A friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him! He knocks again. "Friend! lend me three loaves?" He waits a while and then knocks again. "Friend! I must have three loaves!" "Trouble me not: the door is now shut; I cannot rise and give thee!" He stands still. He turns to go home. He comes back. He knocks again. " ...read more

97.) The Reality of Prayer, 6 - JESUS CHRIST, THE DIVINE TEACHER OF PRAYER (Continued)
      Luke tells us that as Jesus was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, one of His disciples said unto Him, "Lord, teach us to pray." This disciple had heard Jesus preach, but did not feel like saying, "Lord, teach us to preach." He could learn to preach by studying the methods of the Master. But there was something about the praying of Jesus t ...read more

98.) The Reality of Prayer, 7 - JESUS CHRIST AN EXAMPLE OF PRAYER
      Christ, when He saw that He must die, and that nowHis time was come, He wore His body out: He cared not, as it were, what became of Him: He wholly spent Himself in preaching all day, and in praying all night, preaching in the temple those terrible parables and praying in the garden such prayers, as the seventeenth of John, and "Thy will be done!" e ...read more

99.) The Reality of Prayer, 8 - PRAYER INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF OUR LORD
      There was a great cape at the south of Africa and so many storms and so much loss of life until it was called the Cape of Death. One day in 1789a bold navigator shoved the prow of his vessel into the storms that thundered around it and found a calm sea. He then named it the Cape of Good Hope. So there is a cape that jutted out from earth into the s ...read more