E.M. Bounds

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101.) The Reality of Prayer, 10 - OUR LORD'S MODEL PRAYER
      What satisfaction must it be to learn from God Himself with what words and in what manner, He would have us pray to Him so as not to pray in vain! We do not sufficiently consider the value of this prayer; the respect and attention which it requires; the preference to be given to it; its fulness and perfection; the frequent use we should make of it; ...read more

102.) The Reality of Prayer, 11 - OUR LORD'S SACERDOTAL PRAYER
      Jesus closes His life with inimitable calmness, confidence and sublimity. "I have glorified Thee; I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do." The annals of earth have nothing comparable to it in real security and sublimity. May we come to our end thus, in supreme loyalty to Christ.-Edward Bounds We come now to consider our Lord's Sacer ...read more

103.) The Reality of Prayer, 12 - THE GETHSEMANE PRAYER
      The cup! the cup! the cup! Our Lord did not use many words: but He used His few words again and again, till this cup! and Thy will!-Thy will be done, and this cup-was all His prayer. "The cup! The cup! The cup!" cried Christ: first on His feet: and then on His knees: and then on His face. . . . "Lord, teach us to pray!"-Alexander Whyte, D.D. We ...read more

104.) The Reality of Prayer, 13 - THE HOLY SPIRIT AND PRAYER
      During the great Welsh Revival a minister was said to be very successful in winning souls by one sermon that he preached-hundreds were converted. Far away in a valley news reached a brother minister of the marvelous success of this sermon. He desired to find out the secret of the man's great success.-He walked the long way, and came to the minister ...read more

105.) The Reality of Prayer, 14 - THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR HELPER IN PRAYER
      We must pray in the Spirit., in the Holy Ghost, if we would pray at all. Lay this, I beseech you, to heart. Do not address yourselves to prayer as to a work to be accomplished in your own natural strength. It is a work of God, of God the Holy Ghost, a work of His in you and by you, and in which you must be fellow-workers with Him-but His work notwi ...read more

106.) The Universality of Prayer
      PRAYER is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in all things. It touches man's interest in time and eternity. It lays hold upon God and moves him to interfere in the affairs of earth. It moves the angels to minister to men in this life. It restrains and defeats the ...read more

107.) The Weapon of Prayer, 1 - PRAYER ESSENTIAL TO GOD
      "Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. 14th verse: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."-Isaiah 58:9. It must never be forg ...read more

108.) The Weapon of Prayer, 2 - PUTTING GOD TO WORK
      "For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God beside thee who worketh for him that waiteth for him."-Isaiah 64:4. The assertion voiced in the title given this chapter is but another way of declaring that God has of His own motion placed Himself under the law of prayer, and has obligated Himself to ...read more

109.) The Weapon of Prayer, 3 - THE NECESSITY FOR PRAYING MEN
      Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints."-Ephes. 6:18. "Without praying for us also that God would open unto us a door of utterance to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am in bonds: that I may make it manifest as I ought to speak."-Col. 4:3. ...read more

110.) The Weapon of Prayer, 4 - GOD'S NEED OF MEN WHO PRAY
      "We do what He commands. We go where He wants us to go. We speak what He wants us to speak. His will is our law. His pleasure our joy. He is, today, seeking the lost and He would have us seek with Him. He is shepherding the lambs and He wants our cooperation. He is opening doors in heathen lands, and He wants our money and our prayers."-Anon. We ...read more

111.) The Weapon of Prayer, 5 - PRAYERLESS CHRISTIANS
      "If there was ever a time when Peter, James and John needed to remain awake it was in Gethsemane. If James had persisted in keeping awake it might have saved his decapitation a few years later. If Peter had stirred himself to really intercede for himself and others he would not have denied his Christ that night in the palace of Caiaphas."-H. W. Hod ...read more

112.) The Weapon of Prayer, 6 - PRAYING MEN AT A PREMIUM
      "Our Redeemer was in the Garden of Gethsemane. His hour was come. He felt as if He would be strengthened somewhat, if He had two or three disciples near Him. His three chosen disciples were within a stone's cast of the scene of His agony; but they were all asleep that the Scripture might be fulfilled-'I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the ...read more

113.) The Weapon of Prayer, 7 - THE MINISTRY AND PRAYER
      "Of course the preacher is above all others distinguished as a man of prayer. He prays as an ordinary Christian, else he were a hypocrite. He prays more than ordinary Christians else he were disqualified for the office he has undertaken If you as ministers are not very prayerful you are to be pitied. If you become lax in sacred devotion, not only w ...read more

114.) The Weapon of Prayer, 8 - PRAYERLESSNESS IN THE PULPIT
      "Henry Martyn laments that 'want of private devotional reading and shortness of prayer through incessant sermon-making had produced much strangeness between God and his soul.' He judges that he had dedicated too much time to public ministrations and too little to private communion with God. He was much impressed with the need of setting apart times ...read more

115.) The Weapon of Prayer, 9 - PRAYER-EQUIPMENT FOR PREACHERS
      "Go back! Back to that upper room; back to your knees; back to searching of heart and habit, thought and life; back to pleading, praying, waiting, till the Spirit of the Lord floods the soul with light, and you are endued with power from on high. Then go forth in the power of Pentecost, and the Christ-life shall be lived, and the works of Christ sh ...read more

116.) The Weapon of Prayer, 10 - THE PREACHER'S CRY-PRAY FOR US!
      "That the true apostolic preacher must have the prayers of others-good people to give to his ministry its full quota of success, Paul is a preeminent example. He asks, he covets, he pleads in an impassionate way for the help of all God's saints, He knew that in the spiritual realm as elsewhere, in union there is strength; that the consecration and ...read more

117.) The Weapon of Prayer, 11 - MODERN EXAMPLES OF PRAYER
      "When the dragon-fly rends his husk and harnesses himself, in a clean plate of sapphire mail, his is a pilgrimage of one or two sunny days over the fields and pastures wet with dew, yet nothing can exceed the marvelous beauty in which he is decked. No flowers on earth have a richer blue than the pure colour of his cuirass. So is it in the high spir ...read more

118.) The Weapon of Prayer, 12 - MODERN EXAMPLES OF PRAYER (Continued)
      "Edward Bounds did not merely pray well that he might write well about prayer. He prayed for long years upon subjects to which easy-going Christians rarely give a thought. He prayed for objects which men of less faith are ready to call impossible. Yet from these continental, solitary prayer-vigils, year by year there arose a gift of prayer-teaching ...read more

119.) To Love Jesus
      To love Jesus is to long to be with Him. To love Jesus is to think about Him. To love Jesus is to obey Him, to obey Him readily and implicitly, not feebly and reluctantly. The certainty of heaven is assured when we keep Jesus in the center of our hearts, in the center of our lives. He is to be the author of impulse and desire, of effort and action. ...read more