Men are God’s method. The church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
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Progress of God’s Kingdom – EM Bounds
When we calmly reflect upon the fact that the progress of our Lord’s kingdom is dependent upon prayer, it is sad to think that we give so little time to the holy exercise.
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Pressing and Pursuing Prayer – EM Bounds
Our praying needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage that never fails.
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Prayer is a Sacrificial Offering – EM Bounds
Prayer in its highest form of faith is that prayer which carries the whole man as a sacrificial offering. Thus devoting the whole man himself to his all, to God in a definite, intelligent vow, never to be broken, in a quenchless and in passioned desire for heaven.
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God shapes the world by prayer – EM Bounds
God shapes the world by prayer.
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Faith and prayer – EM Bounds
When faith ceases to pray, it ceases to live.
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Trust and Faith – EM Bounds
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.
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The Fruit of Prayer – EM Bounds
Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.
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God’s Plan for Prayer – EM Bounds
Prayer is God’s plan to supply man’s great and continuous need with God’s great and continuous abundance.
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