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God’s Method – EM Bounds

God’s Method – EM Bounds

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

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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Prayer is a Sacrificial Offering – EM Bounds

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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Trust and Faith – EM Bounds

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

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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