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• We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

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  Jesus, Prayer, Teaching

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.37, CCEL

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• 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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  Beautiful, Christian, Strong

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• We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

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  Prayer, Overcoming, Done

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.37, CCEL

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• The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.

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  Prayer, Order, Needs

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• No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray...How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that the almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the prayers of His people.

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  Prayer, People, World

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• The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.

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  Prayer, Promise, Limits

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• God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.

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  Prayer, Heaven, Saint

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• God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

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  Prayer, Children, Evil

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.104, CCEL

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• Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

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  Prayer, Men, Earth

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• Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

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  Strong, Prayer, Men

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.39, CCEL

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• There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our "to do" lists.

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  Christian, Prayer, Church

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• Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.

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  Prayer, Preparation, Essentials

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• Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

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  Letting Go, Perseverance, Jesus

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.41, CCEL

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• By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.

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  Prayer, Law, Speak

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• Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.

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  Real, Men, Talking

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

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  Christian, Sweet, Prayer

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

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  Christian, Men, Needs

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists who will set the saints to this business of praying. We are not a generation of praying saints. Who will restore this breach? The greatest will he be of reformers who can set the Church to praying.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Leader

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• We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.

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  Order, Gains, Christ

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• Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace.

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  Prayer, Grace, Walking With God

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.27, CCEL

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• The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

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  Lasts, Firsts, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.31, CCEL

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• The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

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  Prayer, Evil, Generations

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.4, CCEL

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• The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.

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  Monday, Prayer, Sunday

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• Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.

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  Prayer, Hands

  Edward McKendree Bounds, Lyle W. Dorsett (1991). “E.M. Bounds: Man of Prayer”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

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  Prayer, Study, Praying

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