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• God's Word does not say, "Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing." Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: "Ask, and it shall be given unto you."

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  Sweet, Art, Knowing

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• Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

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  Prayer, Powerful, Littles

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• Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.

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  Prayer, Energy, Needs

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1976). “The necessity of prayer”, Baker Pub Group

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• Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

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  Men, Heaven, Tasks

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• Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

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  Prayer, Wealth, All Things

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.14, CCEL

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• In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

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  Prayer, Men, Praying

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• Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

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  Men, Giving, Preaching

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.11, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

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  Prayer, Heaven, Half

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.38, CCEL

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• God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.

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  Prayer, Men, Vices

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• Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

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  Perseverance, Jesus, Prayer

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

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• We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

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  Prayer, Favors, Privilege

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• The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

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  Character, Light, Praying

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• True praying has the largest results for good; and poor praying, the least. We cannot do too much of real praying; we cannot do too little of the sham. We must learn anew the worth of prayer, enter anew the school of prayer. There is nothing which it takes more time to learn.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Motivation

  "Power Through Prayer".

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• The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

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  Prayer, Men, Purpose

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

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• A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

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  Prayer, Growing, Purity

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.76, CCEL

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• Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

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  Prayer, Office, Doe

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.76, CCEL

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• Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.

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  Use, Reason, Revelations

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

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• The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.

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  Jesus, Resurrection, Conquer

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1907). “The Resurrection”

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• Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

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  Prayer, Lawlessness, Anarchy

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.6, CCEL

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• Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.

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  Prayer, Air, Evil

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

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  Prayer, Humility, Pride

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

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  Thrones, Bows, Trouble

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• Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.

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  Christian, Prayer, Heaven

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.17, CCEL

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• He who would pray, must obey.

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  Praying, Christianity

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1929). “The Necessity of Prayer”, p.139, Fig

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• It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

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  Prayer, Routine, Gone

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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