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• Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer. We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours in the study.

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  Prayer, Giving, Perfect

  "Power Through Prayer".

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• God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

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  Two, Church, Insincerity

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• Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct.

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  Prayer, Character, Thinking

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• I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.

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  God, Christian, Religious

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

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• God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

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  Prayer, World, Shapes

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, 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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• Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.

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  Men, Mold, Saint

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Bread for today is bread enough.

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  Today, Bread, Enough

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1929). “The Necessity of Prayer”, p.14, Fig

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• Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.

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  Perseverance, Prayer, Heart

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

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• Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

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  Prayer, Honor, Aids

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.30, CCEL

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• It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

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  Prayer, Passion, Heart

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.12, CCEL

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• We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

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  Prayer, Delight, Privilege

  "Purpose in Prayer".

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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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• The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

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  Prayer, Names, Ministry

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• Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

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  Prayer, Men, Praying

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

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• Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Real

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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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• Prayer succeeds when all else fails

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  Christian, Prayer, Succeed

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.52, CCEL

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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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• Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.

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  Prayer, Men, Voice

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• Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.

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  Christian, Doe, Impossible

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

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• A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

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  Prayer, Doe, Holy

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.32, 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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• 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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• 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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