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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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• We can do nothing without prayer.

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  Prayer, Can Do, Nothingness

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.

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  Prayer, Preparation, Essentials

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

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  Order, Gains, Christ

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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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