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E.M. Bounds
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September 11 - December 1, 2019
We live shabbily because we pray meanly.
Our ability to stay with God in our closet measures our ability to stay with God out of the closet.
None but praying leaders can have praying followers.
God wants elect men—men out of whom self and the world have gone by a severe crucifixion, by a bankruptcy which has so totally ruined self and the world that there is neither hope nor desire of recovery; men who by this insolvency and crucifixion have turned toward God perfect hearts.
Nothing is too hard for prayer because nothing is too hard for God.
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.
To pray like Elijah, and to have results like Elijah, is the crying need of the times.
Prayerless praying—how common, how popular, how delusive and vain!
God demands of his church in all ages that it should be separated from the world, a separation so sharp that it amounts to an antagonism.
How few the strong men in these days who can weep at the evils and abominations of the times! How rare those who, seeing the desolations of Zion, are sufficiently interested and concerned for the welfare of the church to mourn!
There is so much of so-called optimism that leaders have no eyes to see the breaking down of the walls of Zion and the low spiritual state of the Christians of the present day, and have less heart to mourn and cry about it:
Fortunate is that church whose leaders are men of prayer.
If more children were born of praying mothers, brought up in direct contact with “the house of prayer,” and reared under prayer environments, more children would hear the voice of God’s spirit speaking to them, and would more quickly respond to those divine calls to a religious life.
Praying Samuels come from praying Hannahs.
Even so today deliverance always come to God’s saints who tread the path of prayer as the saints of old did.
There was no temple worship, no Sabbath Day, no Word of God to be read. But he had one help there which remained with him, and of which he could not be deprived, and that was his secret prayers.
Blessed is that nation which has praying men who can come to the help of civil rulers who are greatly perplexed and in great difficulties, and who can be depended upon to pray for rulers of state and church.
The angels of God are much nearer us in our seasons of prayer than we imagine.
Sad is the day in a Christian land, not only where there is the decay of prayer in the church, but where sinners are so unaffected by the religion of the church that they have no faith in prayer and care little about the prayers of praying men.
The church must give itself to unceasing prayer. Never was prayer to cease in the church. This was the will of God concerning his church on earth.
would it be legitimate to draw the conclusion that the reason why there is so little preaching on prayer in these modern times is because preachers are not praying men?
Pauline praying costs much, is death to self, the flesh, and the world.
The prayerful saint will be a suffering saint. Suffering prayerfully he will be a sweet saint. A praying saint will be a praising saint. Praise is but prayer set to music and song.
God’s mighty providence had opened his prison door and had broken his prison bonds, not to give freedom, but to give freedom to the jailer. God’s providential openings are often to test our ability to stay rather than to go.
Pardon of sin and acceptance with God always come at the end of earnest praying.
Oh, if we had a legion of preachers in these days of superficial piety and these times of prayerlessness, who were given to praying for their churches as Paul did for those to whom he ministered in his day!
