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When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Edward McKendree Bounds
Age: 78 †
Born: 1835
Born: August 15
Died: 1913
Died: August 24
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Shelby County
Missouri
E. M. Bounds
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. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
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That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.
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Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
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That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.
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Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.
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We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.
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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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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
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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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Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.
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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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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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Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.
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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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Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
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A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
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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 concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.
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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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