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He who would pray, must obey.

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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Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God's people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ.
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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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A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
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Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.
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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 is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.
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He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.
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Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.
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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 honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
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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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if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
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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 is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
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Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
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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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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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The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
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Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals. True prayer must be aflame.
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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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