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Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
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
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E. M. Bounds
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Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.
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The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
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It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
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