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The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

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
Preaching
Determine
Praying
Makes
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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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Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
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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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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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The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.
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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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It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.
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Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again.
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It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.
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Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.
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Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.
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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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It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
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No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire no prayer without flame.
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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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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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Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
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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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