Power Through PrayerPower Through Prayer is a message of meditation based on the Bible and written by Edward McKendree Bounds (August 15, 1835 – August 24, 1913) prominently known as E.M. Bounds, was an American author, attorney, and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South clergy. He is known for writing 11 books, nine of which focused on the subject of prayer. Only two of Bounds' books were published before he died. After his death, Rev. Claudius (Claude) Lysias Chilton, Jr., grandson of William Parish Chilton and admirer of Bounds, worked on preserving and preparing Bounds' collection of manuscripts for publication. By 1921, Homer W. Hodge completed additional editorial work. Edward McKendree Bounds was born on August 15, 1835, in Shelbyville, Missouri. He is the son of Thomas Jefferson and Hester A. (née Purnell) Bounds. In the preface to E.M. Bounds on Prayer, published by Hendrickson Christian Classics Series over 90 years after Bounds' death, it is surmised that young Edward was named after the evangelist, William McKendree, who planted churches in western Missouri and served as the fourth bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was the fifth child, in a family of three sons and three daughters. |
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... God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. "There was a man sent from God whose name was John." The ...
... God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. "There was a man sent from God whose name was John." The ...
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... God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows. The pipe must not only be golden, but open and flawless, that the oil may have a full, unhindered, unwasted flow. The man makes the preacher. God must make ...
... God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows. The pipe must not only be golden, but open and flawless, that the oil may have a full, unhindered, unwasted flow. The man makes the preacher. God must make ...
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... God. If they be timid time servers, place seekers, if they be men pleasers or men fearers, if their faith has a weak ... God's man is made in the closet. His life and his profoundest convictions were born in his secret communion with God ...
... God. If they be timid time servers, place seekers, if they be men pleasers or men fearers, if their faith has a weak ... God's man is made in the closet. His life and his profoundest convictions were born in his secret communion with God ...
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... Paul's ministry. 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. II. OUR SUFFICIENCY IS OF GOD "But above all he.
... Paul's ministry. 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. II. OUR SUFFICIENCY IS OF GOD "But above all he.
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... God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are ... God, who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter ...
... God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are ... God, who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter ...
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