Power Through Prayer"What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men men of prayer. from Chapter 1: Men of Prayer Needed Some Christians insist that 19th-century American pastor Edward M. Bounds offered a more profound understanding of prayer for modern believers than any other contemporary religious thinker. This classic book on personal communication with God explores how sincere prayer brings faith to life. It examines prayer, the great essential why a praying ministry will be successful prayer and devotion united an example of devotion the necessity of preparing the heart grace from the heart rather than the head and much more. Seekers of wisdom are sure to find words of truth in this inspirational volume.American Methodist minister and writer EDWARD McKENDREE BOUNDS (1835 1913) served as a chaplain in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He wrote several best-selling books on prayer, including The Necessity of Prayer, Possibilities of Prayer, The Weapon of Prayer, and others." |
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Page 12
... ministry must be molded into and mastered by this same holy motto . It is a crying shame for the Christian ministry to fall lower in holiness of character and holiness of aim than the Jewish priesthood . Jonathan Edwards said : " I went ...
... ministry must be molded into and mastered by this same holy motto . It is a crying shame for the Christian ministry to fall lower in holiness of character and holiness of aim than the Jewish priesthood . Jonathan Edwards said : " I went ...
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... 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 advance God's cause in this world . 2 OUR SUFFICIENCY IS OF GOD The sweetest graces by ...
... 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 advance God's cause in this world . 2 OUR SUFFICIENCY IS OF GOD The sweetest graces by ...
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... testament ; not of the letter , but of the spirit : for the letter killeth , but the spirit giveth life " ( 2 Corinthians 3 : 5-6 ) . The true ministry is God - touched , God - enabled , and God Our Sufficiency Is of God 19.
... testament ; not of the letter , but of the spirit : for the letter killeth , but the spirit giveth life " ( 2 Corinthians 3 : 5-6 ) . The true ministry is God - touched , God - enabled , and God Our Sufficiency Is of God 19.
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... ministry is like the generous flood of a life - giving river . The preaching that kills is nonspiritual preaching . The ability of the preaching is not from God . Lower sources than God have given to it energy and stimulant . The Spirit ...
... ministry is like the generous flood of a life - giving river . The preaching that kills is nonspiritual preaching . The ability of the preaching is not from God . Lower sources than God have given to it energy and stimulant . The Spirit ...
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... ministry may draw people to him , to the church , to the form and ceremony ; but no true drawings to God , no sweet , holy , divine communion in- duced . The church has been frescoed but not edified , pleased but not sanctified . Life ...
... ministry may draw people to him , to the church , to the form and ceremony ; but no true drawings to God , no sweet , holy , divine communion in- duced . The church has been frescoed but not edified , pleased but not sanctified . Life ...
Contents
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Talking to God for Men | 31 |
How to Get Results for God | 39 |
Great Men of Prayer | 47 |
Early Will I Seek Thee | 61 |
The Secret of Power | 67 |
Power Through Prayers | 79 |
Under the Dew of Heaven | 89 |
The Example of the Apostles | 105 |
What God Would Have | 109 |
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