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" It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God. "

Edward McKendree Bounds

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" If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and prevents Him from working. "

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" The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God's Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river. "

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" Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty. "

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" Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer. "

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" In the Bible, we have the facts and history of man's redemption. Incidentally or essentially, other worlds and other beings are brought prominently on the stage of redemption purposes and plans. "

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" The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christ's glorious body. "

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" The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere. "

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" 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. "

Edward McKendree Bounds

" Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social position. Those who must be placed in the forefront of the Church's business must be, first of all, men who know how to pray. "

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" In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the church, in the closet, in the home, on sacred days and on secular days. "

Edward McKendree Bounds

" Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying. "

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" We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit. "

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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. "

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" Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage. "

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" While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind. "

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" Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions. "

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" It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God. "

Edward McKendree Bounds

" 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

" The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character. "

Edward McKendree Bounds

" Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one's personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness. "

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" The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men. "

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" Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray. "

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" 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. "

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" Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer. "

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" Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results. "

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" The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer. "

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" The men to whom Jesus Christ committed the fortunes and destiny of His Church were men of prayer. To no other kind of men has God ever committed Himself in this world. "

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" A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable. "

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" The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself. "

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" The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows. "

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