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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. "

Edward McKendree Bounds
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" 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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God
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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. "
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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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