American - Author | August 15, 1835 - August 24, 1913
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.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.
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Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.
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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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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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Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.
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In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
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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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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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Men of prayer, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth. No other sort will fit in the scheme or do the deed. Men, great and influential in other things but small in prayer, cannot do the work Almighty God has set out for His Church to do in this, His world.
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The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.
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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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