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The Essentials of Prayer

What Prayer Requires of the One Who Prays

E. M. Bounds · 1835–1913

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E. M. Bounds on what prayer asks of the one who prays — that it take in the whole man, and be joined to humility, devotion, praise, consecration, and compassion. The companion volume to The Reality of Prayer, gathered from Bounds’s papers after his death, it follows prayer’s reach out into God’s work and the world’s missions.

Contents

  1. 1 Prayer Takes in the Whole Man 12 min
  2. 2 Prayer and Humility 10 min
  3. 3 Prayer and Devotion 11 min
  4. 4 Prayer, Praise and Thanksgiving 12 min
  5. 5 Prayer and Trouble 17 min
  6. 6 Prayer and Trouble (Continued) 9 min
  7. 7 Prayer and God’s Work 15 min
  8. 8 Prayer and Consecration 15 min
  9. 9 Prayer and a Definite Religious Standard 10 min
  10. 10 Prayer Born of Compassion 11 min
  11. 11 Concerted Prayer 12 min
  12. 12 The Universality of Prayer 9 min
  13. 13 Prayer and Missions 18 min

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