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Power Through Prayer

Men Are God's Method

Other titles: Preacher and Prayer

E. M. Bounds · 1835–1913

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E. M. Bounds wrote for preachers, and his argument is single: the Church is looking for better methods, but God is looking for better men. In twenty short chapters, each opening with the words of an earlier praying man, he presses the case that a sermon's power is made in the closet before it is made in the study, and that unction — which no learning, genius or eloquence can win — is bought with much prayer or not at all. Bracing, and hard to read comfortably.

Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two; your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourself to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from
From Men of Prayer Needed

Contents

  1. 1 Men of Prayer Needed 8 min
  2. 2 Our Sufficiency Is of God 5 min
  3. 3 The Letter Killeth 5 min
  4. 4 Tendencies to Be Avoided 5 min
  5. 5 Prayer, the Great Essential 5 min
  6. 6 A Praying Ministry Successful 5 min
  7. 7 Much Time Should Be Given to Prayer 5 min
  8. 8 Examples of Praying Men 5 min
  9. 9 Begin the Day with Prayer 3 min
  10. 10 Prayer and Devotion United 5 min
  11. 11 An Example of Devotion 6 min
  12. 12 Heart Preparation Necessary 5 min
  13. 13 Grace from the Heart Rather than the Head 4 min
  14. 14 Unction a Necessity 4 min
  15. 15 Unction, the Mark of True Gospel Preaching 5 min
  16. 16 Much Prayer the Price of Unction 5 min
  17. 17 Prayer Marks Spiritual Leadership 6 min
  18. 18 Preachers Need the Prayers of the People 7 min
  19. 19 Deliberation Necessary to Largest Results from Prayer 7 min
  20. 20 A Praying Pulpit Begets a Praying Pew 4 min

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