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The Reality of Prayer

The Life That Prays

E. M. Bounds · 1835–1913

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About this book

E. M. Bounds’s meditations on prayer as the reality at the heart of the Christian life — from prayer as a princely privilege, through the praying of Jesus Christ (His example, His model prayer, His high-priestly and Gethsemane prayers), to the Holy Spirit’s part in all true prayer. One of the posthumous “Spiritual Life” volumes, by a man his friends remembered as one who “lived ever on prayer ground.”

I am the creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit come from God and returning to God; just hovering over the great gulf; till a few moments hence I am no more seen; I drop into an unchangeable eternity!
From Prayer—A Privilege, Princely, Sacred

Contents

  1. 1 Prayer—A Privilege, Princely, Sacred 11 min
  2. 2 Prayer—Fills Man’s Poverty with God’s Riches 11 min
  3. 3 Prayer—The All-Important Essence of Earthly Worship 7 min
  4. 4 God Has Everything to Do with Prayer 14 min
  5. 5 Jesus Christ, the Divine Teacher of Prayer 12 min
  6. 6 Jesus Christ, the Divine Teacher of Prayer (Continued) 16 min
  7. 7 Jesus Christ an Example of Prayer 13 min
  8. 8 Prayer Incidents in the Life of Our Lord 8 min
  9. 9 Prayer Incidents in the Life of Our Lord (Continued) 12 min
  10. 10 Our Lord’s Model Prayer 5 min
  11. 11 Our Lord’s Sacerdotal Prayer 12 min
  12. 12 The Gethsemane Prayer 12 min
  13. 13 The Holy Spirit and Prayer 14 min
  14. 14 The Holy Spirit Our Helper in Prayer 12 min
  15. 15 The Two Comforters and Two Advocates 5 min
  16. 16 Prayer and the Holy Ghost Dispensation 14 min

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