Power Through Prayer

Collected here in this 8-in-1 omnibus edition are all of E. M. Bounds’ powerful books. No one else wrote with such power and authority on prayer. These classic books continue to inspire and instruct us on all aspects of prayer and its uses in everyday Christian life.

Power Through Prayer (1st book in this volume) teaches readers that prayer is much more than just another thing to cross off their lists each day. This guidebook provides believers with information about the most effective ways to use prayer to better understand God’s word, fully appreciate divine power, and more deeply commune with God. Power Through Prayer has the potential to transform a static but faithful Christian life into one that is dynamic, ever-changing, and always learning.

Favorite Quotes

  1. Men are God’s method.  The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men (7).
  2. His ministry may draw people to him, to the Church, to the form and ceremony; but not true drawings to God, no sweet, holy, divine communion induced (13).
  3. Preachers who are great thinkers, great students must be the greatest of prayers, or else they will be the greatest of backsliders, heartless professionals, rationalistic, less than the least of preachers in God’s estimate (14).
  4. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking him the rest of the day.  If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, he will be in the last place the remainder of the day (24).
  5. Our laziness after God is our crying sin (25).
  6. Prayers never die (29).
  7. What of unction?  It is the indefinable in preaching which makes it preaching.  It is that which distinguishes and separates preaching from all human addresses (37).
  8. Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great.  Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment, a more powerful energy than earnestness of genius or thought to break the chains of sin, to win estranged and depraved hearts to God, to repair the breaches and restore the Church to her old ways of purity and power.  Nothing but holy unction can do this (38).
  9. Hell has enlarged herself and filled her dire caves in the presence of the dead service of a prayer less Church (42).
  10. To be little with God is to be little for God (48).
  11. Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter; but capacity for faith, the ability to pray, the power of thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one’s self in God’s glory, and an ever-present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God – men who can set the Church ablaze for God; not in a noisy, showy way, but with an intense and quiet heat that melts and moves everything for God (51).