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From Power Through Prayer, by E.M. Bounds

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Quote · Strength & Perseverance

The preachers who are the mightiest in their closets with God are the mightiest in their pulpits with men.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

Professional praying chills and kills both preaching and praying.

Quote · Grace & Salvation

The heart is the Saviour of the world. Heads do not save. Genius, brains, brilliancy, strength, natural gifts do not save. The gospel flows through hearts.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

God does not bestow his gifts on the casual or hasty comers and goers.

Quote · Strength & Perseverance

The men of mighty prayer are men of spiritual might. Prayers never die. Brainerd’s whole life was a life of prayer. By day and by night he prayed.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

None but praying leaders can have praying followers. Praying apostles will beget praying saints. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews.

Quote · Faith & Trust

The true ministry is God-touched, God-enabled, and God-made. The Spirit of God is on the preacher in anointing power, the fruit of the Spirit is in his heart, the Spirit of God has vitalized the man and the word; his preaching gives life, gives life as the spring gives life; gives life as the resurrection gives life.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

Without this unction on the preacher the gospel has no more power to propagate itself than any other system of truth.

Quote · Strength & Perseverance

A ministry may be a very thoughtful ministry without prayer; the preacher may secure fame and popularity without prayer; the whole machinery of the preacher’s life and work may be run without the oil of prayer or with scarcely enough to grease one cog; but no ministry can be a spiritual one, securing holiness in the preacher and in his people, without prayer being made an evident and controlling force.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

No learning can make up for the failure to pray.

Quote · Faith & Trust

Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a minister.

Quote · Strength & Perseverance

Prayer, much prayer, is the price of preaching unction; prayer, much prayer, is the one, sole condition of keeping this unction. Without unceasing prayer the unction never comes to the preacher. Without perseverance in prayer, the unction, like the manna overkept, breeds worms.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

Prayer makes the man; prayer makes the preacher; prayer makes the pastor.

Quote · Faith & Trust

Prayer, to the preacher, is not simply the duty of his profession, a privilege, but it is a necessity. Air is not more necessary to the lungs than prayer is to the preacher. It is absolutely necessary for the preacher to pray.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

Almost any man of common intelligence has sense enough to preach the gospel, but very few have grace enough to do so.

Quote · Faith & Trust

Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of prayer. Prayer and devotion are united as soul and body are united, as life and the heart are united.

Quote · Faith & Trust

No amount of money, genius, or culture can move things for God.

Quote · Strength & Perseverance

Prayer is put first, and their relation to prayer is put most strongly—give themselves to it, making a business of it, surrendering themselves to praying, putting fervor, urgency, perseverance, and time in it. How holy, apostolic men devoted themselves to this divine work of prayer!

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

We live shabbily because we pray meanly.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

This unction is the art of preaching. The preacher who never had this unction never had the art of preaching. The preacher who has lost this unction has lost the art of preaching. This unction vitalizes God’s revealed truth, makes it living and life-giving.

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