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Power Through Prayer is one of EM Bounds many classic works on prayer. He is practical yet spiritual, challenging us to seek God in passionate and unrelenting prayer.
Christ did not come for the righteous but for the sinner and He calls us to pray like he did to the Father in a continual basis. Bounds in this work outlines what kind of heaven and earth shattering effects prayer can have from the individual person to the very ministry that someone...
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Old Testament history is, filled with accounts of praying saints. The leaders of Israel in those early days were, noted for their praying habits. Prayer is the one thing, which stands out prominently in their lives. In this book, E. M. Bounds chronicles the prayer lives of famous biblical men.
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Purpose in Prayer is, a message of meditation, based on the Bible and written by Edward McKendree Bounds (August 15, 1835-August 24, 1913) prominently known as E.M. Bounds, was an American author, attorney, and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South clergy.
He is, known for writing 11 books, nine of which focused on the subject of prayer. Only two of Bounds' books were, published before he died. After his death, Rev. Claudius (Claude) Lysias...
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HOW vast are the possibilities of prayer! How wide is its reach! What great things are accomplished by this divinely appointed means of grace!
It lays its hand on Almighty God and moves Him to do what He would not otherwise do if prayer was not offered. It brings things to pass which would never otherwise occur. The story of prayer is the story of great achievements.
Prayer is a wonderful power placed by Almighty God in the hands of His saints,...
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EDWARD McKENDREE BOUNDS did not merely pray well that he might write well about prayer.
He prayed because the needs of the world were upon him. He prayed, for long years, upon subjects which the easy-going Christian rarely gives a thought, and for objects which men of less thought and faith are always ready to call impossible. From his solitary prayer-vigils, year by year, there arose teaching equaled by few men in modern Christian history. He wrote...
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The word "prayer" expresses the largest and most comprehensive approach unto God. It gives prominence to the element of devotion. It is communion and intercourse with God. It is enjoyment of God. It is access to God. "Supplication" is a more restricted and more intense form of prayer, accompanied by a sense of personal need, limited to the seeking in an urgent manner of a supply for pressing need. "Supplication" is the very soul of prayer in the way...
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Prayer has to do with the entire man. Prayer takes in man in his whole being, mind, soul and body. It takes the whole man to pray, and prayer affects the entire man in its gracious results. As the whole nature of man enters into prayer, so also all that belongs to man is the beneficiary of prayer. All of man receives benefits in prayer. The whole man must be given to God in praying. The largest results in praying come to him who gives himself, all...
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When this sermon was preached, the average listener had a considerably greater attention span than his modern counterpart. The reader may therefore be daunted by the length of the sermon. I had considered abridging it, but finally decided not to.
Some readers will also complain that it gets off to a slow start. This is standard for an extended speech in any context. An experienced speaker intending to speak at length will give his audience a minute...
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John Ross Macduff (23 May 1818-30 April 1895) was a Scottish divine and a prolific author of religious essays. He published many practical and devotional works, which attained a wide circulation.
Born on his father's estate of Bonhard, Scone, Perthshire, Macduff was the second of the six sons of Captain Alexander Macduff of Bonhard and Springfield and Margaret Catherine Ross, youngest daughter of John Ross of Balgersho. Macduff was educated at the...
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“A Call to The Holy Living” is a message of meditation based on the Bible and written by one of the most important Christian writers of all time.
A devotional message of faith and hope for you.
Charles Haddon (CH) Spurgeon,19 June 1834-31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher.
Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers".
He was a strong...
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It has been said by a divine of the seventeenth century, in reference to the portion of the divine word of which this work is an exposition: "Search all the Scripture, you will not find any one chapter into which more excellent, sublime, and evangelical truths are crowded! The Bible is the book of books, and this chapter may be styled the chapter of chapters!
From first to last it is high gospel, all gospel, it is the summation and storehouse of...
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Our Father in Heaven never intended that we, who are his children by regeneration, should live anything else than a life of perfect obedience and trust, for we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ. This means more to us than we may at first realize. In his explanation of the miracle of Pentecost, Peter said (Acts 2:33):
"Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost,...
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Praying in the Holy Spirit is one important bible study about the prayer.
A book that will bring growth and knowledge about prayer and invite him to live with greater intimacy with God.
Written by Charles Spurgeon, important preacher Christian.
Many sermons were transcribed as he spoke and were translated into many languages during his lifetime. Spurgeon produced powerful sermons of penetrating thought and precise exposition. His oratory skills...
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A slight glance at the contents of this volume will convey an idea of its character and design. It is intended to be, not so much a systematic treatise of theology, as the companion, in his hours of devotional, meditative retirement, of the experienced and spiritual Christian.
The truths which it contains, and the style in which they are presented, are perhaps more adapted to those peculiar seasons in the Christian experience of the believer, in...
15) A Happy Old Age
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A Happy Old Age is a message of meditation based on the Bible and written by Ashton Oxenden (20 September 1808 — 22 February 1892) was Bishop of Montreal. Born 20 September 1808, at Broome Park, Kent, he was the fifth son of Sir Henry Oxenden (1756—1838), 7th Baronet Oxenden, of Broome Park;
Commissioner of Dover Harbour. His mother, Mary, was the daughter of Colonel John Graham (1723—1789), of St. Lawrence House, near Canterbury; former...
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Editor's note: This is the best devotional commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes that we have ever, come across! In each verse, which he comments on, George Mylne, first views the verse just as Solomon intended from the perspective of mere human wisdom. That is, the book of Ecclesiastes is simply God's record of the rational conclusions of the wisest and most experienced man, who ever lived. In other words, Solomon seriously thought upon all of life,...
17) Secret Prayer
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Secret Prayer is a message of meditation based on the Bible and written by Hannah More (2 February 1745-7 September 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist, remembered as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist. Born in Bristol, she taught at a school established there by her father and began writing plays.
She became involved...
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"Grace and Truth!" Magnificent and expressive words! Let not the Christian reader unfold these, pages with the extravagant expectation of finding within them anything approaching to a consecutive and elaborate treatise upon these vast and lofty themes.
They have no pretension of this kind. He will be disappointed, looking for this, in meeting with familiar, simple, and unconnected illustrations only, of these great subjects; not, however, the author...
19) Family Prayers
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Family Prayers is a message of meditation based on the Bible and written by John Ross Macduff (23 May 1818-30 April 1895) was a Scottish divine and a prolific author of religious essays. He published many practical and devotional works, which attained a wide circulation.
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JESUS, THE BEST FRIEND!
J.C. Ryle, 1878
"Yes, He is altogether lovely. This is my Beloved, and this is my FRIEND!" Song of Solomon 5:16
"The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say: Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a FRIEND of tax collectors and sinners!" Luke 7:34
A friend is one of the greatest blessings on earth. Tell me not of money love is better than gold, sympathy is better than lands. He is the poor man who has no friends!
This...