Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there. Edward McKendree Bounds More Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds More Quotes From Edward McKendree Bounds Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber. Edward McKendree Bounds spirit prayer moving Bread for today is bread enough. Edward McKendree Bounds enough bread today We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty. Edward McKendree Bounds delight privilege prayer Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other. Edward McKendree Bounds holy prayer absence Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds perseverance prayer jesus God shapes the world by prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds shapes prayer world Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Edward McKendree Bounds half prayer heaven The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. Edward McKendree Bounds done prayer men God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness. Edward McKendree Bounds insincerity church two Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying. Edward McKendree Bounds praying prayer littles There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our "to do" lists. Edward McKendree Bounds church prayer christian That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents. Edward McKendree Bounds hero prayer men Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a 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. Edward McKendree Bounds educational self prayer The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer order needs God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them. Edward McKendree Bounds shapes prayer world Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds bounds plenty prayer Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in all things. It touches man's interest in time and eternity. It lays hold upon God and moves Him to interfere in the affairs of earth. It moves the angels to minister to men in this life. It restrains and defeats the devil in his schemes to ruin man. Prayer goes everywhere and lays its hand upon everything. Edward McKendree Bounds angel prayer moving Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer answers mind It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God. Edward McKendree Bounds christian men needs We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances. Edward McKendree Bounds done prayer overcoming
