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Power Through Prayer

E. M. Bounds (1835-1913) · Methodist

A call to ministers to make prayer the first work of their lives, by a Methodist pastor and Civil War chaplain. Edited and published after his death.

First published: c. 1907. About 91 minutes to read in 20 parts.

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Contents

1. 11. Men of Prayer Needed
2. 22. Our Sufficiency Is of God
3. 33. The Letter Killeth
4. 44. Tendencies to Be Avoided
5. 55. Prayer, the Great Essential
6. 66. A Praying Ministry Successful
7. 77. Much Time Should Be Given to Prayer
8. 88. Examples of Praying Men
9. 99. Begin the Day with Prayer
10. 1010. Prayer and Devotion United
11. 1111. An Example of Devotion
12. 1212. Heart Preparation Necessary
13. 1313. Grace from the Heart Rather than the Head
14. 1414. Unction a Necessity
15. 1515. Unction, the Mark of True Gospel Preaching
16. 1616. Much Prayer the Price of Unction
17. 1717. Prayer Marks Spiritual Leadership
18. 1818. Preachers Need the Prayers of the People
19. 1919. Deliberation Necessary to Largest Results from Prayer
20. 2020. A Praying Pulpit Begets a Praying Pew

Public domain. The author died more than seventy years ago and the work was published before 1931. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL), lightly formatted for reading in Aide (Scripture references written in Roman numerals are shown in ordinary numerals so they can be tapped). Source: Christian Classics Ethereal Library. The text is as the author wrote it, in the language of his day; spelling and punctuation may differ from today’s. Reading it is not an endorsement of everything it says.