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Learn the secrets of effective prayer for every need. The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds on Prayer is the definitive Bounds collection in modern English. Eight classic explorations cover every aspect of prayer in a readable way. Included in this volume are 120 entries on what this great pastoral leader taught about the essentials, necessity, possibilities, power, purpose, reality, and weapon of prayer. Because Bounds so diligently practiced what he preached, he was able to capture the essence of prayer and his works live on to call today's Christians to higher discipleship and more energetic prayer lives.

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Philosophie et théologie

Prayer

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 mars 2004
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781441212733
Langue	English

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Compilation © 1990 by Baker Books Foreword © 2004 by Jim Cymbala

Published by Baker Books a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 www.bakerbooks.com

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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Foreword
Publisher’s Preface
Introduction
Book One: The Necessity of Prayer
1. Prayer and Faith
2. Prayer and Faith (Continued)
3. Prayer and Trust
4. Prayer and Desire
5. Prayer and Fervency
6. Prayer and Importunity
7. Prayer and Importunity (Continued)
8. Prayer and Character and Conduct
9. Prayer and Obedience
10. Prayer and Obedience (Continued)
11. Prayer and Vigilance
12. Prayer and the Word of God
13. Prayer and the Word of God (Continued)
14. Prayer and the House of God
Book Two: The Essentials of Prayer
1. Prayer Takes In the Whole Man
2. Prayer and Humility
3. Prayer and Devotion
4. Prayer, Praise, and Thanksgiving
5. Prayer and Trouble
6. Prayer and Trouble (Continued)
7. Prayer and God’s Work
8. Prayer and Consecration
9. Prayer and a Definite Religious Standard
10. Prayer Born of Compassion
11. Concerted Prayer
12. The Universality of Prayer
13. Prayer and Missions
Book Three: The Possibilities of Prayer
1. The Ministry of Prayer
2. Prayer and the Promises
3. Prayer and the Promises (Continued)
4. Prayer Its Possibilities
5. Prayer Its Possibilities (Continued)
6. Prayer Its Possibilities (Continued)
7. Prayer Its Wide Range
8. Prayer Facts and History
9. Prayer Facts and History (Continued)
10. Answered Prayer
11. Answered Prayer (Continued)
12. Answered Prayer (Continued)
13. Prayer Miracles
14. Wonders of God Through Prayer
15. Prayer and Divine Providence
16. Prayer and Divine Providence (Continued)
Book Four: The Reality of Prayer
1. Prayer A Privilege, Princely, Sacred
2. Prayer Fills Man’s Poverty with God’s Riches
3. Prayer The All-Important Essence of Earthly Worship
4. God Has Everything to Do with Prayer
5. Jesus Christ, the Divine Teacher of Prayer
6. Jesus Christ, the Divine Teacher of Prayer (Continued)
7. Jesus Christ, an Example of Prayer
8. Prayer Incidents in the Life of Our Lord
9. Prayer Incidents in the Life of Our Lord (Continued)
10. Our Lord’s Model Prayer
11. Our Lord’s High-Priestly Prayer
12. The Gethsemane Prayer
13. The Holy Spirit and Prayer
14. The Holy Spirit, Our Helper in Prayer
15. The Two Comforters and Two Advocates
16. Prayer and the Holy Spirit Dispensation
Book Five: Purpose in Prayer
1. Prayer Is a Keynote
2. Prayer Can Change God’s Purpose
3. Prayer Has Conditions
4. Attitudes Regarding Prayer
5. Prayer Has No Substitutes
6. Characteristics of True Prayer
7. Pray Always
8. Men Are Called to Pray
9. The Possibilities of True Prayer
10. Hindrances to Prayer
11. Prayer Opens Up Divine Resources
12. Prayer Undergirds Revivals
13. Christ Commanded Us to Pray
Book Six: The Weapon of Prayer
1. God Says Prayer Is Essential
2. Putting God to Work
3. The Necessity for Praying Men
4. God’s Need of Men Who Pray
5. Prayerless Christians
6. Praying Men Are at a Premium
7. The Ministry and Prayer
8. Prayerlessness in the Pulpit
9. Prayer Equipment for Preachers
10. The Preacher’s Cry: “Pray for Us!”
11. Modern Examples of Prayer
12. Modern Examples of Prayer (Continued)
Book Seven: Power Through Prayer
1. Men of Prayer Are Needed
2. Our Sufficiency Is of God
3. The Letter Killeth
4. Tendencies to Be Avoided
5. Prayer, the Great Essential
6. A Praying Ministry Is Successful
7. Much Time Should Be Given to Prayer
8. Examples of Praying Men
9. Begin the Day with Prayer
10. Prayer and Devotion United
11. An Example of Devotion
12. Heart Preparation Is Necessary
13. Grace from the Heart Rather than the Head
14. Unction, a Necessity
15. Unction, the Mark of True Gospel Preaching
16. Much Prayer Is the Price of Unction
17. Prayer Marks Spiritual Leadership
18. Preachers Need the Prayers of the People
19. Deliberation Is Necessary for Largest Results from Prayer
20. A Praying Pulpit Begets a Praying Pew
Book Eight: Prayer and Praying Men
1. Praying Saints of the Old Testament
2. Praying Saints of the Old Testament (Continued)
3. Abraham, the Man of Prayer
4. Moses, the Mighty Intercessor
5. Elijah, the Praying Prophet
6. Hezekiah, the Praying King
7. Ezra, the Praying Reformer
8. Nehemiah, the Praying Builder
9. Samuel, the Child of Prayer
10. Daniel, the Praying Captive
11. Faith of Sinners in Prayer
12. Paul, the Teacher of Prayer
13. Paul and His Praying
14. Paul and His Praying (Continued)
15. Paul and His Requests for Prayer
16. Paul and His Requests for Prayer (Continued)
Back Cover
Foreword
I T won’t be until Christians are gathered for eternity in heaven that we will understand and appreciate the ministry of E. M. Bounds. Only then will the vast spiritual influence of his life of prayer be fully felt and I myself will be one of the vast multitudes who gather to express their gratitude.
How many Christians have found hope to press on in faith because this simple man wrote so powerfully from his own heart! And how many pastors, teachers, and evangelists were inspired to approach the throne of grace with boldness because of a preacher whom they never heard deliver a single sermon!
No writer outside of Scripture ever said more in short powerful sentences than E. M. Bounds. In our present day of spiritual murkiness and bland sermonizing from the Bible, we need to listen again to the fiery clarity of this prophet of prayer:
Nothing distinguishes the children of God so clearly and strongly as prayer. It is the one infallible mark and test of being a Christian. Christian people are prayerful, the worldly-minded, prayerless. Christians call on God; worldlings ignore God, and call not on his name. Prayer is the expression of a relation to God, a yearning for divine communion. It is the outward and upward flow of the inward life toward its original fountain. It is an assertion of the soul’s paternity, a claiming of the sonship which links man to the eternal.
E. M. Bounds was born in 1835 and died seventy-eight years later. Although educated as a lawyer, he left his practice at the age of twenty-four to obey God’s call to preach his Word. Although he was the spiritual product of an old-fashioned Methodist/holiness atmosphere, his insight into what really matters in living for Christ transcends any particular denomination or doctrinal setting. He is a man for all ages and his inspired pen stands in stark contrast to the transient novelties of past decades that have misled God’s church away from her only source of power.
The mind and spirit of E. M. Bounds inevitably cause one of two reactions. He is either an inspiration that drives us to God with a fresh sense of our own need or a simplistic, overly emotional fanatic who bothers our lukewarm interpretation of the Christian life. He is never a congenial spiritual backslapper who bids us go on our merry way. Reading E. M. Bounds is like coming near a blazing fire on a cold winter night you either stand near to enjoy its warmth or move away because the flame seems too much to bear.
Only two of his books were in print when Bounds died, but all who knew him personally were aware that he walked with God. A praying man or woman always leaves that distinct impression upon others. As you read these pages, you will have a chance to meet this godly man and be exposed to his radical conviction that Almighty God still loves to hear his people pour out their hearts to him in prayer and has promised to respond with blessing and power. Whether you and I are familiar with this kind of faith is beside the point. The real question is whether it is truth found in God’s Eternal Word. I’m sure you’ll see that it is firmly rooted in Scripture and that is why E. M. Bounds, though dead, still speaks to us today.
Pastor Jim Cymbala The Brooklyn Tabernacle
Publisher’s Preface
F OR almost a century Edward McKendree Bounds’s books on prayer have been classic works, stimulating and inspiring Christians to become prayer warriors. A forceful writer and very deep thinker, Bounds spent the last seventeen years of his life reading, writing, and praying. He rose at 4 A.M. daily for many years and was indefatigable in his study of the Bible.
As breathing is a physical reality to us, so prayer was a reality for Bounds. He took the command, “Pray without ceasing,” almost as literally as animate nature takes the law of the reflex nervous system, which controls our breathing.
Because Bounds so diligently practiced what he preached, he was able to capture the essence of prayer, and his works live on to call today’s Christians to higher discipleship and an energetic prayer life.
Baker Book House is pleased to present this compilation of Bounds’s exquisite works on prayer.
Book seven in this compilation, Power Through Prayer, was first published in 1907 with the title Preacher and Prayer. All type has been reset, and archaic words have been modernized, but we have been careful not to dim the intense spirit and clear challenges of this godly man who lived to pray and write about prayer.
Introduction
E DWARD M C K ENDREE B OUNDS was born in northeastern Missouri on August 15, 1835. His father was instrumental in organizing Shelby County, Missouri, and was an original landholder in the county seat, Shelbyville. Bo