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E.M.Bounds

  • Emelia Cohen-Alexanderje citiralaпре 2 године
    pray so that our prayers take hold of God. The man who has done the most and the best praying is the most immortal, because prayers do not die. Perhaps the lips that uttered them are closed in death, or the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God’s heart is set on them. Prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them—outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.
    Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice that goes into God’s ear, and it lives as long as God’s ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God’s heart is alive to holy things.
  • Emelia Cohen-Alexanderje citiralaпре 2 године
    God shapes the world by prayer. The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be and the mightier the forces against evil everywhere. Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.
  • Emelia Cohen-Alexanderje citiralaпре 2 године
    Ask of Me. That is the condition—God desires a praying people, willing and obedient. Under this universal and simple promise, men and women of old laid themselves out before God. They prayed, and God answered their prayers. Thus, the cause of God was kept alive in the world by the flame of their praying.
    The second Psalm contains the divine description of the establishment of
  • Emelia Cohen-Alexanderje citiralaпре 2 године
    God’s cause through Jesus Christ. All inferior dispensations have merged in the enthronement of Jesus Christ. In the following passage, God declares the enthronement of His Son:
    Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.(Ps. 2:6–7)
    All the nations are incensed with bitter hatred against His cause, but God is described as laughing at their enfeebled hate:
    Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?…He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.(Ps. 2:1, 4)
    Prayer puts God in full force in the world. To a prayerful man, God is present in realized force. The man who has prayed many acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation. To a
  • Emelia Cohen-Alexanderje citiralaпре 2 године
    prayerful church, God is present in glorious power. The prayers of God’s saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil. Woe to the generation of sons who find their own censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and who have inexpressible perils and untold consequences for their heritage! They whose fathers and mothers have left them a wealthy legacy of prayer are very fortunate, indeed.
    Prayer is God’s settled and singular condition to move ahead His Son’s kingdom. Therefore, the believer who is the most highly skilled in prayer will do the most for God. Men are to pray—to pray for the advance of God’s cause. The one who can wield the power of prayer is the strong one, the holy one, in Christ’s kingdom. He is one of God’s heroes, God’s saints, God’s servants, God’s agents. “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you” (Matt. 7:7). The strongest one in Christ’s
  • Emelia Cohen-Alexanderje citiralaпре 2 године
    The prayers of holy men appease God’s wrath, drive away temptations, resist and overcome the Devil, procure the ministry and service of angels, rescind the decrees of God. Prayer cures sickness and obtains pardon; it arrests the sun in its course and stays the wheels of the chariot of the moon; it rules over all gods and opens and shuts the storehouses of rain; it unlocks the cabinet of the womb and quenches the violence of fire; it stops the mouths of lions and reconciles our suffering and weak faculties with the violence of torment and violence of persecution; it pleases God and supplies all our need.
    —Jeremy Taylor
    Prayer has an incredible power to arrest and change the purposes of God.
  • Emelia Cohen-Alexanderje citiralaпре 2 године
    More praying, and better praying, is the key to the whole matter. The more time we spend in prayer, and the more preparations we make to meet God, the more we will commune with God through Christ. But our manner of praying, and the things about which we pray, are not entirely pleasing to God. Baptist philosopher John Foster has said, “More and better praying will bring the surest and readiest triumph to God’s cause; feeble, formal, listless praying brings decay and death.”
  • Emelia Cohen-Alexanderje citiralaпре 2 године
    The Gospel, in its success and power, depends on our ability to pray. The
  • Emelia Cohen-Alexanderje citiralaпре 2 године
    through His people. If there had been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God’s people, the earth would have been possessed for Christ long before this. The delay is not to be accounted for by the inveterate obstacles, but by the lack of
  • Emelia Cohen-Alexanderje citiralaпре 2 године
    The prayers of holy men are ever streaming up to God, as fragrant as the richest incense. And God, in many ways, is speaking to us, declaring His wealth and our impoverishment: “I am the Maker of all things; the wealth and glory are Mine
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