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“Many instances occur in God’s Word showing God intervenes in this world in answer to prayer. Nothing is clearer when the Bible is consulted than when Almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the praying of His people. Jonah flees from duty and takes a ship for a distant port. But God follows him, and by a strange providence this disobedient prophet is cast out of the vessel, and the God who sent him to Nineveh prepares a fish to swallow him. In the fish’s belly he cries out to the God against whom he had sinned, and God intervenes and causes the fish to vomit Jonah out on dry land. Even the fishes of the great deep are subject to the Law of Prayer.”
― E. M. Bounds, Bounds on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare: Five Books in One

“Prayer makes the man; prayer makes the preacher; prayer makes the pastor.”
― E. M. Bounds, Power through prayer

“God has of his own motion placed himself under the Law of Prayer and has obligated himself to answer the prayers of men. He has ordained prayer as a means whereby he will do things through men as they pray, which he would not otherwise do. If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world’s affairs, and prevents him from working. The driving power, the conquering force in God’s cause is God himself. Call on me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which though knowest not, (Jer. 33:3 MEV) is God’s challenge to prayer. Prayer puts God in full force into God’s work.”
― E. M. Bounds, Bounds on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare: Five Books in One