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Power Through Prayer: Preaching With Power and Unction
Pastor Stuart Olyott said of this
I use this book not just to reread it, but I find that if I read a couple of sentences, I suddenly feel that I want to pray. So, I use that as a trigger to pray. Then, after reading a few more sentences, I want to pray again; it moves me to pray…I would like to counsel you to read Power Through Prayer…I think you’ll realize that there’s far more to preaching than just the act of preaching. Preaching is something done by God through a man.
This version of "Power Through Prayer" is a revision of the 1912 version.
Here is an excerpt from chapter 4, "The Transformative Power of Prayer":
The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying will make light preaching. Prayer makes preaching strong, gives it unction, and makes it stick. In every ministry weighty for good, prayer has always been a serious business.
The preacher must be pre-eminently a man of prayer. His heart must graduate in the school of prayer. In the school of prayer only can the heart learn to preach. No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men. More than this, prayerless words in the pulpit and out of it are deadening words.
I use this book not just to reread it, but I find that if I read a couple of sentences, I suddenly feel that I want to pray. So, I use that as a trigger to pray. Then, after reading a few more sentences, I want to pray again; it moves me to pray…I would like to counsel you to read Power Through Prayer…I think you’ll realize that there’s far more to preaching than just the act of preaching. Preaching is something done by God through a man.
This version of "Power Through Prayer" is a revision of the 1912 version.
Here is an excerpt from chapter 4, "The Transformative Power of Prayer":
The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying will make light preaching. Prayer makes preaching strong, gives it unction, and makes it stick. In every ministry weighty for good, prayer has always been a serious business.
The preacher must be pre-eminently a man of prayer. His heart must graduate in the school of prayer. In the school of prayer only can the heart learn to preach. No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men. More than this, prayerless words in the pulpit and out of it are deadening words.
88 pages, Paperback
Published April 22, 2024
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About the author
E.M. Bounds
328 books225 followersEdward McKendree Bounds was a Methodist minister, revivalist, author and lawyer.
Unsuccessful in the California gold rush of 1849, E.M. Bounds returned home to Missouri and became the state’s youngest practicing attorney at age 19. In his early twenties he was deeply impacted by the Third Great Awakening, and at age 24 he was ordained for ministry. During his lifetime he pastored churches, traveled as an evangelist, served as a Civil War chaplain, edited a Christian periodical and was a devoted husband and father. But E.M. Bounds is best known for prayer. His daily habit was to spend the time between 4 am and 7 am praying. His writings on prayer are widely acclaimed to be among the finest of any author before or since.
Unsuccessful in the California gold rush of 1849, E.M. Bounds returned home to Missouri and became the state’s youngest practicing attorney at age 19. In his early twenties he was deeply impacted by the Third Great Awakening, and at age 24 he was ordained for ministry. During his lifetime he pastored churches, traveled as an evangelist, served as a Civil War chaplain, edited a Christian periodical and was a devoted husband and father. But E.M. Bounds is best known for prayer. His daily habit was to spend the time between 4 am and 7 am praying. His writings on prayer are widely acclaimed to be among the finest of any author before or since.
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March 23, 2025
Timely read, pondering the “Profound Ideas”
It’s a read once, read and pray, then to pray then read again. Then do and not be just a hearer, but the call to be a doer to see the fruits of that what Our Father has for those who will pray. Praying prayers that He will gladly answer !
It’s a read once, read and pray, then to pray then read again. Then do and not be just a hearer, but the call to be a doer to see the fruits of that what Our Father has for those who will pray. Praying prayers that He will gladly answer !
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