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The Possibilities of Prayer:
Unique Elements E. M. Bounds, a famous American clergyman and author, wrote "The Possibilities of Prayer" in 1923.
Perhaps no other contemporary Christian theologian had a more thorough knowledge of prayer than E. M. Bounds. He was a Methodist Episcopal Church South clergyman and author of eleven works, nine of which were about prayer. At the age of nineteen, Bounds was a practising lawyer, and after three years, he began preaching for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His classic writings on personal communication with God look at how prayer must come from the complete person and how it deepens one’s Christian faith. He was known to say, “Continue to pray, and pray some more! It is adored by God and despised by the Devil.”
Bounds advocates that, "Prayer should be the sound of our hearing, the growth of our growing, the breath of our breathing, the thought of our thinking, the soul of our feeling, and the life of our living." We communicate our ideas and desires to our heavenly father through prayer. Good deeds, communion, church activities, and other such activities do not and should not take the place of prayer.
Bounds discusses The Ministry of Prayer, Prayer and the Promises, Its Possibilities, Answered Prayer, Divine Providence, and much more in "The Possibilities of Prayer."
Perhaps no other contemporary Christian theologian had a more thorough knowledge of prayer than E. M. Bounds. He was a Methodist Episcopal Church South clergyman and author of eleven works, nine of which were about prayer. At the age of nineteen, Bounds was a practising lawyer, and after three years, he began preaching for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His classic writings on personal communication with God look at how prayer must come from the complete person and how it deepens one’s Christian faith. He was known to say, “Continue to pray, and pray some more! It is adored by God and despised by the Devil.”
Bounds advocates that, "Prayer should be the sound of our hearing, the growth of our growing, the breath of our breathing, the thought of our thinking, the soul of our feeling, and the life of our living." We communicate our ideas and desires to our heavenly father through prayer. Good deeds, communion, church activities, and other such activities do not and should not take the place of prayer.
Bounds discusses The Ministry of Prayer, Prayer and the Promises, Its Possibilities, Answered Prayer, Divine Providence, and much more in "The Possibilities of Prayer."
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Published April 27, 2022
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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