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E-book Title: The Reality of Prayer
Author: E. M. Bounds
Book Description: THE REALITY OF PRAYER
FOREWARD
During the last 25 years of the nineteenth century and a score of years of the twentieth, there lived and died three great men of God whom I knew-men whom God has undoubtedly numbered among the foremost of His heavenly host. The 1st was Edward McKendree Bounds, author of this present volume and the another "Spiritual Life" Books. The second was Claud L. Chilton, minister for galore years in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and a musical musician
of religious music of appreciable note. The third, Clement C. Cary, preacher man and editor, lost his life in an automobile accident in 1922. The fourth was Dr. B. F. Haynes, minister, editor and author, who died in Nashville, in 1923.
What Dr. Thomas Goodwin, the Puritan, was to Strong, Smith
and Sparstow; what John Wesley was to Whitefield, Dramatist and Clark, Bounds was to Chilton, Cary and Haynes. What David Brainerd's Journal did for Cary, Martyn, McCheyne, Bounds' books can do for thousands of God's children. He was a man who lived ever on prayer ground. He walked and talked with the Lord. Prayer was the great weapon in his arsenal, his pathway to the Throne of Grace. None who see what he has written can fail of realising that Edward McKendree Bounds talked with God, as a man talketh to his friend.
Homer W. Hodge
Flushing, N.Y.
I. PRAYER.A PRIVILEGE, PRINCELY, SACRED
I am the creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit move from God and returning to God; simply hovering over the great gulf; till a few moments therefore I am no much seen; I drop into an carved in stone eternity! I want to cognize one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. give me that book! At any cost give me the Book of God! Lord, is it not Thy word. "If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God? Thousand givest liberally, and upbraidest not. Thousand hast said, if any be willing to do Thy wish he shall know. I am willing to do; let me cognize Thy will".
John Wesley
The word "Prayer" expresses the largest and most comprehensive approach unto God. It gives prominence to the element of devotion. It is communion and intercourse with God. It is enjoyment of God. It is access to God. "Supplication" is a much restricted and much intense form of prayer, attended
by a sense of personal need, limited to the seeking in an pressing manner of a supply for pressing need.
"Supplication" is the really soul of prayer in the way of pleading for several one thing, greatly needed, and the need intensely felt.
"Intercession" is an enlargement in prayer, a going out in wideness and fullness from self toothers. Primarily, it makes not centre in praying for others, but refers to the freeness, boldness and childlike confidence of the praying. It is the fullness of trustful influence in the soul's approach to God, unlimited and resolute in its access and its demands. This influence and confident trust is to be used for others.
Prayer always, and everyplace is an immediate and trustful approach to, and a request of, God the Father. In the prayer universal and perfect, as the pattern of all praying, it is "Our Father, Who art in Heaven." At the grave of Lazarus, Christ upraised up His eyes and said, "Father." In His sacerdotal prayer, Christ upraised up His eyes to Heaven, and said, "Father." Personal, familiar and paternal was all His praying. Strong, tool and touching and tearful, was His praying. See these words of Paul: "Who in the days of his flesh, once
he had offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, unto him that was able to save him from death, and was detected
in that he feared" (Hebrews 5:7).More... | 
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