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The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men - men of prayer.

~Edward Mckendree Bounds

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The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.

~Edward Mckendree Bounds

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Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.

~Edward Mckendree Bounds

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We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

~Edward Mckendree Bounds

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The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.

~Edward Mckendree Bounds

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When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.

~Edward Mckendree Bounds

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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.

~Edward Mckendree Bounds

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Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer.

~Edward Mckendree Bounds

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Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.

~Edward Mckendree Bounds

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The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.

~Edward Mckendree Bounds

Topics: Being Believer Bloom Christian Graces His Individual Life Personal Prayer Salvation

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 15th, 1835

Died: August 24th, 1913

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