E.M. Bounds - Necessity of Prayer - Chapter 5

Here are a few gems from Rev. E.M. Bound's fifth chapter of his book 'The Necessity of Prayer.' The first chapter is called 'Prayer & Fervency'. As always, I'm quoting the parts of the chapter that spoke the loudest to me.

Fervorless prayer has no heart in it; it is an empty thing, an unfit vessel. Heart, soul, and life, must find place in all real praying.

God wants warmhearted servants. The Holy Spirit comes as a fire, to dwell in us; we are to be baptized, with the Holy Spirit and with Fire. Fervency is warmth of soul. If our religion does not set us on fire, it is because we have frozen hearts. God dwells in a flame; the Holy Spirit descends in fire. To be absorbed in God's will, to be so greatly in earnest about doing it that our whole being takes fire, is the qualifying condition of the man who would engage in effectual prayer.

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