Power through Prayer - E.M. Bounds - Education Videos

Power through Prayer - E.M. Bounds

""Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter; but capacity for faith, the ability to pray, the power for thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory, and an ever-present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God--men who can set the Church ablaze for God; not in a noisy, showy way, but with an intense and quiet heat that melts and moves everything for God."



Note the factors that are prerequisites in a man that E.M. Bounds say's "can set the Church ablaze for God" through prayer.



Some relevant verses to meditate on:



John 15:7 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you."



John 9:31 "We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him."



Psalm 34:15 "The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous And His ears are open to their cry."



Psalm 66:18 "If I regard wickedness in my heart, The Lord will not hear;"



Yes, remember to pray always...but remember that dying to self and living an abiding life in Christ is what gives prayer its power.



Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."



Can you stand with the apostle Paul in proclaiming, without hesitance, that you too "no longer live, but it is Christ who lives in you?" I ask this not from a seat of judgment, or as one who "has already attained (Phil 3:12)," but rather that I may encourage my brethren to examine them