The Reality of Prayer
In a world where distractions abound and faith often feels distant, The Reality of Prayer invites young adults and families to rediscover the transformative power of prayer through the insightful teachings of Edward M. Bounds. This compelling guide delves into the heart of intercessory prayer, revealing how it cannot only deepen your relationship with God but also ignite a profound change in the world around you.
Who Should Read The Reality of Prayer?
Join the journey as you explore the true essence of prayer—its purpose, its power, and its potential to shape lives. With practical insights and relatable stories, this book equips readers with the tools to become effective intercessors, encouraging a vibrant prayer life that transcends mere routine.
Why The Reality of Prayer is Relevant Today
Whether you’re a seasoned prayer warrior or just beginning to explore the depths of communication with God, The Reality of Prayer offers a refreshing perspective that resonates with the struggles and triumphs of today’s youth and families. Embrace the challenge, unlock the mysteries of prayer, and watch as your faith takes flight. Are you ready to experience the reality of prayer?
The Reality of Prayer Excerpt: We have much fine writing and learned talk about the subjective benefits of prayer; how prayer secures its full measure of results, not by affecting God, but by affecting us, by becoming a training school for those who pray. We are taught by such teachers that the province of prayer is not to get, but to train. Prayer thus becomes a mere performance, a drill-sergeant, a school, in which patience, tranquility and dependence are taught. In this school, denial of prayer is the most valuable teacher. How well all this may look, and how reasonable soever it may seem, there is nothing of it in the Bible. The clear and oft-repeated language of the Bible is that prayer is to be answered by God; that God occupies the relation of a father to us, and that as Father He gives to us when we ask the things for which we ask. The best praying, therefore, is the praying that gets an answer.
The possibilities and necessity of prayer are graven in the eternal foundations of the Gospel. The relation that is established between the Father and the Son and the decreed covenant between the two, has prayer as the base of its existence, and the conditions of the advance and success of the Gospel. Prayer is the condition by which all foes are to be overcome and all the inheritance is to be possessed.
The Reality of Prayer Continued…
These are axiomatic truths, though they may be very homely ones. But these are the times when Bible axioms need to be stressed, pressed, iterated and reiterated. The very air is rife with influences, practices and theories which sap foundations, and the most veritable truths and the most self evident axioms go down by insidious and invisible attacks.
More than this: the tendency of these times is to an ostentatious parade of doing, which enfeebles the life and dissipates the spirit of praying. There may be kneeling, and there may be standing in prayerful attitude. There may be much bowing of the head, and yet there may be no serious, real praying. Prayer is real work. Praying is vital work. Prayer has in its keeping the very heart of worship. There may be the exhibit, the circumstance, 20and the pomp of praying, and yet no real praying. There may be much attitude, gesture, and verbiage, but no praying.
The Reality of Prayer
About the author
Edward M. Bounds
Edward McKendree Bounds did not merely pray well that he might write well about prayer. He prayed because the needs of the world were upon him. He prayed, for long years, upon subjects, which the easy-going Christian rarely gives a...
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