by Dale Shumaker
Spirit Savvy Network
Finding your mission, Empowering your life through prayer,
Becoming a Missionary in the Marketplace
Leading others to be Missionaries in the Marketplace
Power through Prayer by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in Power through Prayer.
Power Through Prayer, chapter 13, the heart not the head changes lives:
The
heart is the Saviour of the world. Heads do not save. Genius, brains,
brilliancy, strength, natural gifts do not save. The gospel flows
through hearts. All the mightiest forces are heart forces. Great hearts
make great characters; great hearts make divine characters. God is
love. Hearts make heaven; heaven is love.
It is the heart and not the head which makes God’s great people of God.
The heart counts much every way in religion. The heart must speak from
the pulpit. The heart must hear in the pew. In fact, we serve God with
our hearts. Head homage does not pass current in heaven.
A theological school to enlarge and cultivate the heart is the golden desideratum of the gospel.
It
is easier to fill the head than it is to prepare the heart. It is
easier to make a brain sermon than a heart sermon. It was heart that
drew the Son of God from heaven. It is heart that will draw men to
heaven. Men of heart is what the world needs to sympathize with its woe,
to kiss away its sorrows, to compassionate its misery, and to alleviate
its pain. Christ was eminently the man of sorrows, because he was
preeminently the man of heart.
“Give me thy heart,” is God’s requisition of men. “Give me thy heart!” is man’s demand of man.
A
professional ministry is a heartless ministry. When salary plays a
great part in the ministry, the heart plays little part. We may make
preaching our business, and not put our hearts in the business.
The
closet is the heart’s study. We will learn more about how to speak and
what to say it there than we can learn in our libraries. “Jesus wept” is
the shortest and biggest verse in the Bible. It is he who goes forth weeping (not speaking great speeches), bearing precious seed, who shall come again rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
The complete chapter on the heart not the head changes lives:
The
Christian Classics Ethereal Library and many great classic works on
Christian Growth, by the best of the Saints of Old whose works have been
passed down through the ages.
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