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 10, prayer united with lofty devotion:
By every means, modern sainthood must be inspired by the loftiest ideals and by the largest possibilities through the Spirit.
Paul
lived on his knees, that the Ephesian Church might measure the heights,
breadths, and depths of an unmeasurable saintliness, and “be filled
with all the fullness of God.”
The
divinest thing in religion is holy men and holy women. No amount of
money, genius, or culture can move things for God. Holiness energizing
the soul, the whole man aflame with love, with desire for more faith,
more prayer, more zeal, more consecration—this is the secret of power.
These we need and must have, and men must be the incarnation of this
God-inflamed devotedness.
Brainerd’s
spirit was on fire for God, on fire for souls. Nothing earthly,
worldly, selfish came in to abate in the least the intensity of this
all-impelling and all-consuming force and flame. Prayer is the creator
as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit
of prayer. Prayer and devotion are united as soul and body are united,
as life and the heart are united. There is no real prayer without
devotion, no devotion without prayer. The person must be surrendered
to God in the holiest devotion.
The
name and honor of Jesus Christ, the advance of his cause, must be all
in all. We must have no inspiration but the name of Jesus
Christ, no ambition but to have him glorified, no toil but for him. Then
prayer will be a source of our illuminations, the means of perpetual
advance, the gauge of our success. The perpetual aim, the only ambition, we can cherish is to have God with us.
This
age may be a better age than the past, but there is an infinite
distance between the betterment of an age by the force of an advancing
civilization and its betterment by the increase of holiness and
Christlikeness by the energy of prayer.
It
is prayer-force which makes saints. Holy characters are formed by the
power of real praying. The more of true saints, the more of praying; the
more of praying, the more of true saints.
The complete chapter on prayer united with lofty devotion :
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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