Power Through Prayer Paperback – Unabridged, December 9, 2011

Beautifully written. This book leads you to not only inspect your own prayer life but motivates to enhance your prayer life. A direct call for the pastor to pray better, harder, longer because there is power through prayer.

Day. It is a very educational book. Easy to understand. I recommend the book highly. Prayer is the key to our lives when we pray to our heavenly Father in heaven. Being a Christian and knowing Jesus Christ as our Savior is the most important thing in anyone's !ife.

E.M. Bounds is an absolutely incredible writer, a bastion of the Christian faith, the theologian of prayer. His words continue to challenge, amaze, and inspire the people of God as they seek to walk closely with the Lord and experience Him through the power of prayer. Power Through Prayer is one of EM Bounds many classic works on prayer. He is practical yet spiritual, challenging us to seek God in passionate and unrelenting prayer. As with all the works of EM Bounds, I heartily recommend this book for its value in the Christian life. It is so amazing to be able to enjoy such incredible classics on the Kindle without having to acquire a stack of books, let alone keep track of them or haul them around with you just in case you might wish to read one. But I digress- ANY work by EM Bounds is a five-star, worthwhile read. Add this one to your collection today!

I really loved the inspirational stories and how easy it was to read! The lay out was great, large text and wide margins. It has very short chapters and nearly all of them felt very relevant and applicable.

I have never read a book like this book about prayer with such an overwhelming weight, compelling exposition and reasoning in regard to why not only preachers, but christians should pray. What I mean by pray is one that is "...strongly into the heart and life as Christ's "strong crying and tears" did; must draw out the soul into an agony of desire as Paul's did; must be an inwrought fire and force like the "effectual, fervent prayer" of James; must be of that quality which, when put into the golden censer and incensed before God, works mighty spiritual throes and revolutions."(Ch.4)I can not say I agree with everything Bounds said, but I can not help but be stricken with so many strong statements he made or quoted from the giants of Christianity in the past, among which are as follows (I have to restrain myself from revealing too much of the book):- Preaching which kills is prayerless preaching. Without prayer the preacher creates death, and not life. The preacher who is feeble in prayer is feeble in life-giving forces. Professional praying there is and will be, but professional praying helps the preaching to its deadly work. Professional praying chills and kills both preaching and praying. Much of the lax devotion and lazy, irreverent attitudes in congregational praying are attributable to professional praying in the pulpit.(Ch.3)- Prayer--secret fervent believing prayer--lies at the root of all personal godliness. A competent knowledge of the language where a missionary lives, a mild and winning temper, a heart given up to God in closet religion--these, these are the attainments which, more than all knowledge, or all other gifts, will fit us to become the instruments of God in the great work of human redemption. (Ch.4, quoted from Carey's brotherhood)- Preachers who are great thinkers, great students must be the greatest of prayers, or else they will be the greatest of backsliders, heartless professionals, rationalistic, less than the least of preachers in God's estimate. (Ch.4)- The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. (Ch.4)- Prayer is humbling work. [1] It abases intellect and pride, [2]crucifies vainglory, and [3]signs our spiritual bankruptcy, and all these are hard for flesh and blood to bear. It is easier not to pray than to bear them. ...perhaps little praying is worse than no praying. Little praying is a kind of make-believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.(Ch.5)- No ministry can succeed without much praying, and this praying must be fundamental, ever-abiding, ever-increasing. (Ch.6)- A desire for God which cannot break the chains of sleep is a weak thing and will do but little good for God after it has indulged itself fully. The desire for God that keeps so far behind the devil and the world at the beginning of the day will never catch up. (Ch.9)- "The leading defect in Christian ministers is want of a devotional habit." Richard Cecil (Ch.10)- "I urge upon you communion with Christ a growing communion" -- Sam Rutherford (Ch.11)- "All the minister's efforts will be vanity or worse than vanity if he have not unction." -- Richard Cecil (Ch.16)- Apostolic praying was as taxing, toilsome, and imperative as apostolic preaching. They prayed mightily day and night to bring their people to the highest regions of faith and holiness. They prayed mightier still to hold them to this high spiritual altitude. The preacher who has never learned in the school of Christ the high and divine art of intercession for his people will never learn the art of preaching (Ch.17)- "If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith." -- Martin Luther (Ch.20)This is an unquestionably must read for Christians who long for sweet and growing communion with Christ and need some fuel and fire to do so.

After reading this book, you will be convicted of the need for more prayer. More hours, more intensity, more struggle, more wrestling. Prayer is more important than air to the soul.

A short, but very inspiring little book. Even though this book was written for pastors and preachers, I believe, one can change the preaching terminology and apply it into our daily work.Our daily work is a celebration and a glorifying of Him, Who's craftsmanship and design of who we are, is reflected of this. Applying this book's wisdom can only enhance this, and I believe we will be amazed at Who our God is!

In all my life, I have never seen any person talk about prayer on as many levels as mr. Bounds has done. I tell you this book is phenomenal. It challenges ones faith in God! It demonstrates so well how minute we are without prayer. Not just a formality of prayer but to have that deeper spiritual connection with God. I love it because It's helped me tremendously and I see a difference in my life.

This is a book that inspires you to pray, that fills your heart with the legacy of prayer and supplication. It is a powerful read. I greatly enjoyed it so that I read it all in one seating.

A book that every Christian should read, especially church leaders.In the last chapter he said these words,Where are the Christly leaders who can teach the modern saints how to pray and put them at it? Do we know we are raising up a prayerless set of saints? Where are the apostolic leaders who can put God’s people to praying? Let them come to the front and do the work, and it will be the greatest work which can be done. An increase of educational facilities and a great increase of money force will be the direst curse to religion if they are not sanctified by more and better praying than we are doing.

Timeless writings for ministers and laymans.Pray unceasingly for the ministry for the church, you small and great people of God.

This book is a powerful instrument to really lead the christian to devote himself earnestly and meaningfully to prayer. Bounds did a great job writting this amazing work. If you need to pray more, read it, and you will be on your knees even before finishing it.

This book will set any Christian ablaze who has a inner yearning for God and to do great things for his name and kingdom. If you feel this yet have not been able to realise it, this book will stir you up along with the gifts God has placed inside.We must pray early, late and long !