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AnandaHya

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I just wanted to start a thread that would help us learn what it really means to pray and perhaps we could practice saying prayers for each other so that we could see what real heartfelt prayers looked like and learn and grow in the knowledge and presence of Christ.

What do you guys and gals think?

Will you pray and study with me?

I'm starting my study on prayer with the books of Edwards M. Bounds and they are available online for free and even have some you can listen too on your MP3 player. :)

I'll post a few of my favorite quotes and you can do the same ;) also if you have some favorite authors or preachers or sermons about prayer and would like to post it and share that would be wonderful :)

May God bless you!

Power Through Prayer

Author: Bounds, Edward M. (1835-1913)
Description: The caricature of lawyers as money grubbing, selfish narcissists is often derided in popular culture. But Jesus did not come for the righteous, but for the sinner. He has used men trained in the law, such as Calvin and Luther, throughout the history of his church to edify the people of God. Edward M. Bounds is one of these men. Trained as a lawyer, but called to ministry, Bounds served as an Army chaplain during the Civil War. As far as prayer is concerned, Bounds practiced what he preached. His personal prayer regimen called him to prayer for three hours every morning. Bounds did not consider his time in prayer as idle time, but a time that was effective in changing the world through the power and grace of God. Read Bounds' Power Through Prayer to enrich your understanding of God's work in the world.

Book Information | Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Edward McKendree Bounds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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AnandaHya said:
I just wanted to start a thread that would help us learn what it really means to pray and perhaps we could practice saying prayers for each other so that we could see what real heartfelt prayers looked like and learn and grow in the knowledge and presence of Christ.

What do you guys and gals think?

Will you pray and study with me?

I'm starting my study on prayer with the books of Edwards M. Bounds and they are available online for free and even have some you can listen too on your MP3 player. :)

I'll post a few of my favorite quotes and you can do the same ;) also if you have some favorite authors or preachers or sermons about prayer and would like to post it and share that would be wonderful :)

May God bless you!

Power Through Prayer

Author: Bounds, Edward M. (1835-1913)
Description: The caricature of lawyers as money grubbing, selfish narcissists is often derided in popular culture. But Jesus did not come for the righteous, but for the sinner. He has used men trained in the law, such as Calvin and Luther, throughout the history of his church to edify the people of God. Edward M. Bounds is one of these men. Trained as a lawyer, but called to ministry, Bounds served as an Army chaplain during the Civil War. As far as prayer is concerned, Bounds practiced what he preached. His personal prayer regimen called him to prayer for three hours every morning. Bounds did not consider his time in prayer as idle time, but a time that was effective in changing the world through the power and grace of God. Read Bounds' Power Through Prayer to enrich your understanding of God's work in the world.

Book Information | Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Edward McKendree Bounds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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i like how one preacher said about E.M bounds he said bounds wasnt just a e minor chords reads his works will make u a man of fire cuz everything he did was thru prayer..
Pray more preach less..
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do your words have the power of the Holy Spirit behind them? Do they give life or do they whisper death? Do you speak as oracles of God as God commands or do you make excuses?

1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
 
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Chapter 2 Our Sufficiency is of God

"Paul says: “Our sufficiency is of God, who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.” The true ministry is God-touched, God-enabled, and God-made. The Spirit of God is on the preacher in anointing power, the fruit of the Spirit is in his heart, the Spirit of God has vitalized the man and the word; his preaching gives life, gives life as the spring gives life; gives life as the resurrection gives life; gives ardent life as the summer gives ardent life; gives fruitful life as the autumn gives fruitful life. The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God’s Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river.
The preaching that kills is non-spiritual preaching. The ability of the preaching is not from God. Lower sources than God have given to it energy and stimulant. The Spirit is not evident in the preacher nor his preaching. Many kinds of forces may be projected and stimulated by preaching that kills, but they are not spiritual forces. They may resemble spiritual forces, but are only the shadow, the counterfeit; life they may seem to have, but the life is magnetized. The preaching that kills is the letter; shapely and orderly it may be, but it is the letter still, the dry, husky letter, the empty, bald shell. The letter may have the germ of life in it, but it has no breath of spring to evoke it; winter seeds they are, as hard as the winter’s soil, as icy as the winter’s air, no thawing nor germinating by them. This letter-preaching has the truth. But even divine truth has no life-giving energy alone; it must be energized by the Spirit, with all God’s forces at its back. Truth unquickened by God’s Spirit deadens as much as, or more than, error. It may be the truth without admixture; but without the Spirit its shade and touch are deadly, its truth error, its light darkness. The letter-preaching is unctionless, neither mellowed nor oiled by the Spirit. There may be tears, but tears cannot run God’s machinery; tears may be but summer’s breath on a snow-covered iceberg, nothing but surface slush. Feelings and earnestness there may be, but it is the emotion of the actor and the earnestness of the attorney. The preacher may feel from the kindling of his own sparks, be eloquent over his own exegesis, earnest in delivering the product of his own brain; the professor may usurp the place and imitate the fire of the apostle; brains and nerves may serve the place and feign the work of God’s Spirit, and by these forces the letter may glow and sparkle like an illumined text, but the glow and sparkle will be as barren of life as the field sown with pearls. The death-dealing element lies back of the words, back of the sermon, back of the occasion, back of the manner, back of the action. The great hindrance is in the preacher himself. He has not in himself the mighty life-creating forces"
 
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When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.
A.W TOZER

We’re here to be worshippers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshipper, and after that he can learn to be a worker. The work done by a worshipper will have eternity in it. Labor that does not spring out of worship is futile and can only be wood, hay, and stubble in the day that shall try every man’s works.
TOZER

The facts are that God is not silent, has never been silent. Its the nature of God to speak.
TOZER
 
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AnandaHya said:
Hey I watched and like this video you posted on another thread Sam. :) thanks :)

‪Are we hypocrites when we pray?!‬‏ - YouTube
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I LOVE KEITH DANEILS such a man of prayer haha
long tym bak he was abt to move to NY and he looks around the city he saw u know it was filled with filth,prostitues walking around,adult shops he was so broken and he knelt down and started wailing aying"GOD! I CANNOT BRING MY CHILDREN TO NEW YORK,GOD I CANNOT BRING MY CHILDREN TO NEWYORK,OR ELSE MY CHILDREN WILL BE DEFILED"the prayer went on and on time went by and he wiped his tears and looked around there were about 300 peopl around him utterly moved and in tears by his prayers,he ditn preach but a prayer thru a praying man many came to faith thru a prayer of a broken man
 
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:) yes we need less studying of the word and more doing of it :) on that note I'm going to clean my house ;) stay blessed Sam and I want to hear about your trip :)
 
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AnandaHya said:
:) yes we need less studying of the word and more doing of it :) on that note I'm going to clean my house ;) stay blessed Sam and I want to hear about your trip :)
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i love this prayer of a myrter
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, LORD Jesus."
Jim elliot
 
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