Moody – Power Through Prayer

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"It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men and women great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God....These can mold a generation for God."

"The church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men and women."

The words of E.M. Bounds read as though they were written today: “So we come to one of the crying evils of these times, maybe of all times—little or no praying.” Bounds chastises: “Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.” He instructs: “The man—God’s man—is made in the closet.” And he inspires: “A prayerful minister has passed beyond the regions of the popular…into a sublime and mightier region, the region of the spiritual.” Written for both leaders and laymen, Power Through Prayer will change the way you pray.

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Pastor and civil war chaplain E. M. Bounds penned his slim classic on prayer for the simple reason that Christians don't pray enough. "The little estimate we put on prayer is evident from the little time we give to it," he wrote. "Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still."

Bounds' simple, concise volume can help all Christians rediscover the source of spiritual power in their life.

EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS (1835-1913) was born in Missouri. He studied deeply in the Scriptures and was greatly inspired by the writings of John Wesley. At the age of 24, he felt called to be a preacher and became a Methodist Pastor around the time of the American Civil War. At the age of 58, and for the next nineteen years (until he went home to be with the Lord at age 77), he began to write books. It is said that he prayed daily, from 4 A.M. to 7 A.M., before he would begin work on his writings. Bounds is author of many books, including Purpose in Prayer, The Weapon of Prayer, and The Reality of Prayer.