The Weapon of Prayer
Intercessory Prayer, Spiritual Warfare, and the Vital Power of Revival in Christian MinistryBy Edward M. Bounds
Length4h 16m
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In The Weapon of Prayer, Edward M. Bounds presents prayer as the essential instrument of Christian discipleship, pastoral effectiveness, and spiritual resistance. Moving through biblical examples, theological reflection, and urgent exhortation, he argues that prayer is not a supplementary religious exercise but the means by which believers receive divine strength and the church fulfills its vocation. Bounds's prose is fervent, aphoristic, and homiletic: its repetitions and commanding cadences are designed less to analyze prayer than to awaken the conscience and cultivate practice. The book belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tradition of evangelical devotional literature, combining Methodist piety, revivalist spirituality, and a strongly practical theology of ministry. Edward McKendree Bounds (1835–1913) was an American Methodist Episcopal minister, Civil War chaplain, and prolific writer on prayer. His experiences in pastoral work, itinerant preaching, and the disciplined life of a clergyman shaped his conviction that institutional activity and eloquent preaching remain spiritually barren without sustained communion with God. Bounds wrote amid an era of expanding churches and religious organization, insisting that genuine power could arise only from inward devotion. This book is especially suited to ministers, students of devotional literature, and readers seeking a demanding account of prayer's place in Christian life. Its uncompromising tone may challenge modern sensibilities, yet its central summons—to recover prayer as labor, dependence, and spiritual vocation—remains intellectually significant and practically compelling.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length4 hrs 16 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 14, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Around the Wicket Gate (Annotated)
2I. Prayer Essential to God
3II. Putting God to Work
4III. The Necessity for Praying Men
5IV. God's Need of Men Who Pray
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6V. Prayerless Christians
7VI. Praying Men at a Premium
8VII. The Ministry and Prayer
9VIII. Prayerlessness in the Pulpit
10IX. Prayer-Equipment for Preachers
11X. The Preacher's Cry—Pray for Us!
12XI. Modern Examples of Prayer
13XII. Modern Examples of Prayer (Continued)
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