IV. Power Through Prayer
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E. M. BOUNDS FOREWORD
"Recreation to a minister must be as whetting is with the mower--that is, to be used only so far as is necessary for his work. May a physician in plague-time take any more relaxation or recreation than is necessary for his life, when so many are expecting his help in a case of life and death? Will you stand by and see sinners gasping under the pangs of death, and say: "God doth not require me to make myself a drudge to save them?" Is this the voice of ministerial or Christian compassion or rather of sensual laziness and diabolical cruelty."
Richard Baxter
"Misemployment of time is injurious to the mind. In illness I have looked back with self-reproach on days spent in my study; I was wading through history and poetry and monthly journals, but I was in my study! Another man's trifling is notorious to all observers, but what am I doing? Nothing, perhaps, that has reference to the spiritual good of my congregation. Be much in retirement and prayer. Study the honor and glory of your Master."
Richard Cecil
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 - Men of Prayer Needed
Chapter 2 - Our Sufficiency is of God
Chapter 3 - The Letter Killeth
Chapter 4 - Tendencies to be Avoided
Chapter 5 - Prayer, the Great Essential
Chapter 6 - A Prayer Ministry Successful
Chapter 7 - Much Time Should be Given to Prayer
Chapter 8 - Examples of Praying Men
Chapter 9 - Begin the Day with Prayer
Chapter 10 - Prayer and Devotion United
Chapter 11 - An Example of Devotion
Chapter 12 - Heart Preparation Necessary
Chapter 13 - Grace form the Heart Rather than the Head
Chapter 14 - Unction is a Necessity
Chapter 15 - Unction, the Mark of True Gospel Preaching
Chapter 16 - Much Prayer the Price of Unction
Chapter 17 - Prayer Marks Spiritual Leadership
Chapter 18 - Preachers Need the Prayers of the People
Chapter 19 - Deliberation Necessary to Largest Results from Prayer
Chapter 20 - A Praying Pulpit Begets a Praying Pew
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