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
<p>"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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