Purpose in Prayer

We all know, that prayer is important, and we all have used prayer for different reasons, even the unbelievers have used prayer in some point of their lives. So, since prayer is so important I would like to share with you, the teachings about prayer of E. M. Bounds. We will learn the importance of prayer, the power of the prayer. It is my prayer that you will be motivated to enter into the realm of prayer, and be prepared that something wonderful will happen! This an invitation, it is also a challenge to enter to the powerful dimension of prayer.

The prayer of God’s saints is the capital stock in heaven by which Christ carries on His great work upon the earth. The earth is changed, revolutionized; angels move on more powerful, more rapid wing; and God’s policy is shaped when the prayers of His people are more numerous and more efficient.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Indeed, we must pray so that our prayers take hold of God. The man who has done the most and the best praying is the most immortal, because prayers do not die. Perhaps the lips that uttered them are closed in death, or the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God’s heart is set on them. Prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them – outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.

The mightiest successes that come to God’s cause are created and carried on by prayer in God’s day of power. When God’s church comes into its mightiest inheritance of the mightiest faith and mightiest prayer, the angelic days of powerful activity occur. God’s conquering days are when the saints have given themselves to mightiest prayer.

The life of each Christian is the highest life, and its office is to pray. Its prayer life is the highest life, the most fragrant, the most conspicuous. When God’s house on the earth is a house of prayer, then God’s house in heaven is busy and powerful in his plans and all people (Isa. 56:7), says our God. Then, His earthly armies are clothed with the triumphs and spoils of victory, and His enemies are defeated on every hand.

God shapes the world by prayer. The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be and the mightier the forces against evil everywhere. Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.

the very life and prosperity of God’s cause – even its very existence- depend on prayer. And the advance and triumph of His cause depends on one thing: ‘that we ask of Him’. The Lord has issued His decree, immutable and eternal, in which we find the great condition of prayer: “I will declare the decree…ask of me, and I shall give thee the heaven for thine inheritance, and the uttermost part of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. (Ps. 2: 7-9)

Prayer puts God in full force in the world. To a prayerful man, God is present in realized force. The man who has prayed many acceptable prayers has done the trust and greatest service to the incoming generation. To a prayerful church, God is present in glorious power. The prayers of God’s saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolation waves of sin and evil.

Prayer is God’s settle and singular condition to move ahead His Son’s kingdom. Therefore, the believers who is the most highly SKILLED IN PRAYER will do the most for God. Men are to pray – to pray for the advance of God’s cause. The one who can wield the power of prayer is the strong one, the holy one, in Christ’s kingdom. He is one of God’s heroes, God’s saints, God’s servants, God’s agents. “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you” (Matt. 7.7). the strongest one in Chronist in Christ’s kingdom is the ability to pray.