In any study of the principles and procedure of prayer, of its activities and enterprises, first place must, of necessity, be given to faith. It is the initial quality in the heart of any man who essays to talk to the Unseen. He must, out of sheer helplessness, stretch forth hands of faith. He must believe where he cannot prove. In the ultimate issue, prayer is simply faith, claiming its natural … natural yet marvellous prerogatives – faith taking possession of its illimitable inheritance. True godliness is just as true, steady, and persevering in the realm of faith as it is in the province of prayer. Moreover: when faith ceases to pray, it ceases to live. Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.
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Prayer is a necessity for the Christian, yet if you could take a look into the lives of most modern Christians, I believe you would find that they don’t really consider prayer a necessity. Even back when this book was written, this held true, so how much more true is it so many decades later? In this book, Bounds explains in many ways and with …