E. M. BOUNDS – författare

This package includes the entire collection of the Moody Classics Set: The Confessions of St. Augustine, Hudson Taylor''s Spiritual Secret, The Incomparable Christ, Orthodoxy, Answers to Prayer, The Christian''s Secret of a Happy Life, Power Through Prayer, The Imitation of Christ, The True Vine, The Pilgrim''s Progress, How to Pray, All of Grace, Born Crucified, Holiness (Abridged), The Overcoming Life, The Secret of Guidance, Names of God, and Prevailing Prayer.Of all the factors influencing our spiritual growth and development, pivotal books play a key role. Learning from those who have walked the path and fought the fight brings wisdom and strengthens resolve. And hearing the familiar chords of kingdom living sung by voices from other times can penetrate cultural barriers that limit our allegiance to the King. To this end, Moody Publishers is honored to present all eighteen books of its spiritual classics series. Selected for their enduring influence and timeless perspective, these new editions promise to shape the lives of spiritual pilgrims for generations to come.

Jesus said, "If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do."

"That," says E.M. Bounds, "is the Divine declaration, and it opens a vista of infinite resources and possibility."

Throughout his ministry, Bounds rose to pray at 4 a.m. and prayed until 7 a.m. Out of this deep prayer experience, he could say, "Without prayer, the Christian life, robbed of its sweetness and beauty, becomes cold and formal, and dead; but in the secret place where God talks with his own, the Christian life grows into such a testimony of Divine power that all men will feel its influence and be touched by the warmth of its love…That, surely is the purpose of all real prayer and the end of all true service."

Three things make a divine--prayer, meditation, temptation. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry as he did me, to teach you to pray. Remember Luther''s maxim, "To have prayed well is to have studied well." Get your text from God, your thoughts, your words.

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?

Pastor and civil war chaplain E. M. Bounds penned his slim classic on prayer for the simple reason that Christians don''t pray enough. "The little estimate we put on prayer is evident from the little time we give to it," he wrote. "Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still."Bounds'' simple, concise volume can help all Christians rediscover the source of spiritual power in their life.