“Nothing distinguishes the children of God so clearly and strongly as prayer. It is the one infallible mark and test of being a Christian. Christian people are prayerful, the worldlyminded, prayerless. Christians call on God; worldlings ignore God, and call not on His Name. It is the expression of a relation to God, a yearning for Divine communion. It is the outward and upward flow of the inward life toward its original
fountain. It is an assertion of the soul's paternity, a claiming of the sonship, which links man to the Eternal.

It has everything to do with bringing the soul into
complete communion with God. It has everything to do with enriching, broadening and maturing the soul's experience of God. That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray. By no possible pretext can he claim any right to the term, nor its implied significance. If he do not pray, he
is a sinner, pure and simple, for prayer is the only way in which the soul of man can enter into fellowship and communion with the Source of all Christlike spirit and energy.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Subjects covered
- Prayer and faith
- Prayer and trust
- Prayer and desire
- Prayer and fervency
- Prayer and importunity
- Prayer, character and conduct
- Prayer and obedience
- Prayer and vigilance
- Prayer and the word of God
- Prayer and the house of God

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ISBN: 9781845502089
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: CHRISTIAN FOCUS - published 15/11/2006
Format: Paperback