Pastor and Prayer: Why and How Pastors Ought to Pray

Original title: Preacher and Prayer. New, updated and annotated edition."What the church needs today is not more and better machinery, not new organizations or more innovative methods, but men whom the Holy Spirit can use - men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not show up on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men - men of prayer." - E. M. BoundsList of Discussions:The Need for Preachers Who PrayDepending Solely on GodPreaching that KillsPastoral Tendencies to Be AvoidedThe Preacher's Main Business is PrayerWhat Prayer Can Do for Your MinistryMake Time for PrayerExamples of Praying MenEarly Morning PrayerDevoted PrayerAn Example of DevotionPreparation of the HeartWorking from the HeartThe Necessity of AnointingAnointed PreachingGenuine AnointingSpiritual Leaders PrayPrayer for the PreacherGiving Yourself to PrayerA Praying Pulpit Begets a Praying PewAbout the AuthorEdward McKendree Bounds was born in Shelby County, Missouri, on August 15, 1835, and died on August 24, 1913, in Washington, Georgia. He was admitted to the bar in 1854 at the age of 19, but left the profession five years later when he answered the call of God to the ministry. Beginning in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, he became the chaplain of the Fifth Missouri Regiment of the Confederacy.Bounds married Miss Emmie Barnett of Eufaula, Alabama, in 1876. By this union, he became the father of two daughters, Celeste and Corneille, and a son, Edward, who died at the age of six. His wife Emmie died in 1886, and later Bounds married Miss Hattie Barnett, Emmie’s cousin. Together they had six children: Samuel, Charles, Osborne, Elizabeth, Mary, and Emmie. However, Charles died at the age of one, so in the end, the family consisted of seven children.After serving several important churches in St. Louis and other places to the south, Bounds became editor of theSt. Louis Christian Advocatefor eight years and, later, associate editor ofThe Nashville Christian Advocatef