Do your prayers reflect the true desires of your heart? If not, why not?

In Prayer and Desire Prayer and DesirePrayer and Desire , E.M. Bounds shows how spiritual desires develop, how you can nurture them, and how you should express them in prayer. In those times when we don’t “feel” like praying, Bounds encourages that we take the time to ask God for the desire to praythe desire to pray. Thoughts and words engendered from our heart can then begin to form and to flow.

Prayer should be an expression of our soul’s most sincere desires, coming from a sense of needs that require fulfilling, correcting, or attainment.

Prayer and DesirePrayer and Desire, a chapter-excerpt from the E.M. Bounds' Necessity of Prayer Necessity of PrayerNecessity of Prayer , is presented here with annotations to all Biblical quotations, which were not part of the original manuscript. Bounds, a lawyer, Methodist clergyman and pastor, Confederate army chaplain, editor, author, evangelist—a man of God, is considered a leading 19th / 20th century authority on prayer. He wrote volumes on the subject, surviving to see only two of his books in print before he died in 1913. His writings and teachings are respected worldwide.

Bounds shows, through Scripture examples, that ardent desire is the true basis of unceasing prayer, something we all struggle with. He argues that our supplications must be genuine heartfelt yearnings. And, those requests must be earnest, emanating from a sense of need for something not possessed, but which God has promised and can provide.

Every Christian can learn from Bounds writings, understand more clearly the roles prayer and desire play in Christian living and spiritual growth. This kind of teaching helps us understand and apply God's greatest gifts to us, the ability to approach Him and communicate with Him about our true desires.

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