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Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one's personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness.

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The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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