🔖 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. Bounds List of ChaptersCh. 1: The Need for Preachers Who PrayCh. 2: Depending Solely on GodCh. 3: Preaching that KillsCh. 4: Pastoral Tendencies to Be AvoidedCh. 5: The Preacher's Main Business is PrayerCh. 6: What Prayer Can Do for Your MinistryCh. 7: Make Time for PrayerCh. 8: Examples of Praying MenCh. 9: Early Morning PrayerCh. 10: Devoted PrayerCh. 11: An Example of DevotionCh. 12: Preparation of the HeartCh. 13: Working from the HeartCh. 14: The Necessity of AnointingCh. 15: Anointed PreachingCh. 16: Genuine AnointingCh. 17: Spiritual Leaders PrayCh. 18: Prayer for the PreacherCh. 19: Giving Yourself to PrayerCh. 20: A Praying Pulpit Begets a Praying Pew About 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 nineteen, 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 Mi...