E.M. Bounds Speaks to the Modern Church

We have recently published a book that was written by an E.M. Bounds scholar, Darrel King. It is entitled E.M. Bounds Speaks to the Modern Church. I heartily recommend this book to you.

Bounds was known quite accurately as a prophet of prayer. He wrote, "Activity may spring from spiritual strength. It does spring from spiritual weakness. The mistake of working more than we pray is the mistake of being too busy to eat, a killing process.The spiritual motivation of service comes out of intimacy with holy God. As people will be obedient to Jesus and go into their prayer closet and there God reveals himself to them in secret and His plans and direction for their life, they will be about His good bidding and about His good work with the blessing and anointing power of holy God. But activity coming out of the prayer closet will be of God; otherwise it can be totally amiss."

Bounds stresses the importance of intimacy with God in all his books, including our Pure Gold Classic, The Classic Collection on Prayer by E. M. Bounds. I am currently reading this book in order to learn more about prayer. I'm fairly certain that this book is one of the most comprehensive works on prayer that has ever been written.

We need to learn to spend more time in our prayer closets where we can develop initmacy with God, our Father. As we draw near to God, He will draw near to us. In the prayer closet, we will learn to hear His voice and experience His presence.  The Bible says, "He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, 'My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. . . . For you have made the Lord, my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place" (Psalm 91:1-9, NASB).

Have you made the Lord your refuge? Is He your dwelling place? How intimate are you with Him? As Bounds points out, these are important needs of the modern church.