The Power Of Faith Prayer And Hard Work

Sister Gladys Pierre was only six months old when her mother left Haiti for America and gave her to her grandparents. Her father went to the Bahamas. Growing up, she didn’t know either of her parents. Instead, Pierre was raised by her grandparents in a country where most people live in poverty or are disadvantaged. In The Power of Faith, Prayer, and Hard Work, she shares her story. She tells how God guided her as a little girl who was lost, confused, alone, afraid, and had no trust in anything or anyone. She believed she didn’t deserve anything good, and that she was worthless because of lack of self-esteem. Pierre shares how although she was praying, nothing happened in her life until she started exercising faith. Then she started seeing major changes and realized faith was the special key. One must know how to use faith for your prayers to be answered. Faith, prayer, and hard work go together.

Explores seven steps that will put the true power of faith into action every day.

A classic of spiritual devotion edited for a new generation of readers. Opens the closed door to the "secret place" of effective prayer experienced by many historical saints.

Offers a cohesive New Testament theology of petitionary prayer.

Power Through Prayer is one of EM Bounds many classic works on prayer. He is practical yet spiritual, challenging us to seek God in passionate and unrelenting prayer. Christ did not come for the righteous but for the sinner and He calls us to pray like he did to the Father in a continual basis. Bounds in this work outlines what kind of heaven and earth shattering effects prayer can have from the individual person to the very ministry that someone may be trying to perform. There is no limit or bounds to what kind of power to faith prayer can have.

WE are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. "There was a man sent from God whose name was John." The dispensation that heralded and prepared the way for Christ was bound up in that man John. "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given." The world's salvation comes out of that cradled Son. When Paul appeals to the personal character of the men who rooted the gospel in the world, he solves the mystery of their success. The glory and efficiency of the gospel is staked on the men who proclaim it. When God declares that "the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him," he declares the necessity of men and his dependence on them as a channel through which to exert his power upon the world. This vital, urgent truth is one that this age of machinery is apt to forget. The forgetting of it is as baneful on the work of God as would be the striking of the sun from his sphere. Darkness, confusion, and death would ensue. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 - MEN OF PRAYER NEEDED Chapter 2 - OUR SUFFICIENCY IS OF GOD Chapter 3 - THE LETTER KILLETH Chapter 4 - TENDENCIES TO BE AVOIDED Chapter 5 - PRAYER, THE GREAT ESSENTIAL Chapter 6 - A PRAYING MINISTRY SUCCESSFUL Chapter 7 - MUCH TIME SHOULD BE GIVEN TO PRAYER Chapter 8 - EXAMPLES OF PRAYING MEN Chapter 9 - BEGIN THE DAY WITH PRAYER Chapter 10 -PRAYER AND DEVOTION UNITED Chapter 11 - AN EXMPLE OF DEVOTION Chapter 12 - HEART PREPARATION NECESSARY Chapter 13 - GRACE FROM THE HEART RATHER THAN THE HEAD Chapter 14 - UNCTION A NECESSITY Chapter 15 - UNCTION, THE MARK OF TRUE GOSPEL PREACHING Chapter 16 - MUCH PRAYER THE PRICE OF UNCTION Chapter 17 - PRAYER MARKS SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP Chapter 18 - PREACHERS NEED THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE Chapter 19 - DELIBERATION NECESSARY TO LARGEST RESULTS FROM PRAYER Chapter 20 - A PRAYING PULPIT BEGETS A PRAYING PEW

Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit (Galatians 5:25). The Holy Spirit empowers us, guides us, and enables us to grow and endure in our relationship with the Father through Jesus Christ. Often the most misunderstood member of the Trinity, the person of the Spirit continues to attract attention today amidst church revivals and renewals. In this new edition of his classic Keep in Step with the Spirit, J. I. Packer seeks to help Christians reaffirm the biblical call to holiness and the Spirit s role in keeping our covenant with God. Packer guides us through the riches and depth of the Spirit s work, assesses versions of holiness and the charismatic life, and shows how Christ must always be at the centre of true Spirit-led ministry. A new chapter explores Christian assurance. With abiding relevance and significance, Keep in Step with the Spirit sets forth vital knowledge for healthy and joyous Christian living, through understanding and experience of God the Holy Spirit. Here is a book for every serious believer to read and re-read.