Power Through Prayer - E.M. Bounds (Audiobook)

On April 2, 2024, Stuart Olyott from Liverpool, England, shared insights on the topic of "How to Not Preach a Boring Sermon" with some of the men at Grace Community Church in San Antonio, Texas. It was during this study that he highly commended this book. These references thus led me to commence a project of reading the 1912 version, revising it, and turning it into an audiobook.

Let me share part of what Stuart shared that night:

I use this book not just to reread it, but I find that if I read a couple of sentences, I suddenly feel that I want to pray. So, I use that as a trigger to pray. Then, after reading a few more sentences, I want to pray again; it moves me to pray...I would like to counsel you to read Power Through Prayer...I think you'll realize that there's far more to preaching than just the act of preaching. Preaching is something done by God through a man.

(0:00) Intro and Forewords
(3:49) 1 - The Preacher's Character and Its Influence on the Sermon
(17:32) 2 - Total Death to Self and Surrender to God
(25:27) 3 - The Preaching That Kills
(34:19) 4 - The Transformative Power of Prayer in Preaching and Ministry
(42:41) 5 - Igniting the Sermon Through Prayer
(50:22) 6 - How Prayer Shapes Holiness in Ministry
(57:07) 7 - The Power of Prolonged Prayer
(1:04:50) 8 - The First Hours: Starting Your Day With God
(1:10:52) 9 - Rise Early, Get Out of Bed, and Seek the Lord!
(1:15:35) 10 - Advancing Holiness in an Age of Challenge
(1:24:18) 11 - A Life Devoted to Prayer: The Calling of David Brainerd
(1:33:31) 12 - The Great Need of Heart Preparation
(1:41:27) 13 - "Give Me Thy Heart"
(1:47:02) 14 - From Wesley's Era to Today: The Significance of Preaching With Unction
(1:52:38) 15 - Do You Have Unction or Just Earnestness?
(2:01:32) 16 - We Must Have This Unction When Preaching
(2:09:35) 17 - Apostolic Praying for Your People
(2:19:35) 18 - Do You Pray for Your Pastors?
(2:28:49) 19 - Dedicated Prayer and Waiting on God
(2:39:57) 20 - A Generation of Saints Who Neglect True Prayer