August 4, 2026
When Prayer Refuses to Flatter Us
A public-domain paper on prayer from E. M. Bounds, presented for focused reading and spiritual formation.
The old prayers have very little interest in making us impressive. They keep asking for mercy, light, purity, patience, and a heart that can survive contact with reality.
Let the prayer be smaller than your anxiety and older than your mood. That is often enough for today.
Source boundary: this post reflects on Are We Praying As Christ Did? Do We Abide In Him? Are Our Pleas And, attributed in the corpus to E. M. Bounds. No outside sources used.