September 25, 2026
A Note from E. M. Bounds
A public-domain paper on prayer from E. M. Bounds, presented for focused reading and spiritual formation.
Prayer is not an escape hatch from the world. In the older Christian writers, it is usually the opposite: a way of standing still long enough for God to tell the truth about the world and about us.
If the line feels severe, stay with it. Severity in the saints is often just mercy without cosmetics.
Source boundary: this post reflects on The Holy Spirit Our Helper In Prayer, attributed in the corpus to E. M. Bounds. No outside sources used.