Our prayer life should be characterized with the warmth, with the excitement, with the intensity and with the energy that accompanies passion, or fervency.

In Luke 18, our Lord Jesus taught that laxity in prayer must be guarded against, and persistence should be fostered and encouraged. Jesus was telling us that our praying should be all-consuming, centered immovably upon the object of our desire and the God who is able to meet it and our needs.

James, in 5:16, capsulizes it for us when he wrote the oft-quoted statement, “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

In Prayer and Fervency Prayer and FervencyPrayer and Fervency , the author explains how and why fervency goes hand-in-glove with prayer. He tells us the secrets to finding fervency, how to attain it, and nourish it in your praying.

Prayer and FervencyPrayer and Fervency, a chapter-excerpt from the E.M. Bounds' Necessity of Prayer Necessity of PrayerNecessity of Prayer , is presented here with annotations to all Biblical quotations, which were not part of the original manuscript. Bounds, a lawyer, Methodist clergyman and pastor, Confederate army chaplain, editor, author, evangelist—a man of God, is considered a leading 19th / 20th century authority on prayer. He wrote volumes on the subject, surviving to see only two of his books in print before he died in 1913. His writings and teachings are respected worldwide.

See for yourself how prayer and fervency in your praying pleases God and how God rewards those who respect, nurture, and practice the two. Download a copy of this short-read book. You can read it in under 30 minutes; then, refer back to study the principles and apply them in your life.