Purpose in Prayer

E. M. Bounds wrote this from a life of actual practice — the man prayed three hours every morning — and that lived authority gives the book a weight that most devotionals never achieve. The twelve-chapter format is compact and accessible, and more than a century of sustained readership is its own form of quality signal. Dense nineteenth-century prose and some repetition are real costs, but for a Christian reader who wants to be challenged on the seriousness of their prayer life, this is the real thing.