While many factors have been highligted to explain Spurgeon's (1834-1892) most powerful ministry, the foremost secret empowering Spurgeon was his devotion to prayer. When people would walk into the huge Metropolitan Tabernacle, the preacher would take them to the basement prayer room where people were always on their knees, interceding for the church. Spurgeon would then declare: "Here is the powerhouse of this church". This concise statement is confirmed by the amazing number of sermons Spurgeon preached on prayer.

Spurgeon believed in passionate, Holy Spirit-directed prayer. His word pictures of the majestic throne of Grace before which God calls privileged believers is well worth the price of this book. You will be inspired and challenged in your prayer life, especially if you experience struggles in consistent, powerful prayer. 192 pages

Few people have ever been more blessed with answered prayer than old "Praying Hyde". John Hyde's prayer life ranks in a league with the prayer lives of Andrew Murray, George Mueller, Frank Bartleman and other great prayer warriors of Church History. If you wish to learn to pray effectively, powerfully, you cannot have a better example than to pattern your prayer life after John "Praying" Hyde.

"We take our stand near the prayer closet of John Hyde, and are permitted to hear the sighing, the groaning and to see tears coursing down his face, to see his frame weakended by foodless days and sleepless nights, shaken with sobs as he pleads, 'O God, give me souls or I die'!"

Rev. Edward M. Bounds (1835-1913) served God faithfully through the Civil War, witnessing great atrocities during the war. For the last nineteen years of his life, E.M. Bounds gave himself to intercessory prayer. He was deeply burdened because of the backslidden condition of his Church, the lukewarmness of ministers, the moral decay of his nation and for the lost condition of his fellow-countrymen. He spent a minimum of three to four hours each morning in fervent prayer, prostrate before the throne of heaven. He truly communed with his God in close fellowship and deep conviction.

Quotable Quotes which reveal the true heart of Rev. Bounds: 1) "Man is looking for better methods. God is looking for better men. Men are God’s methods." 2) "Revivals are among the charter rights of the Church...a revival means a heartbroken pastor. A revival means a church on its knees confessing its sins - the sins of the individual and of the Church - confessing the sins of the times and of the community."