Power Through Prayer: Preaching With Power and Unction

Pastor Stuart Olyott said of this book:

I use this book not just to reread it, but I find that if I read a couple of sentences, I suddenly feel that I want to pray. So, I use that as a trigger to pray. Then, after reading a few more sentences, I want to pray again; it moves me to pray…I would like to counsel you to read Power Through Prayer…I think you’ll realize that there’s far more to preaching than just the act of preaching. Preaching is something done by God through a man.

This version of "Power Through Prayer" is a revision of the 1912 version.

Here is an excerpt from chapter 4, "The Transformative Power of Prayer":

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying will make light preaching. Prayer makes preaching strong, gives it unction, and makes it stick. In every ministry weighty for good, prayer has always been a serious business.

The preacher must be pre-eminently a man of prayer. His heart must graduate in the school of prayer. In the school of prayer only can the heart learn to preach. No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men. More than this, prayerless words in the pulpit and out of it are deadening words.