After I was saved I had a dear pastor friend that invited me to his home to show me through his personal library. I had no clue about the lives of the men and women whose stories that I would learn about and whose words I would read. It was a time that I remember well. It was my time in the desert- it was my time in the field. It was a time that God had set aside for taking in His word and to pray. One of the books I read was, Power Through Prayer by E.M. Bounds. That book spoke to my heart and sparked a fire deep inside of me. I was thumbing through this treasure and came upon this section that I had marked. I pray that it will bless you.
"What of unction? It is the indefinable in preaching which makes it preaching. It is that which distinguishes and separates preaching from all mere human addresses. It is the divine in preaching. It makes the preaching sharp to those who need sharpness. It distills as the dew to those who need to be refreshed...This unction comes to the preacher not in the study but in the closet. It is heaven's distillation in answer to prayer. It is the sweetest exhalation of the Holy Spirit. It impregnates, suffuses, softens, percolates, cuts, and soothes. It carries the Word like dynamite, like salt, like sugar; makes the Word a soother, an arraigner, a revealer, a searcher; makes the hearer a culprit or a saint; makes him weep like a child and live like a giant; opens his heart and his purse as gently, yet as strongly as the spring opens the leaves." E.M. Bounds
"What of unction? It is the indefinable in preaching which makes it preaching. It is that which distinguishes and separates preaching from all mere human addresses. It is the divine in preaching. It makes the preaching sharp to those who need sharpness. It distills as the dew to those who need to be refreshed...This unction comes to the preacher not in the study but in the closet. It is heaven's distillation in answer to prayer. It is the sweetest exhalation of the Holy Spirit. It impregnates, suffuses, softens, percolates, cuts, and soothes. It carries the Word like dynamite, like salt, like sugar; makes the Word a soother, an arraigner, a revealer, a searcher; makes the hearer a culprit or a saint; makes him weep like a child and live like a giant; opens his heart and his purse as gently, yet as strongly as the spring opens the leaves." E.M. Bounds
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