The Necessity of Prayer is a religious treatise focused on the subject of prayer. In author's opinion God's Word is the basis of prayer. God's Word brings hearing, and hearing brings faith. Ultimately, the author points out the fact that love for and obedience to God's Word is the starting point for an active, healthy and meaningful prayer life.

Edward McKendree Bounds (1835 – 1913) was an American author, attorney, and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South clergy. He is known for writing 11 books, nine of which focused on the subject of prayer. In his writings, Bounds adopted soteriological views which follow with some details, the Arminian orthodoxy