Men of Prayer

E.M. Bounds begins his book Power Through Prayer with the following words:

"We are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organisations to advance the church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. The trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organisation. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than anything else. Men are God's great method. The church is looking for better methods, God is looking for better men. 'There was a man sent from God whose name was John' . . . What the church needs today is not more machinery, or better, not new organisations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Spirit can use, men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit does not flow through methods, but through men, He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer."