God’s Channel of Power

From the writings of E.M.Bounds, we read the following:
“We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the Gospel.”

“This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God’s plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God’s 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’ John 1:6....The glory and efficiency of the gospel are staked on the men who proclaim it.”

“What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or novel methods, but men whom the Holy Spirit can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit does not flow methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.”

Editorial note: Rev. Bounds wrote in the 1800s and early 1900s, so he addressed his comments to men. There were few women clergy at the time. If he wrote today, he would have included women in his comments.

If you want to be used of God, you need to become a person of prayer. This is so much more than just presenting a list of needs. While needs are included, prayer is so much more than that. Prayer is spending time with God and His Word. If you want to be used in kingdom work, you will need to access the Divine channel of power and it’s prayer.