God has given much honour to His ministers, but not the privilege of pouring out the Spirit. As long as you look to a minister, God cannot pour, for you would say it came from man. One would think we would be humbled in the dust by this time. And yet still the heavens are like brass, and the earth like iron. Just because your eye is on man, and not on God.
Prayer is more powerful than preaching.
It is prayer that gives preaching all its power. I observe that some Christians are very ready to censure ministers and to complain of their preaching, of their coldness, their unfaithfulness. Why, the very hands of Moses would have fallen down, had they not been held up by his faithful people. I will pour waters upon him that is thirsty. There are often souls that have been a long time under the awakening hand of God.