The devil doesn't fear us by ourselves, he
fears God.
Those who pray that he fears are those
who are able to go to the Lord
and bring down the power of God.
That's who is feared.
Who's going to be feared in New England?
It are those Christians who can lay hold
upon the Lord and they can cry out
and God answers them.
You see, when God comes, that's what shakes
the foundations of the kingdom of darkness.
You need God to come.
That's always been it.
Wherever revival has come, wherever conversions come, wherever
churches spring up, what is it?
It's not some guy that suddenly got some
initiative and got some idea.
It's God comes.
God comes.
We've got to have God come.
But these prayers are not ineffectual because we
see in Scripture that our prayers can call
God down.
He is pleased to do that.
He is pleased in his sovereignty to delegate
to us Christians prayer by which we may
lay hold on his arm.
Say God help us, God our feet are
right here, crush his head under them.
God help us, empower us.
The weapons of our warfare get energized by
him, mighty through God.
God powerful is what we need them to
be.
We need God to empower us.
We need God to empower us when we're
in the pulpit.
We need God to empower us when we
go out on the streets.
You need God to empower you when you
go into your workplace or you go into
your school.
Brethren, if we don't have God, we are
dead in the water.
And if he's told us there are things
I am pleased to give you, but you
do not have because you do not pray,
put your hyper-Calvinism away.
And I'll tell you this, your reformed faith
is not going to win the day.
Sometimes we get that idea, well, we hold
to the perseverance of the saints.
We drop that Arminianism, we're this, we're that,
and therefore we think we're guaranteed of success.
Brethren, that is not true.
There are lots of cold, dead, hyper-Calvinists
that will no more win New England than
the Hindus that I hear have a new
place of worship close by here.
Brethren, dead in the water.
Calvinism doesn't call God down.
Brethren, I'll tell you, humble dependence on Him
does.
Humble dependence on Him does.