Title: Laying Hold of The Lord in Prayer
Meta: When revival and true conversion happens, it is not because of some person taking clever initiative and having a new idea, but it is because God came in power.  We need to be people who pray in faith and humble ourselves before God and lay a hold of Him.
Tags: prayer,revival,church planting,power

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The devil doesn't fear us by ourselves.

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He fears God.

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Those who pray that he fears are those who are able to go to the Lord

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and bring down the power of God.

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That is who is feared.

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Who is gonna be feared in New England?

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It is those Christians who can lay hold upon the Lord,

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and they can cry out, and God answers them.

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You see, when God comes,

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that is what shakes the foundations of the kingdom of darkness.

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You need God to come.

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That has always been it. (P)

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Wherever revival has come; wherever conversions come;

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wherever churches spring up; what is it?

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It is not some guy that suddenly got some initiative and got some idea,

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it's God comes. God comes. We've got to have God come.

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But these prayers are not ineffectual because we see in Scripture

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that our prayers can call God down.

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He is pleased to do that.

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He is pleased in His sovereignty to delegate to us Christians

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prayer by which we may lay hold on His arm, and say, "God, help us.

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God, our feet are right here. Crush his head under them.

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God, help us. Empower us."

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The weapons of our warfare get energized by Him.

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Mighty through God.

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God-powerful is what we need them to be. (P)

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We need God to empower us.

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We need God to empower us when we are in the pulpit.

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We need God to empower us when we go out on the streets.

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You need God to empower you when you go into your workplace;

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or you go into your school.

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Brethren, if we don't have God, we are dead in the water.

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And if He has told us there are things I am pleased to give you

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but you do not have because you do not pray,

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put your hyper-Calvinism away.

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And I'll tell you this, your reformed faith is not going to win the day. (P)

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Sometimes we get that idea, "Yeah, we hold to the perseverance of the saints.

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We dropped that Arminianism. We are this. We are that."

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And therefore we think we are guaranteed of success.

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Brethren, that is not true.

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There are lots of cold dead hyper-Calvinists that will no more win New England

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than the Hindus that are here have a new place of worship closeby here.

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Brethren, dead in the water.

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Calvinism doesn't call God down.

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But brethren, I'll tell you, humble dependence on Him does.