Strength & Perseverance
The greatest strength is revealed in intelligent yielding. Here the prayer is expressing the utter willingness of a man that God’s will shall be done in him.
Following means climbing.
It is a fiercely contested conflict. Satan is a trained strategist, and an obstinate fighter. He refuses to acknowledge defeat until he must. It is the fight of his life.
He yields only when he must. Therefore the prayer must be persistent. He continually renews his attacks, therefore the ground taken must be held against him in the Victor’s name.
The enemy yields only what he must. He yields only what is taken. Therefore the ground must be taken step by step. Prayer must be definite.
At the root the one thing that works against God’s will is the evil one’s will. And on the other hand the one thing that effectively thwarts Satan’s plans is a man wholly given up to God’s will.
He must yield before His advance, and he must yield before this man who stands for Jesus down on the earth.
It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them.
Jesus is the victor. Satan knows it, and fears Him.
MannaScroll