You Can't Stop Me

1.   Satan's Job Is To Try To Wear Us Out And To Stop The Work 

1 Thess 2:18 We wanted to come to you but Satan hindered us

Dan 7:25 (amp) And he shall speak words against the Most High [God] and shall wear out the saints of the Most High with persecution

Neh 4 (paraphrased) When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly incensed. He ridiculed them 2 What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble burned as they are?” 3 “What they are building even a fox climbing up on it would break down their wall of stones!” 4 Hear us, our God, for we are despised. Turn their insults back on their own heads. 6 So we rebuilt the wall fill all of it reached half its height, for the people worked with all their heart. 7 But when they heard that the repairs to the walls had gone ahead and that the gaps were being closed, they were very angry. 9 But we prayed to our God 10 Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.” 14 After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “Don't be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.” 15 When our enemies heard that we were aware of their plot and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to our own work

•    Satan sends opposition to distract us from fellowship with the Lord

•    He wants to draw our attention from the Lord and put it on Him

2.  In Prayer We Receive Strength To Conquer And To Win Every Battle

 Jn 15:5-8 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned

•  We were never created to live independent of Him Isa 45:5 I am the Lord, I will strengthen you

•     Strength - A force, an army, wealth, power, valor, strength

Ps 27:3-6 Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then will I be confident. 4 One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. 5 For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high upon a rock. 6 Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me; at his tabernacle will I sacrifice with shouts of joy

•    David's attitude went from distress to strength and to shouts of joy Ps 84:7 They go from strength to strength (grow stronger as they go)

2 Sam 22:30,33,40 by you I can run through a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall 33 God is my strength and power, 40 You have armed me with strength for the battle (caused my enemies to bow down)

Ex 15:13 The LORD is a warrior, the LORD is His name....

•    If the Lord is a warrior then his strength makes you a warrior Ps 18:2 It is God who arms me with strength

Is 40:30-31 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, 31 But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.