"Stories of Old"

"We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work Thou didst in their days, in the times of old." (Psalms 44:1) "Where is the LORD God of Elijah?" (2 Kings 2:14) If you know the story, then you know how the mantle was passed; but for today, in this crazy messed up world, don't you think we need someone like Elijah to wake some people up? It's good to read about how God drove out the inhabitants, and how Elijah took on the 450 prophets of Baal, but we need some good old fashion works of God done around here, cause this place is getting crazy. Give someone that has no heart a car, and you have armed them with a weapon; I literally saw a mom in a minivan threaten to run down some homeless guy, just because he was still in the crosswalk when her light turned green; by the look on her face, if she could have gotten away with it, she would have done it. Never mind that you really don't know when some nut is going to use their car to plow through a crowd of people; who needs a gun, when you have a 6,000 pound sledgehammer. I think it was a book on prayer, it has been about 15 years, but in that book the author told a story of how they had gone to some pagan island, and a new Christian that was with them challenged them with rain, saying something like, "Let's see who's God is real; if it rains during your ceremony, then it is the God that we are speaking of"; or something to that effect. The main point was that of prayer, and how it did not look like it was going to rain, and if so, their lives might have been in jeopardy; however they earnestly prayed, saying, "Where is the God of Elijah?" and after a while of prayer, they began to hear raindrops on the tin roof. The pagans were out marching in their pagan ceremony, and soon they were slipping in mud, and dropping their pagan god on the ground. Not only was God glorified in the midst of all of that, but the power of prayer was realized in the hearts of those believers. The most useful weapon that we have as a Christian is prayer; prayer is not just something that we use for talking to God, but prayer is use for tearing down walls, and for moving mountains, and for pulling someone you love from the fires of hell... "Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled." (2 Corinthians 10:3-6)