Wrestling Prayer Quotes

“If you don't pray often, you won't gain a love for praying. Prayer is work, and therefore it is not very appealing to our natural sensibilities. But the simple rule for prayer is this: Begin praying and your taste for prayer will increase. The more you pray, the more you will acquire the desire for prayer, the energy for prayer, and the sense of purpose in prayer.”
― Leslie Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“God cannot honor anything, no matter its degree of sincerity, if it is contrary to His Word.”
― Leslie Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“But if there was ever a time for us to go to extremes for our God, it is now. The truth of the gospel is being diluted, dumbed down, and trampled upon by the very ones entrusted to keep it sacred and whole. It may seem 'unnecessary' to get on your knees for multiple hours each and every day, but, may I remind you that unless someone rises up and says, 'Lord, I'm willing to travail,' there are lives, promises, and spiritual realities that will not be born into our day and age. Effectual, fervent prayer is how God changes this world and bestows upon it the beauty, grace and power that He purchased at the cross.”
― Leslie Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“We mustn't claim to stand for our King but then deny Him by living a fleshly existence. Our King's Mighties don't shy away from the blazing searchlight of God's Word, but rather, willingly expose their souls and cry, 'Dear King, if there be anything that stands between You and me, if there be anything that shrouds Your glory, if there be anything that will weaken my sword in battle, purge it, slay it, utterly destroy it!”
― Eric Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to preserve our own interests at the expense of God's interests. It's devious, it's deceitful, it's self-indulgent. It's interested only in selfish comfort and will happily crucify Christ afresh to secure it. God also has another name for it- sin.”
― Eric Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“The inner throne of man is both what the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of Lucifer are after. And when this throne is yielded to the Almighty God, a man enters upon the sacred path of greatness right then and there...The destiny of a human soul depends entirely on who sits upon the throne of that soul...when the flesh is removed from its position of power, the human soul is made ready to usher in the glory of its true and rightful King”
― Eric Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David, and Paul seems to have lost His muscle in our modern age. Did He grow tired of performing heroics? Did He wax feeble after all these years of running this whole universal show? Could it be true that God has really lost His muscle? Maybe it would be more accurate to say God lost His men.”
― Eric Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“I don't believe there is such a thing as unanswered prayer. There is misguided prayers, selfish prayers, and doubting prayers, but true prayer doesn't go unanswered - it is merely abandoned prematurely due to lack of persistence and faithful endurance.”
― Leslie Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“No matter how outlandishly audacious your prayers might sound in your own ears, they are nothing in light of God's willingness and ability to answer.”
― Leslie Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on His great throne and His train still fills the temple. He still walks on the wings of the wind, He still rides on the backs of the mighty cherubim, and He still is the Triumphant Champion from Calvary. All hell still bends to His will, and sin and death have lost their hold on all who rest in the shadow of His presence. And the God who calmed storms, raised up dead men to life, and multiplied fishes and loaves to feed thousands is the same God we have today.”
― Eric Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“Prayer is not supposed to be all we do - it's just supposed to undergird all we do. Prayer is not supposed to be just the first thing we do, but the first, second, fourth, seventh, and final thing we do in each circumstance.”
― Leslie Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“There is absolutely no excuse to stay where you are at right now. If you are weak, He can make you strong. If you are timid He can make you brave. If you are a pervert, He can make you pure. If you are selfish, He can make you selfless. if you are a shepherd, He can make you a king. If you are mediocre, He can make you a Mighty One of valor.”
― Eric Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“Whenever your focus is on doing what you want and making yourself feel good, you can be confident that the Spirit of God is not the one leading the way.”
― Leslie Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“Specific praying is the key to building faith”
― Leslie Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“It is not that we don't have confidence in our God to save us from hell; we just don't have confidence in Him to do everything else he has promised to do while we are still on Earth.”
― Leslie Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“Prayer puts God in the position He deserves - that of King, Governor, Benign Controller, Possessor, Lord, and Master.”
― Leslie Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“Prayer is not first and foremost talking to God, it's first and foremost listening to God.”
― Leslie Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“The promises of prayer are extraordinary, but for prayer to work as God promises it to work, it must be purged of self and doubt.”
― Leslie Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“Make me little in mind, soft in heart, trusting in soul.”
― Eric Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“Too many of the men today are mice, not men. Too many of the women of our age are vain, not valiant. We are paranoid of the battle, not productive in it. We are soft where we should be solid, and hard where we should be soft.”
― Eric Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God