Wrestling Prayer by Eric and Leslie Ludy
Eric and Leslie Ludy’s book Wrestling Prayer is actually rekindling a flame of fire in my heart to pray fervently. Eric brings the Old Testament warriors to life and demonstrates how we should be fighting a spiritual warfare for our King as they fought a physical warfare for their King.
“Note: A critical thing for each of us to know and understand is that the ancient tales of valor, sacrifice, redemption, and victory in the Old Testament that played out upon the physical earth with physical wars and physical swords and shields now plays out upon the spiritual inner terrain of the human heart, with spiritual wars and spiritual swords and shields. In the Old Testament it was a physical kingdom, in the New Testament it is an invitation into an inner kingdom, a human temple.”
This book will convict you and light a fire in your heart and a desire to be one of God’s “Mighties”. It reaches down into the very depths of your being and asks:
“When you woke up this morning, did you think of your day as belonging to you, or Him? Did you live as if your time and decisions were your own, or His? Did you allow the distractions and allurements of the world to turn your head, to occupy your thoughts, or to dictate your choices? Or was he your sole pursuit? How did you spend your free time? Doing what you felt like doing? Or pouring out your life for Him?”
If you’re tired of defeat and ready for a victorious prayer life, this book will inspire you , motivate you and give you new hope.
Wonderful post, Mom! I was greatly convited by this book too! It's the best book I've read in a long time.
Well, I must totally agree with the Word of God!I see, by the Holy Spirits guidance , that we make choices that bring blessings or spankings! I see that man is so foolish to think that he can do what he wants and still expect God's protection! I believe God warns us if we "stray" from His side and His fold, that the wolves and the lion is out there to hurt us, and only when we, as Nebuchenezzer did, look up to Him and cry out for His forgiveness will we see His hand of blessings , protection, and fellowship again. We are so quick to say "we live under grace" and use it as a license to sin! Dangerous games we play with THE GOD of the universe! So foolish and then we expect to still be allowed before a HOLY GOD!I would and am afraid of God for a healthy reason! I want His hand of protection, His fellowship( open line of communication), not for His hand of wrath because I was so foolish to walk away for a season. And being that His ways and His wisdom and is something we will not understand until He takes us home , I would not suggest any of us "think" we know it all, and take a chance of not entering His Kingdom , because we were so foolish to stray for a while , thinking we would find the way back so easily; or to think that we would be FOR SURE we could still enter the GATE , and then find out we could not because we played with the enemy too long and our hearts hardened to the point we would not or could not return to the Truth. Wow! we are so seriously foolish and even cruel toward THE ONE who gave HIS LIFE for us, THE ONE with all wisdom, the one who holds life and death. So , I say the the ifs/thens, are to be taken seriously and not played with . God is not mocked. And we need to understand He loved us enough to die for us , provide a way , redeem us ( unconditional love), but "HELLO", He gives us wisdom , knowledge , understanding, discernment, all just for the asking, so if we are so rebellious to not OBEY , then there is "conditional love too", I mean the Father does chastise us , Right? isnt that conditional? Under certain conditions we are chastised and there is broken fellowship , until we repent. I am only the Shepherd's daughter, but I pray to see His way more and more each day. I want to follow Him in His safe territory. If I see it wrong , God will correct me, but He knows I am asking to understand this. And I see you are too. Let us pray for each other and our loved ones.