I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints. Eric Ludy More Quotes by Eric Ludy More Quotes From Eric Ludy Everything that originates from God will endure the test of time. Therefore, it is good to check out the origins of everything to make sure they were started by God. Eric Ludy endure checks tests We've been so concerned about being cool, relevant, and fun that we have forgotten to be bread, light, and life to a hungry, dark, and dying world. Eric Ludy light dark fun The holy, all-loving, all-powerful, all-mighty, perfectly peaceful and joyful Life of God is waiting to be ours. It is a priceless gift that comes with only one condition: His Life can only be had in exchange for our own. Eric Ludy peaceful powerful waiting 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 battle soul kings Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart. Eric Ludy hero made heart Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out from behind that pulpit! Eric Ludy pulpit sex needs I had a God who knew my every desire. He also knew how I would fall. And yet he was waiting on the other side of my failure and my shattered dreams with some dreams of his own. Eric Ludy waiting dream fall You're looking for counselors, there are 66 in the Bible. Eric Ludy counselor 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 men past years The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy's entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander. Eric Ludy voice play hands Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom. Eric Ludy gatekeepers purity kingdoms Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems. Eric Ludy jobs men past Fact is fact. Truth is Truth. It does not matter how you feel. We do not listen to our feelings. We believe the truth of God's word. Eric Ludy doe feelings believe The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure. Eric Ludy maps valuable treasure We are here on this earth to know God intimately, fully, correctly, and contagiously; to house His holy person in our very bodies, allowing Him to showcase to the world around us His loving nature, His attitude, His thoughts, His emotions, and His actions through the way we live every moment of our lives. Eric Ludy loving-nature house attitude 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 selfish names heart Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn’t deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you. Eric Ludy selfishness special thinking 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 tired spiritual running Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong. Eric Ludy humility When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven. Eric Ludy names heaven jesus
