Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer QUOTES

1 " (People) either overestimate Satan's influence and power, living with an inflated, erroneous perspective of his abilities. Or they underestimate him. They don't assign him any credit at all for the difficulties he's stirring up beneath the surface of our lives... Satan is not God. And he is not God's counterpart or peer... Satan is nothing but a copycat trying desperately to convince you he's more powerful than he actually is... So even though he's given temporary clearance to strategize and antagonize, we don't need to pray from a position of fear or weakness against him... But we can't expect to experience this power unless we're serious about joining the battle in prayer. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

2 " If all we're doing is flinging words and emotions in all directions without any real consideration for the specific ways the enemy is targeting us and the promises of God that apply to us, we're mostly just wasting our time. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

3 " As we practice implementing this incredible power tool He's placed in our hands, He divinely positions us - even a little life like ours - in His grand purpose for the ages. Through the connective tissue of prayer, He cracks open the door that makes us at least a small part of how these massive plans of His are translated into the lives of people we know. Including ours. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

4 " (The enemy) laughs at your attempts to fix your own issues with timely words and hard work - tactics that might affect matters for a moment but can't begin to touch his underhanded, cunning efforts down where the root issues lie. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

5 " You may not understand what all's happening in your life right now, but any possible explanation pales in comparison to what you do know because of your faith in God's goodness and assurance. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

6 " We pray because our own solutions don’t work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy. We pray because we’re serious about taking back the ground he has sought to take from us. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

7 " Prayer is the portal that brings the power of heaven down to earth. It is kryptonite to the enemy and to all his ploys against you. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

8 " If I were your enemy, I’d magnify your fears, making them appear insurmountable, intimidating you with enough worries until avoiding them becomes your driving motivation. I would use anxiety to cripple you, to paralyze you, leaving you indecisive, clinging to safety and sameness, always on the defensive because of what might happen. When you hear the word faith, all I’d want you to hear is “unnecessary risk. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

9 " At the end of the day, the enemy is going to be sorry he ever messed with you. You’re about to become his worst nightmare a million times over. He thought he could wear you down, sure that after a while you’d give up without much of a fight. Well, just wait till he encounters the fight of God’s Spirit in you. Because . . . This. Means. War. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

10 " God’s real desire, in addition to displaying His glory, is to claim your heart and the hearts of those you love. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

11 " If I were your enemy, I’d disguise myself and manipulate your perspectives so that you’d focus on the wrong culprit—your husband, your friend, your hurt, your finances, anything or anyone except me. Because when you zero in on the most convenient, obvious places to strike back against your problems, you get the impression you’re fighting for something. Even though all you’re really doing is just . . . fighting. For nothing. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

12 " Because this is war. The fight of your life. A very real enemy has been strategizing and scheming against you, assaulting you, coming after your emotions, your mind, your man, your child, your future. In fact, he’s doing it right this second. Right where you’re sitting. Right where you are. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

13 " Nothing—nothing!—is too far gone that your God cannot resurrect it. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

14 " A prayer that’s seeking passion should not be about manufacturing a better feeling or jostling up a better mood. It’s simply about holding out your open hands—in thanksgiving first, in gratitude for God’s faithfulness and His goodness and His assured, accomplished victory over the enemy. Then asking. Asking for what He already wants to give you. Then waiting (expecting) to receive the promise of newness and freshness from His Spirit as you go along, more each day—praying until, as the prophet Hosea said . . . He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth. (Hos. 6:3) "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

15 " I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth. (3 John 4) "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

16 " But I say his reign of terror stops here. Stops now. He might keep coming, but he won’t have victory anymore. Because it all starts failing when we start praying. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

17 " Marriage stands for the creation of unity among two people who were once separated in every way before love reached out and found the other—the way God reached out and found us, and covenanted with us, and loved us, and despite who we are, despite what we’re like, still loves us. This image, more than almost anything, is exactly what the enemy wants to denigrate. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

18 " God’s plan for you is to move you into a position of impact by infusing you with truth and employing you in prayer. You don’t need to be a genius to do it. You don’t need to learn ten-dollar words and be able to spout them with theological ease. You just need to bring your honest, transparent, available—and, let’s just say it—your fed-up, over-it, stepped-on-your-last-nerve self, and be ready to become fervently relentless. All in His name. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

19 " Peace is the deep, inner, eternal stability the believer possesses by virtue of relationship with Jesus, a sense of balance that’s not subject to external circumstance. It’s also the quality that enables us to live harmoniously with others. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

20 " Passion is the fuel in the engine of your purpose. It’s your “want-to.” It’s what keeps you going when mundane tasks bore you or difficult ones dissuade you. Passion is what keeps you moving in the direction your best intentions want you to go. "

― Priscilla Shirer , Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer