Mark Batterson Quotes - Page 2

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• You don’t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.

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  Opportunity, Needs, Ifs

  Mark Batterson (2012). “Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge”, p.13, Zondervan

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• You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.

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  Prayer, Ideas, Thousand

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• Have you ever noticed that when you pray, coincidences happen? And when you don't, they don't.

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  Coincidence, Praying, Happens

  Mark Batterson (2009). “Primal: A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity”, p.122, Multnomah

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• One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience.

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  Leadership, Christian, Someone You Love

  Twitter post from Feb 16, 2014

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• Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.

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  Spiritual, Destiny, Emotional

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.93, Multnomah

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• Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.

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  Prayer, Forever, Generations

  Mark Batterson (2012). “Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge”, p.66, Zondervan

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• Sometimes we're too focused on getting out of a situation that we don't think about what we can get out of the situation.

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  Thinking, Sometimes, Situation

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• If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.

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  Hungry, Full Of Yourself, Ifs

  Mark Batterson (2013). “Going All In: One Decision Can Change Everything”, p.11, Zondervan

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• All of us love miracles. We just don't like being in a situation that necessitates one.

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  Miracle, Situation

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• The more problems you have, the more potential you have to help people. One of the most paralyzing mistakes we make is thinking that our problems somehow disqualify us from being used by God. [...] If you don’t have any problems, you don’t have any potential. Here’s why. Your ability to help others heal is limited to where you’ve been wounded.

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  Mistake, Helping Others, Thinking

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.78, Multnomah

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• The gospel costs nothing. We cannot buy it or earn it. It can only be received as a free gift, compliments of God’s grace. So it costs nothing, but it demands everything. And that is where most of us get stuck — spiritual no-man’s-land. We’re too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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• Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do.

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  Prayer, Differences, Best God

  Twitter post from Nov 16, 2012

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• Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

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  Spiritual, Growth, Half

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.49, Multnomah

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• You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

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  Decision, Different, Defining

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• We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

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  Dying, Worth Living

  Mark Batterson (2009). “Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God”, p.16, Multnomah

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• Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.

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  Worry, Brain, Mind

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• Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous.

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  Jesus, Safe, Dangerous

  Mark Batterson (2013). “Going All In: One Decision Can Change Everything”, p.4, Zondervan

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• Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers. God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers-he is offended by Anything Less. If your prayers aren't impossible to You, they are insulting to God- why? Because they don't require divine intervention. But ask God to part the Red Sea or make the sun stand still or float an iron axhead and God is moved to Omnipotent action

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  Dream, Prayer, Sea

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• Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!

  Mark Batterson

  Darkness, Complaining, Needs

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• Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you'll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you've been-even when it seemed you'd taken a wrong turn.

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  Taken, Mirrors, Long

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• The more you’re willing to risk, the more God can use you. And if you’re willing to risk everything, then there is nothing God can’t do in you and through you.

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  Risk, Use, Willing

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.106, Multnomah

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• When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.

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  Giving, God Bless You, Standards

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2013

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• You don't have to do everything right as a parent, but there is one thing you cannot afford to get wrong. That one thing is prayer. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. There is nothing you can do that will have a higher return on investment. In fact, the dividends are eternal.

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  Prayer, Perfect Parents, Return

  "Praying Circles Around Your Children". Book by Mark Batterson, 2012.

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• God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

  Mark Batterson

  Want

  Twitter post from Aug 09, 2016

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• If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it.

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  Old Things, Different, Want

  Mark Batterson (2012). “Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge”, p.5, Zondervan

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