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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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• 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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• Sometimes God leads us to a place where we have nowhere to turn but to Him; our only option is to trust Him.

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  Nowhere To Turn, Sometimes, Turns

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• When you open your Bible, God opens His mouth.

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  Mouths

  Mark Batterson (2012). “Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge”, p.120, Zondervan

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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.

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  Want

  Twitter post from Aug 09, 2016

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• Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.

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  Prayer, Legacy, Inheritance

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• If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.

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  Opportunity, Perfect, Waiting

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.144, Multnomah

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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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• More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.

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  Dream, Excuse, Rational

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.144, Multnomah

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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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• 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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• Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Eye

  "Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge". Book by Mark Batterson, December 18, 2012.

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• God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

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  Ministry, Qualified, Marquee

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2014

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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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• 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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• 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!

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  Darkness, Complaining, Needs

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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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• Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do more.

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  Christian, Needs, Levels

  FaceBook post by Mark Batterson from Oct 26, 2014

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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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• 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, Jesus, Sin

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• Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous! Faithfulness isn't holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell with the light and love of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Light, And Love

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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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• If we do the little things like they are big things, then God will do the big things like they are little things.

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  Littles, Little Things, Bigs

  Twitter post from Jul 15, 2014

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• I’ve discovered that if I don’t take the first step, God generally won’t reveal the next step.

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  Next Steps, Firsts, First Steps

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• If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.

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  Bored, Christ, Following

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.61, Multnomah

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