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• In my experience, it’s much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one. Anyone can put on an act. But your reactions reveal what is really in your heart.

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  Christian, Heart, Easier

  Mark Batterson (2009). “Primal: A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity”, p.22, Multnomah

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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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• Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn’t give you what you asked for?

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  Giving

  Mark Batterson (2016). “The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears”, p.66, Zondervan

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• The primary reason we lose faith is because we forget the faithfulness of God. Maybe that's why the word 'remember' is repeated 250 times in Scripture.

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  Scripture, Remember, Forget

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else

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  Ifs

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.52, Multnomah

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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