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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

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Mark Batterson
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: November 5
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We pray as if God’s chief objective is our personal comfort. It’s not. God’s chief objective is His glory.
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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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The outcome of your life will be determined by your outlook on life.
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And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.
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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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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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If you want to see God move make a move.
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If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.
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One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.
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If you want to find your voice, you need to hear the voice of God.
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The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.
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If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.
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I want to be famous in my home.
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In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.
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You are only one prayer away from a dream fulfilled, a promise kept, or a miracle performed.
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God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.
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