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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.

Mark Batterson

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Mark Batterson
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 5
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The outcome of your life will be determined by your outlook on life.
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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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Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.
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The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.
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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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Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes.
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The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.
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Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.
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Learning isn't a luxury it's a stewardship issue
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You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time.
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Don’t accumulate possessions accumulate experiences!
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Leaders need the courage to acknowledge when something isn't working.
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You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!
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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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Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.
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If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.
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If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.
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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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