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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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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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Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
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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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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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If you've never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven't really come to life. If you've never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small. If your vision isn't perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuses of your prayer circles.
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We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.
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