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Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.

Mark Batterson

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Mark Batterson
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 5
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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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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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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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Finally, I learned that we shouldn’t seek answers as much as we should seek God.
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If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.
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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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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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