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Don’t just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don’t just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don’t just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.

Mark Batterson

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Mark Batterson
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 5
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Vision beyond your resources? Don't let fear dictate your decisions. If your vision is God-given, it will most definitely be beyond your ability and beyond your resources. The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.
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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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You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.
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I just don't think pastors should turn their pulpits into public policy platforms. It cheapens the gospel. Our congregation doesn't need another political opinion. They need spiritual revelation. They don't need to think about politics on the weekend. They need to be reminded to seek first the kingdom of God.
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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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The more you’re willing to risk, the more God can use you. And if you’re willing to risk everything, then there is nothing God can’t do in you and through you.
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One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.
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I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he could say more with fewer words than anybody. Most of the parables were less than 250 words. And, boy, did he have some one-liners just packed with truth.
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I’ve discovered that if I don’t take the first step, God generally won’t reveal the next step.
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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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May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.
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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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Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.
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God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.
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The outcome of your life will be determined by your outlook on life.
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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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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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The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.
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And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.
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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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