Mark Batterson
Mark Batterson
Mark Batterson is an American pastor and author. Batterson serves as lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C. NCC was recognized as one of the Most Innovative and Most Influential Churches in America by Outreach Magazine in 2008. Batterson is also the author of the books In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day and Wild Goose Chase and blogs daily at www.evotional.com. Batterson's latest book The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.
The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.
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.
You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.
Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.
You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.
The plans of God are only revealed in the presence of God.
Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.
Who you become is determined by how you pray
Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you. Secret prayer is our secret weapon.
Whatever you don't turn into PRAISE turns into PRIDE.
You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.
I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?' It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does.