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
It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for you. If you don't believe that, then you'll pray small timid prayers; if you do believe it, then you'll pray big audacious prayers.
Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing.
Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.
If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.
Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes.
God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.
If you want to see God move make a move.
CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.
God won't answer 100% of the prayers we don't pray.
GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.
To the infinite, all finites are equal.
The outcome of your life will be determined by your outlook on life.
In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.