Mark Batterson
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.Collection: Experience
You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.Collection: Have Faith
Jesus didn’t die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It’s storming the gates of hell. The will of God is not an insurance plan. It’s a daring plan. The complete surrender of your life to the cause of Christ isn’t radical. It’s normal. It’s time to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. It’s time to go all in and all out for the All in All. Pack your coffin!Collection: Jesus
The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.Collection: Circumstances
There comes a moment when you must quit talking to God about the mountain in your life and start talking to the mountain about your God. You proclaim His power. You declare His sovereignty. You affirm His faithfulness. You stand on His Word. You cling to His promises.Collection: Talking
Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path.Collection: Running
If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.Collection: God
The outcome of your life will be determined by your outlook on life.Collection: Outlook On Life
We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.Collection: Focus
You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. ...Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Giving
One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.Collection: Spiritual
Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.Collection: Remember
Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.Collection: Dream
And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.Collection: Praying
One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Dream
Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory. The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect — and they intersect when we draw a circle around the impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene.Collection: Prayer
Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous.Collection: Jesus
We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying forCollection: Dying
The gospel costs nothing. We cannot buy it or earn it. It can only be received as a free gift, compliments of God’s grace. So it costs nothing, but it demands everything. And that is where most of us get stuck — spiritual no-man’s-land. We’re too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Mistake
Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.Collection: Purpose
Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you'll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you've been-even when it seemed you'd taken a wrong turn.Collection: Taken
God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.Collection: Want
We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.Collection: Giving Up
The plans of God are only revealed in the presence of God.Collection: Plans
Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn’t give you what you asked for?Collection: Giving
Never underestimate the power of a single prayer.Collection: Prayer
You need to circle the goals God wants you to go after, the promises God wants you to claim, and the dreams God wants you to pursue. And once you spell Jericho, you need to circle it in prayer. Then you need to keep circling until the walls come tumbling down.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Dream
Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way!Collection: Years
Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.Collection: Wise
Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you. Secret prayer is our secret weapon.Collection: Prayer
God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.Collection: Wish
The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.Collection: Blessing
Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't be the only one missing out or losing out. When you lack the courage to chase the Wild Goose, the opportunity costs are staggering. Who might not hear about the love of God if you don't seize the opportunity to tell them? Who might be stuck in poverty, stuck in ignorance, stuck in pain if you're not there to help free them? Where might the advance of God's kingdom in the world stall out because you weren't there on the front lines?Collection: Pain
Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence.Collection: Praying
The only way you can fail is if you stop praying.Collection: Way
As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.Collection: Opportunity
What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.Collection: Dream
You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep themCollection: Jobs
We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace.Collection: Leadership
Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.Collection: Letting Go
May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.Collection: Dream
Praying through is all about CONSISTENCY and INTENSITY. It's 'all-nighter' prayer. It just won't take 'NO' for an answer!Collection: Prayer
It’s much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one!Collection: Christian
Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer