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
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.
The goal is glorifying God by drawing circles around the promises, miracles, and dreams He wants for you.
GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.
Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes.
If you are BIG ENOUGH for your dream, your dream isn't BIG ENOUGH for God.
The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.
Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical
More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.
You are only one prayer away from a dream fulfilled, a promise kept, or a miracle performed.
Nothing honors God more than a Big Dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish!
What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.
Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers. 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- why? Because they don't require divine intervention. But ask God to part the Red Sea or make the sun stand still or float an iron axhead and God is moved to Omnipotent action
May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.
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.