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
We pray as if God’s chief objective is our personal comfort. It’s not. God’s chief objective is His glory.
And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.
When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.
The only way you can fail is if you stop praying
Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence.
Who you become is determined by how you pray
You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.
God won't answer 100% of the prayers we don't pray.
Have you ever noticed that when you pray, coincidences happen? And when you don't, they don't.
Too often the word 'prayer' induces guilt because we don't do enough of it. After all, I've never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.
The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.
Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.
Don't seek opportunity. Seek God and opportunity will seek you.
Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.