Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other. Mark Batterson More Quotes by Mark Batterson More Quotes From Mark Batterson God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go. Mark Batterson want Sometimes we're too focused on getting out of a situation that we don't think about what we can get out of the situation. Mark Batterson situation sometimes thinking Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes. Mark Batterson eye prayer spiritual Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles! Mark Batterson darkness complaining needs If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it. Mark Batterson old-things different want 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. Mark Batterson helping-others mistake thinking You don’t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you. Mark Batterson ifs opportunity needs 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. Mark Batterson impossible-situations omnipotence prayer 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. Mark Batterson insulting prayer dream Sometimes God leads us to a place where we have nowhere to turn but to Him; our only option is to trust Him. Mark Batterson nowhere-to-turn turns sometimes The more you’re willing to risk, the more God can use you. And if you’re willing to risk everything, then there is nothing God can’t do in you and through you. Mark Batterson willing risk use Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do. Mark Batterson best-god differences prayer The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US. Mark Batterson asks circumstances Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever. Mark Batterson generations prayer forever Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. Mark Batterson destiny prayer children I have an unshakable sense of destiny because I know that as long as I pursue God's calling on my life, then God is ultimately responsible for getting me where He wants me to go. Mark Batterson destiny calling long God won't answer 100% of the prayers we don't pray. Mark Batterson praying prayer answers Maybe it's time to stop creating God in our image and let Him create you in His. Mark Batterson creating 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. Mark Batterson easier christian heart Never underestimate the power of a single prayer. Mark Batterson never-underestimate underestimate prayer