All of us love miracles. We just don’t like being in situations where we need one.
If God is speaking to your heart, don’t let your mind get in the way of what God wants you to do.
Minds often remain closed to truth until hearts have been opened by compassion.
Don’t let what’s wrong with you keep you from worshiping what’s right with God.
Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.
God never calls us to do something we’re capable of. God calls us to do things that are beyond our ability so He gets all the credit.
His power + your effort = supernatural synergy
I wonder if we’re so afraid of doing the wrong thing that we never do the right thing.
If you aren’t believing God for big things, you probably aren’t praying regularly or intensively enough.
If we had a larger vision of what God wanted to accomplish in us and through us, our petty problems would cease to exist because they would cease to be important.
It’s our capacity for prayer that will ultimately determine our creative potential.
One prayer can change the course of history.
Prayer heightens our awareness and gives us a sixth sense that enables us to perceive spiritual realities.
Prayer is also when God speaks to us through dreams and desires and promptings and impressions and ideas.
Prayer is the mechanism whereby God’s ideas are conceived and captured.
Prayer turns us into first-class noticers. It helps us see what God wants us to notice. The more you pray, the more you notice.
Praying hard is two dimensional: praying like it depends on God, and working like it depends on you.
Sometimes loving God with all your heart simply means listening to your heart instead of your head.
The bigger the dream the harder you will have to pray.
The Holy Spirit compensates for our sensory limits by enabling us to conceive of things we cannot perceive with our five senses.
Be specific in what you are asking for from God. Most people don’t know when God answers a prayer because they are praying very general prayers.
Don’t be afraid of praying something that isn’t God’s will. If it not God’s will he won’t answer it, but being afraid of praying something that isn’t God’s will keeps people from praying bold prayers.
Each prayer is a time capsule. You never know when or where or how God is going to answer it, but He will answer it.
Faith is the willingness to look foolish.
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.
God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.
God is still honoring those who pray with audacity and tenacity.
God is waiting on people who will pray and dream big prayers, and work hard to see them come to pass.
Having vision beyond your resources is synonymous with dreaming big.
If you aren’t careful, the will of God can become a cop-out if things don’t turn out the way you want.
If you aren’t willing to listen to everything [Holy Spirit] has to say, you won’t hear anything He has to say.
If you give beyond your ability, God will bless you beyond your ability.
If you’re bored, one thing is for sure: You’re not following in the footsteps of Christ.
If your prayers aren’t impossible to you, they are insulting to God.
One of the most difficult types of risk to take is risking your reputation.
Prayer and imagination are directly proportional: the more you pray the bigger your imagination becomes because the Holy Spirit supersizes it with God-sized dreams.
Prayer is the way we escape the gravitational pull of the flesh and enter God’s orbit.
Prayers are prophesies. The transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.
Praying is planting. Each prayer is like a seek 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.
Sometimes the power of prayer is the power to carry on. It doesn’t always change your circumstances, but it gives you the strength to walk through them.
The more you pray the more you will pray for God’ will.
The only way you can fail is if you stop praying.
The same voice that spoke order into chaos at the dawn of creation is still doing it. He can speak order into the chaos of your life.
There is nothing God loves more than keeping promises, answering prayer, performing miracles, and fulfilling dreams.
Until you hear the voice of God, you won’t be able to sing His song.
Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.
You are only one prayer away from a dream fulfilled, a promise kept, or a miracle performed.
What you need is a vision from God that captures you imagination and consumes your energy.
God is always preparing & positioning us for divine appointments. And prayer is the way we discern our next move.
God usually doesn’t reveal the second step until we take the first step.
If you stay humble and stay hungry, there is nothing God cannot do in you and through you.
The greatest tragedy in life are the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.
When you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.
Many of these quotes come from Batterson's NY Times bestselling book, The Circle Maker. Pick it out and dive more deeply into the meaning of these quotes.
