Quotes about Trust
You don't have to live in fear that God is going to take away what is most important to you. After all, Isaac was God's gift to Abraham. But if the gift ever becomes more important than the Gift Giver, then the very thing God gave you to serve His purposes is undermining His plan for your life. God is no longer the End All and Be All. And when God becomes the means to some other end, it's the beginning of the end spiritually because you have inverted the gospel.
- Mark Batterson
One step of obedience can open your eyes. One step of obedience can reverse the curse. One step of obedience can begin a new chapter in your life!
- Mark Batterson
When did we start believing that God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?
- Mark Batterson
The beauty of obedience is this: it relieves us of responsibility. It takes all the pressure off of us and places it squarely on God's sovereign shoulders.
- Mark Batterson
100 percent of the prayers I don't pray won't get answered.
- Mark Batterson
If we want to see God move, we need to make a move. If it seems like God isn't moving in our lives, maybe it's because we aren't moving. But if we make a move, God will move heaven and earth to honor our faith.
- Mark Batterson
Put your Isaac on the altar! Then, and only then, will you see what God can do. He cannot give back what you do not give up. But if you surrender yourself to Him, He will provide the ram in the thicket.
- Mark Batterson
If we do the little things like they are big things, then God will do the big things like they are little things.
- Mark Batterson
Perhaps the LORD will act in our behalf." Don't play defense with your life. Play offense with your kids, your wife, your life. Don't look for the path of least resistance. The hard way is the best way! And quit living as if the will of God is an insurance plan. Dare to dream great things for God.
- Mark Batterson
God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. But the right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.
- Mark Batterson
the purpose of prayer is not to get what you want; the goal of prayer is to discern what God wants
- Mark Batterson
One reason we turn a deaf ear to God is because we're afraid of what He's going to say, but that's because we don't know His heart toward us. You want to hear what He has to say. Trust me. The Song of Songs says, 'His mouth is sweetness itself.
- Mark Batterson