Quotes about Trust
He allows our small plans to fail so that His big dream for us can prevail. So keep planning like it depends on you, but make sure you pray like it depends on God. Prayer is the alpha and omega of planning. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.
- Mark Batterson
Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.
- Mark Batterson
You've heard the adage: "God said it, I believe it, and that settles it." Here's a fresh take on that old truth: God said it, I've circled it, and that settles it.
- Mark Batterson
So thank God for opposition. It forces us to pray like it depends on god, which it does. And it reconditions our reflexes in the process.
- Mark Batterson
If faith is being sure of what we hope for, then being unsure of what we hope for is the antithesis of faith, isn't it?
- Mark Batterson
They force me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.
- Mark Batterson
New Testament scholar Dr. Gordon Fee said that life is a wilderness, and a compass doesn't help very much. A map certainly doesn't help because you have to know where you are for starters. What you need in a place you've never been before is a guide. Jesus becomes the Guide to the Father's house.
- Mark Batterson
When we go adventuring with Jesus, He takes us places we never dreamed we could go, gives us ideas we never thought we could have, and gives us friends that last forever.
- Mark Batterson
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
if God doesn't answer the way you want, you still need to praise through. That is when it's most difficult to praise God, but that is also when our praise is most pure and most pleasing to God.
- Mark Batterson
the God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.
- Mark Batterson
God is setting you up! He is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. And His angels are our advance team! Each trip around the sun has been carefully choreographed for us by the Creator of the universe. We just need to take His cues.
- Mark Batterson