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You cannot be the hands and feet of Jesus if you're sitting on your butt.
- Mark Batterson
God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time.
- Mark Batterson
Every once in a while, I need a no-agenda day with nothing to do, but those aren't the days we're going to celebrate at the end of our lives. We won't even remember those days. What we'll remember are the days when we had everything to do, and with God's help, we did it. We won't remember the things that came easy; we'll remember the things that came hard. We'll remember the miracles on the far side of "long and boring.
- Mark Batterson
God wants to do so much more than simply forgive your sin. He wants to leverage your past regrets for His eternal purpose.
- Mark Batterson
Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell. The will of God is not an insurance plan. It's a daring plan. The complete surrender of your life to the cause of Christ isn't radical. It's normal. It's time to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. It's time to go all in and all out for the All in All. Pack your coffin!
- Mark Batterson
We need to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
- Mark Batterson
Prayer must be in alignment with the will of God or it's null and void... It it's not God's will, you're not going to get whatever you ask for. God loves you far too much to spoil you in that way. But if it is God's will, God will make a way.
- Mark Batterson
Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
- Mark Batterson
Consecration is death to self. I know there is a fear that if we give more of ourselves to God, there will be less of us left, but it's the exact opposite. It's not until we die to self that we truly come alive. The more we give to God, the more we have and the more we become. It's only in losing our lives that we will really find them.
- Mark Batterson
Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goals help us live out of imagination.
- Mark Batterson
Jesus didn't die on the cross just to keep you safe. He died to make you dangerous--a threat to the enemy. He died so that you could make a difference for all eternity.
- Mark Batterson
The blessings of God will complicate your life, but unlike sin, they will complicate your life in the way it should be complicated.
- Mark Batterson