Top 79 If Mark Batterson Quotes
#1. If you're walking with Jesus and you invite someone to walk with you, there is a good chance they'll get to know Jesus somewhere along the way.
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#2. There are moments in life when you need to stop pleading and start praising. If God has put a promise in your heart, praise Him for it. You need to celebrate as if it has already happened. You need to stop asking, because God has already answered.
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#3. When God stirs our spirit or breaks our heart, we cannot sit back. We've got to step up and step in. We've got to go all in by going all out. But if we have the courage to make the choice or take the risk, it will become the defining moment of our lives.
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#4. 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.
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#5. If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.
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#6. It's not about being in the right place at the right time; it's about being the right person, even if you find yourself in the wrong circumstances.
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#7. If Christians believe that God is in every person, why don't we act like that?
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#8. The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.
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#9. The hardest thing about praying hard is enduring unanswered prayers. If you don't guard your heart, unresolved anger toward God can undermine faith.
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#10. If you want to find your voice, you need to hear the voice of God.
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#11. If you don't hold out on God, I can promise you this: God will not hold out on you. But it's all or nothing.
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#12. 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.
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#13. You don't need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.
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#14. If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.
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#15. ...faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers...
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#16. If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.
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#17. When we are born into this world, the world revolves around us. We're spoon-fed on the front end and diaper-changed on the back end. It's as if the entire world exists to meet our every need. And that's fine if you are a two-month-old baby. If you're twenty-two, it's a problem! Newsflash:
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#19. You cannot build God's reputation if you aren't willing to risk yours.
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#20. Don't seek miracles. Follow Jesus. And if you follow Jesus long enough and far enough, you'll eventually find yourself in the middle of some miracles.
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#21. If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.
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#22. If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.
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#23. If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.
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#24. The size of prayers depends on the size of our God. And if God knows no limits, then neither should our prayers.
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#25. Disappointment is like dream defibrillation. If we respond to it the right way, disappointment can actually restore our prayer rhythm and resurrect our dreams.
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#26. If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.
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#27. If you are BIG ENOUGH for your dream, your dream isn't BIG ENOUGH for God.
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#29. If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.
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#30. Fail. But I also believe this: One bold prayer can accomplish more than a thousand well-laid plans. So go ahead and plan, but make sure you circle your plans in prayer. If your plans aren't birthed in prayer and bathed in prayer, they won't succeed.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. If you want to break the sin habit, you'd better establish a prayer habit.
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#34. You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both. If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls.
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#35. If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.
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#37. I've discovered that if I don't take the first step, God generally won't reveal the next step.
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#38. If you don't take the risk, you forfeit the miracle.
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#39. Every divine appointment is preceded by a season of preparation. And if we submit to the preparation, God will fulfill His promise. If we don't, He won't. Why? Because God never sets us up to fail.
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#40. But if you make a move, you'll see God move. And He can move heaven and earth. Prayer
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#41. I threw in the obligatory "if it be Your will" at the end. That tagline may sound spiritual, but it was less a submission to God's will and more a profession of doubt. If you aren't careful, the will of God can become a cop-out if things don't turn out the way you want.
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#42. If you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.
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#43. 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?
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#44. As a child of God, you aren't just a manifestation of your biological family. You are a manifestation of your spiritual family - your true family of origin. If you let Him, the Spirit of God will manifest the Father and the Son through you.
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#45. Vision beyond your resources? Don't let fear dictate your decisions. If your vision is God-given, it will most definitely be beyond your ability and beyond your resources. The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.
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#46. Now here is what you need to understand: If you don't turn your adversity into a ministry, then your pain remains your pain. But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.
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#47. Humility is how we get out of the way of what God wants to do. And if we stay out of God's way, then there is nothing God cannot do in us and through us.
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#48. But what if, instead of spending all of our energy making plans for God, we spent that energy seeking God?
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#49. ...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.
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#50. You cannot be the hands and feet of Jesus if you're sitting on your butt.
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#51. Is there a limit to my power? The obvious answer to that question is no. God is omnipotent, which means by definition, there is nothing God cannot do. Yet many of us pray as if our problems are bigger than God.
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#52. It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: 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.
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#53. We pray as if God's chief objective is our personal comfort. It's not. God's chief objective is His glory.
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#54. Before you step into what if, you have to get past if only.
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#55. What if you quit making excuses, quit playing it safe, and quit hedging your bets?
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#56. Jesus proclaimed the favor of God in His very first sermon. Then He sealed the deal with His death and resurrection. Favor is a function of surrender. If we don't hold out on God, God will not hold out on us.
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#57. I've always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn't a magic formula, but it's an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.
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#58. If you keep circling the promise, God will ultimately deliver on it.
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#59. One of the most paralyzing mistakes we make is thinking that our problems somehow disqualify us from being used by God. Let me just say it like it is: 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.
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#60. God-ordained dreams aren't just born. They are reborn. If they become more important to you than God, you have to sacrifice them for the sake of your soul. You have to put them on the altar and raise the knife. And once the dream is dead and buried, it can be resurrected for God's glory.
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#61. Even if the people could no longer hear God, he believed that God could still hear them.
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#62. 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.
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#63. If the kingdom of God had departments, we'd want to work in research and development. We felt like Jesus didn't hang out at the synagogue, he hung out at wells. Coffeehouses are postmodern wells. Let's not wait for people to come to us, let's go to them.
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#64. We need to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
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#65. If you go all in and all out for the cause of Christ, there will be setbacks along the way. But remember this: without a crucifixion there can be no resurrection! And when you have a setback, you do not take a step back, because God is already preparing your comeback.
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#66. ...if you give all of yourself to God, you can ask and expect that God will give all of Himself to you because that's precisely what He wants to do. We have not because we ask not, and we ask not because we're not all in!
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#67. If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.
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#68. If you don't have a personal definition of success, chances are you will succeed at the wrong thing. You'll get to the end of your life and realize that you spelled success wrong. And if you spell it wrong, you'll get it wrong.
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#69. 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. And if you love God with all your heart, you won't just act like it. You'll react like it.
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#70. If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different.
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#71. If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.
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#72. There is a pattern repeated in Scripture: crazy miracles are the offspring of crazy faith. Normal begets normal. Crazy begets crazy. If we want to see God do crazy miracles, sometimes we need to pray crazy prayers.
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#73. You don't need wealth or position or power to make a difference. You just need to do the best you can with what you have where you are. And if you are faithful in Babylon, God will bless you in Jerusalem.
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#74. If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.
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#75. When you are tempted to compromise your integrity, remember than an opportunity isn't an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity.
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#76. If we do the little things like they are big things, then God will do the big things like they are little things.
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#77. Don't give up on your dream. If you do, you aren't just giving up on its present-tense reality. You're giving up on its future-tense potential. Were
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#78. If you're in a spiritual slump, let me give you a prescription: go on a mission trip.33 There is no better or sure way of coming out of the cage of routine. It's a cure-all.
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#79. If we don't control our calendar, our calendar will end up controlling us.
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