Quotes from Mark Batterson

But what if, instead of spending all of our energy making plans for God, we spent that energy seeking God?

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.

Never underestimate the ripple effect of one act of obedience. It will never be all for nothing.

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

Prayer isn't just the way we cultivate our own potential; prayer is the way we recognize potential in others. Like Paul, who saw gifts in Timothy that Timothy couldn't see in himself, we, through prayer, are enabled to see with prophetic eyes. We are given supernatural insight. Then we are prepared to speak with prophetic boldness into the lives God has positioned in our path.

Experiences are the currency of a life well lived.

God doesn't always call us to win. Sometimes He just calls us to try. Either way, it's obedience that glorifies God.

Please read prayerfully what I'm about to write. When God puts a passion in your heart, whether it be relieving starvation in Africa or educating children in the inner city or making movies with redemptive messages, that God-ordained passion becomes your responsibility. And you have a choice to make. Are you going to be irresponsibly responsible or responsibly irresponsible?

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!

Sometimes God shows up. Sometimes God shows off.

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.

Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.