Quotes about Prayer
The Aramaic word for prayer (slotha) means 'to set a trap.' Opportunities are like wild animals.
- Mark Batterson
Lord, surprise us.
- Mark Batterson
God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less.
- Mark Batterson
Prayer is priming. Prayer puts us in a spiritual frame of mind. Prayer helps us see and seize the God-ordained opportunities that are all
- Mark Batterson
If you establish a prayer routine, your life will be anything but routine. You will go to places, do things, and meet people you have no business going to, doing, or meeting. You don't need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.
- Mark Batterson
The size of prayers depends on the size of our God. And if God knows no limits, then neither should our prayers. God exists outside of the four space time dimensions He created. We should pray that way!
- Mark Batterson
The more you pray, the more you will experience holy surprises.
- Mark Batterson
Praying hard is not the past of least resistance; it's usually the path of most resistance because we engage in spiritual warfare. In fact, when we begin interceding for others, we better make sure that others are interceding for us. We need a prayer circle that provides a prayer covering.
- Mark Batterson
Drawing prayer circles starts with discerning what God wants, what God wills. And until His sovereign will becomes your sanctified wish, your prayer life will be unplugged from its power supply. Sure, you can apply some of the principles of becoming a circle maker, and they may help you get what you want, but getting what you want isn't the goal; the goal is glorifying God by drawing circles around the promises, miracles, and dreams He wants for you.
- Mark Batterson
If your plans aren't birthed in prayer and bathed in prayer, they won't succeed.
- Mark Batterson
it's the prayers you pray when you feel like you want to quit praying that can bring the biggest breakthroughs.
- Mark Batterson
Sometimes the power of prayer is the power to carry on. It doesn't always change your circumstances, but it gives you the strength to walk through them.
- Mark Batterson