Quotes about Prayer
Why do we mistakenly think that God is offended by our prayers for the impossible? The truth is that God is offended by anything less! God is offended when we ask Him to do things we can do ourselves. It's the impossible prayers that honor God because they reveal our faith and allow God to reveal His glory.
- Mark Batterson
We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.
- Mark Batterson
The more faith you have, the more specific your prayers will be. And the more specific your prayers are, the more glory God receives.
- Mark Batterson
God won't answer 100 percent of the prayers we don't pray.
- Mark Batterson
Never underestimate the power of a single prayer. God can do anything through anyone who circles their big dreams with bold prayers. With God, there is no precedent, because all things are possible.
- Mark Batterson
If you want to break the sin habit, you'd better establish a prayer habit.
- Mark Batterson
Prayer and imagination are directly proportional: the more you pray the bigger your imagination becomes because the Holy Spirit supersizes it with God-sized dreams.
- Mark Batterson
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.
- Mark Batterson
even if the people could no longer hear God, he believed that God could still hear them.
- Mark Batterson
Prayer is the way we write the future.
- 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
When you pray regularly, you never know when God will show up or speak up. Today could be the day. When you live in prayer mode, you live with holy anticipation. You know that coincidences are providences. Any moment can turn into a holy moment. God can invade the reality of your life at three o'clock one afternoon and change everything.
- Mark Batterson