Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers. God isn't offended by your biggest dreams and boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God. Why? Because they don't require divine intervention. But ask God to part the Red Sea or make the sun stand still or float an iron axhead, and God is moved to omnipotent action.
There is nothing God loves more than keeping promises, answering prayers, performing miracles, and fulfilling dreams. That is who He is. That is what He does. The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory. The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect -- and they intersect when we draw a circle around the impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene.
-- Mark Batterson in The Circle Maker
Note: As you may know, most of the quotes I share through SOUND BITES come from my own reading. Today's quote comes from an author (note the Author's Blog to the right) I have shared before, but from a brand new book called The Circle Maker. Using the true legend of Honi the circle maker, who prayer-walked his way around devastating drought in the first-century BC Israel until the rains came, Batterson encourages us to identify the dreams and future miracles we need to draw circles around to find our answers from God.
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