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September 21, 2017
“Lord of the universe, I swear before Your great name that I will not move from this circle until You have shown mercy upon Your children.”
His prayer was resolute yet humble, confident yet meek, expectant yet unassuming.
“Not for such rain have I prayed, but for rain that will fill cisterns, pits, and caverns.”
“Not for such rain have I prayed, but for rain of Your favor, blessing, and graciousness.”
Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers.
God isn’t offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren’t impossible to you, they are insulting to God.
There is nothing God loves more than keeping promises, answering prayers, performing miracles, and fulfilling dreams.
Who you become is determined by how you pray.
Drawing prayer circles starts with discerning what God wants, what God wills.
Miracles are the by-product of prayers that were prayed by you or for you.
The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered because they go unasked.
And His answers are not limited by your requests. We pray out of our ignorance, but God answers out of His omniscience. We pray out of our impotence, but God answers out of His omnipotence. God has the ability to answer the prayers we should have prayed but lacked the knowledge or ability to even ask.
if you draw prayer circles, God will answer those prayers somehow, someway, sometime.
The Book of Legends
It not only inspired me to pray bold prayers but also helped me pray with more perseverance.
You’ve got to define the promises God wants you to stake claim to, the miracles God wants you to believe for, and the dreams God wants you to pursue.
Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
The more faith you have, the more specific your prayers will be. And the more specific your prayers are, the more glory God receives.
Success is not circumstantial.
We usually focus on what we’re doing or where we’re going, but God’s primary concern is who we’re becoming in the process.
Success has nothing to do with how gifted or how resourced you are; it has everything to do with glorifying God in any and every situation by making the most of it. Success is spelled stewardship, and stewardship is spelled success.
Potential is God’s gift to us; what we do with it is our gift back to God.
If you don’t have a personal definition of success, chances are you will succeed at the wrong thing.
You need to circle the goals God wants you to go after, the promises God wants you to claim, and the dreams God wants you to pursue. And once you spell Jericho, you need to
circle it in prayer. Then you need to keep circling until the walls come tumbling down.
A change in scenery often translates into a change of perspective. A change in routine often results in revelation. In formulaic terms, change of pace + change of place = change of perspective.
Our generation desperately needs to rediscover the difference between praying for and praying through.
intercede until God intervenes.
You are always only one prayer away from a miracle.
Praying through doesn’t just bend God’s ear; it touches the heart of your heavenly Father.
But we should praise God for disappointment because it drives us to our knees. Disappointment is like dream defibrillation. If we respond to it the right way, disappointment can actually restore our prayer rhythm and resurrect our dreams.
After you pray through, you need to praise through. You need to quit asking God to do something and start praising Him for what He had already done. Prayer and praise are both expressions of faith, but praise is a higher dimension of faith. Prayer is asking God to do something, future tense; praise is believing that God has already done it, past tense.
God does miracles for one reason and one reason alone: to spell His glory. We just happen to be the beneficiaries.
when God gives you a promise, you need to praise Him for it.
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. And for the record, even 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.
Resurrection is something we celebrate every day in every way.
Prayer has the power to resurrect dead dreams and give them new life — eternal life.
And don’t just pray through; praise through.
At some point, most of us stop living out of imagination and start living out of memory.
Instead of creating the future, we start repeating the past. Instead of living by faith, we live by logic. Instead of going after our dreams, we stop circling Jericho.
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.
And it is God’s faithfulness that increases our faith and enlarges our dreams.
If you keep praying, you’ll keep dreaming,
and conversely, if you keep dreaming, you’ll keep praying.
Dreaming is a form of praying, and praying is a form of dreaming. The more you pray the bigger your dreams will become. And the bigger your dreams become the more you will have to pray. In that process of drawing ever-enla...
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When imagination is sacrificed on the altar of logic, God is robbed of the glory that rightfully belongs to Him.
Nothing honors God more than a big dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish.
Drawing prayer circles often looks like an exercise in foolishness. But that’s faith. Faith is the willingness to look foolish.
In order to experience a miracle, you have to take a risk. And one of the most difficult types of risk to take is risking your reputation.
If you’re unwilling to risk your reputation, you’ll never build the boat like Noah or get out of the boat like Peter. You cannot build God’s reputation if you aren’t willing to risk yours. There comes a moment when you need to make the call or make the move. Circle makers are risk takers.
