The Circle Maker (Enhanced Edition): Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears

by Mark Batterson

God is for you. If you don’t believe that, then you’ll pray small timid prayers; if you do believe it, then you’ll pray big audacious prayers.

Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

Drawing prayer circles starts with discerning what God wants, what God wills.

I felt underqualified and overwhelmed, but that is when God has you right where He wants you. That is how you learn to live in raw dependence — and raw dependence is the raw material out of which God performs His greatest miracles.

The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered because they go unasked.

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.

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.