The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears

by Mark Batterson

His promises don’t have expiration dates.

Drawing prayer circles starts with identifying your Jericho. 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.

Then you need to keep circling until God gives you what He wants and He wills. That’s the goal.

What do you want me to do for you?

If faith is being sure of what we hope for, then being unsure of what we hope for is the antithesis of faith,

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

We pursue different dreams during different stages of life. We stake claim to different promises in different situations. It’s a moving target, but

Don’t just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals.

Don’t just pray. Keep a prayer journal.

What seemed like the wrong answer turned out to be the best answer.

I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t want to be successful, but very few people have actually spelled out success for themselves. We inherit a family definition or adopt a cultural definition. But if you don’t spell it out for yourself, you have no way of knowing if you’ve achieved it. You might achieve your goals only to realize that they should not have been your goals in the first place. You circle the wrong city. You climb the wrong ladder.

Do the best you can with what you have where you are.

God’s primary concern is who we’re becoming in the process.

it’s about being the right person, even if you find yourself in the wrong circumstances.

glorifying God in any and every situation by making the most of it.