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When rain is plentiful, it’s an afterthought. During a drought, it’s the only thought.
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. 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. And the bigger the circle we draw, the better,
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Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.
until His sovereign will becomes your sanctified wish, your prayer life will be unplugged from its power supply.
Most of us don’t get what we want simply because we don’t know what we want. We’ve never circled any of God’s promises. We’ve never written down a list of life goals. We’ve never defined success for ourselves. And our dreams are as nebulous as cumulus clouds. Instead of drawing circles, we draw blanks.
that is where drawing prayer circles begins: knowing what to circle.
our prayers aren’t just boring to us; they are uninspiring to God.
Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
Don’t just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don’t just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don’t just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.
“God does not answer vague prayers.”
We talk about “doing” the will of God, but the will of God has much more to do with “being” than “doing.”
It’s not about being in the right place at the right time; it’s about being the right person, even if you find yourself in the wrong circumstances.
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 spelle...
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Circle makers are history makers.
Moses had no earthly idea how God was going to keep His promise, but that isn’t our business anyway. That is God’s business. Too often we let how get in the way of what God wants us to do. We can’t figure out how to do what God has called us to do, so we don’t do it at all.
It often seems like circling the promises of God is risky, but it’s not nearly as risky as not circling the promises of God. The greatest risk is failing to circle the promises of God because we forfeit the miracles God wants to perform.
But here is what I learned about arguments with God: If you win the argument you actually lose, and if you lose the argument, you actually win.
If you give beyond your ability, God will bless you beyond your ability.
If you believe that, you’ll circle the promises of God and reap the reward. If you don’t, you won’t.
when you add God into the equation of your finances, it changes the game.
If you give generously and sacrificially, the day may come when you’re giving more than you’re currently making.
God isn’t offended by big dreams;
Faith is allowing your God-given vision to determine your budget.
If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.
If you seek answers you won’t find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.
In fact, prayer turns life into a party, a gift, a romance.
God has surprised me so many times that I’m no longer surprised by His surprises.
“Lord, do something unpredictable and uncontrollable.”
That prayer habit kept him dialed into God’s frequency and set the stage for this vision.
Only God.
If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history.
I just think God is sometimes amazed at how small our plans are.
Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.
God is infinitely bigger than your biggest problem or biggest dream.
His grace is infinitely bigger than your biggest sin.
a low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils, but a high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.
Our biggest problem is our small view of God.
Once you experience a miracle, there is no turning back. It is difficult to doubt God.
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
By definition, a big dream is a dream that is bigger than you.
If you’ve never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven’t really come to life.
If you’ve never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small.
If your vision isn’t perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuse...
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But it doesn’t matter if you qualify for the loan, qualify for the job, or qualify for the program. If God has called you, you’re qualified.
The issue is never, “Are you qualified?” The issue is always, “Are you called?”
If you want to keep growing spiritually, you need to keep stretching. How? By going after dreams that are bigger than you are.
Praying hard is praying through.
How desperate are you for the miracle? Desperate
enough to pray through the night?
If you aren’t desperate, you won’t take desperate measures.
