Mark Batterson Quotes

That goes with the saying that you call on God a lot of times and you pray for things and it may not happen at that moment.

You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.

How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?

Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

I believe in God. I got down on my knees and I said, 'I get it. If this isn't for me, then it isn't for me.' And then a week later, I started working. I worked on 'The Following,' I worked on 'Elementary,' I worked on a pilot and then I got 'Orange.' So literally from that moment of deep surrender, that's when you're blessed.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

God has never failed. I can sit here and say this. There is not anything in my life that I've prayed according to the word of God and I've not seen God answer.

'I have always asked God to guide me in each of my tasks.

If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, he'll heal your body and fix every one of your problems, if you need that, you're lost.

Recently I prayed, "Lord, I want to know your peace at all costs. I won't listen to the devil's lies any longer. I know my salvation is not in my performance. No, Jesus, you alone plead my case. I rest in what you've done for me." Can you say the same by faith?

Prayer begins where our power ends.

Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.

When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don't have you.

Desperation compels us to pray with fervent, focused faith - especially when we have no one else to turn to. God honors our faith when we place it in him alone - with no back-up plan, no other recourse, no other way out. He hears and answers our desperate heart cry, because he loves to show himself strong on our behalf.

When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.

You don’t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.