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

    Written by Mark Batterson

    Narrated by Mark Batterson

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    About this audiobook

    Bold Prayers Honor God and God Honors Bold Prayers.

    With over one million copies sold, New York Times bestseller The Circle Maker is a must-read for experiencing breakthroughs in your prayer life. 

    Do you ever sense that there's far more to prayer than what you're experiencing? Are you praying over your impossible dreams and greatest fears? Do you feel like something is holding you back in your prayer life?

    It's time you learned from the legend of Honi the Circle Maker. When his land was drought-stricken in ancient times, Honi ha-M'agel drew a circle in the sand, stepped inside it, and wouldn't budge until God answered his petition for rain. Honi's story transformed author Mark Batterson's own experience with prayer and inspired him to document his journey to praying more powerful prayers in The Circle Maker.

    Sharing inspiring stories from modern-day circle makers as well as his own experiences, Mark imparts the timeless wisdom and encouragement you need to:

    • Discern God's will for your life
    • Uncover your heart's hidden desires
    • Pursue God-sized dreams
    • Connect with God in fresh ways
    • Deepen your faith and your relationship with prayer
    • Draw prayer circles around your family, your community, your challenges, and your dreams

     The Circle Maker includes insights about the ways that God answers prayer along with stories that add convincing proof to the reality that God is able to do exceedingly far greater than all we could ask or imagine.

    Learn for yourself that drawing prayer circles around our dreams isn't just a way that we accomplish great things for God--it's a way that God accomplishes great things in us.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateDec 20, 2011
    ISBN9780310333043
    The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatet Fears
    Author

    Mark Batterson

    Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, DC. One church with multiple locations, NCC owns and operates Ebenezers Coffeehouse, the Miracle Theatre, and the DC Dream Center. NCC is currently developing a city block into the Capital Turnaround; the 100,000-square-foot space will include an event venue, a child development center, a mixed-use marketplace, and a coworking space. Mark holds a doctor of ministry degree from Regent University and is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty books including The Circle Maker, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day, Wild Goose Chase, Play the Man, Whisper, and recently released Win the Day. Mark and his wife, Lora, have three children and live on Capitol Hill.

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    • 5/5
      This audiobook has changed my prayer life and my future. It's a must read for those who want to make a difference in our world.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Fired up my heart! Great book on prayer. Very Powerful!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Great read my heart was blessed and I will form my circle.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this book. I have had a revival in my prayer life and ministry

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Such a great book! I read this originally back in 2013 and God did amazing things then. However, this is a book that deserves to be revisited time and time again. God will reveal new and more amazing things with every read. This book could not have come in a better season where I needed to stand in faith. I started praying 3 weeks ago for a 4 bedroom house with a finished basement. Our lease was going to be up in May, so I was just praying for the house in advance. Two weeks into that prayer circle, I got an email from my landlord stating that the lease was actually up in March and that he was going to put it on the market at that point. So suddenly those prayer circles I was praying became so much more real. However, instead of the panic that set in, God reminded me of the prayer circle I had drawn (it's literally drawn on a piece of paper and taped to our wall next to my computer) and how He was just answering my prayer early. This afternoon, we will be able to go pick out a house. Guess which one is my favorite? A 4 bedroom house with a finished basement! Thank you, Mark, for writing a timeless book!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Very inspiring! This book inspired me to persue my dreams and to dream bigger. Never stop praying.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent book for anyone trusting God for answers to prayer! A must read.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Audaciously believing what God has in store for you! Ps expounded on the need to pray and things to complement with!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I drew a circle around 2 major prayer requests in January. God fulfilled both.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Goals are dreams with deadlines. Very interesting fact-based book! Recommend to read if you are lost or on the crossroads about your dreams.

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    • 5/5
      This is a life changing book! First audio book that I have finished in its entirety and I am going to listen to it again! Thank you so much my brother in Christ for this book for all of the ages!

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    • 5/5
      Amazing book. Highly recommend. It is helping me on my journey to God. Bought several for friends!
    • 5/5
      This book is an excellent read. It is very inspiring and prayer provoking.
    • 5/5
      Here you will find inspiration and clarity on the importance of prayer.
    • 5/5
      Very good balance of the big picture as well as the details of prayer... Leaving this book feeling equipped and challenged to surround my life in specific prayer and to dream bigger!!!
    • 5/5
      I Loved it. Will listen to it again and again.
    • 1/5
      This is definitely NOT a Christian book. Just a mystical book. I am sorry towards the author, but to anyone who wants to read this book, you should watch first a video on YouTube by James&Lea D - Philia Ministries called The Circle Maker: Witchcraft in the Church. All of this is related to New Age stuff, and we should all stay away from it, since it is not coming from God.
    • 5/5
      I loved the author’s practical insight to prayer! Powerful!
    • 4/5
      Good challenging book that sometimes threatens to go to platitudes and slogans. But when the author is teaching and exhorting there is some good stuff here.
    • 4/5
      If a group is wanting to study prayer Mark's book is a great place to start. The Circle Maker allowed us to look at prayer through a lens I had not looked through before and even a few years after reading it for the first time I still incorporate principles from the book into my prayer life.ACF: Todd Nagel, not currently in ACF's library.
    • 5/5
      Rated: A-Truly inspiration relating to your prayer life. You can't read this book and not dream big, think long and pray hard.
    • 4/5
      Good men's group bible discussion book, but I wouldn't put it near the top of inspirational books I've read. I did enjoy the author's stance on the importance of prayer and how we as Christians should be diligent about it, but....and you knew there was a but...some of his comments on parts of the Bible and "what God wants" seemed a little off kilter to me. It is thought provoking, though.
    • 3/5
      This book was okay. It helped remind me how important it is to pray for people in my life, and to keep praying and believing no matter how long it takes. The book was very repetitive though. I'm also a little uncomfortable with the whole circle thing. I'm not real sure how Biblical that actually is. Some of the book seemed to skirt awfully close to the name it and claim it prosperity stuff that I steer clear of. I think it would help to actually know the man to really be able to see what kind of man he is and the fruit he produces.
    • 1/5
      Bear in mind that the basic premise of this book is a supposed historical event (you can never argue with experiences). Problematically, history can never tell you what ought to be; history can only tell you what happened. Yet, author Mark Batterson bases his entire argument on what happened (experience) a generation before Jesus came, not what the Bible says ought to be (principle). Unfortunately, there is no Scripture Index--which is always telling in a book that is purportedly "Christian"--and I could find no reference to Matthew 6, which is a primary text of Jesus' teaching on prayer."The earth has circled the sun more than two thousand times since the day Honi drew his circle in the sand, but God is still looking for circle makers" (page 13). How he knows this is God's current activity Batterson does not say.The author asserts that the failure to pray dream fulfilling and miraculous prayers is due to our not coming to terms with the truth that God is for us. However, the Apostle Paul assets (under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit), that the conviction that God is for us is grounded in the atoning work of Christ, and he makes no mention of prayer in the context. Therefore, Batterson is, at best, guilty of synthetically interpreting (eisegesis - get a dictionary) Scripture.Because God tells us to "redeem the time", I cannot suggest you read this book.However, if you want to read a book that makes unfounded assertions, misrepresents God and and his Word, and lacks cogent argumentation, I highly recommend you read this volume. Otherwise, use it, page by page, for starting fires on cold winter mornings.If you want to read a good book on prayer, find one that starts out citing Scripture and does so the entire way.