The Circle Maker
Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
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4.8 • 93 Ratings
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
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 lifeUncover your heart's hidden desiresPursue God-sized dreamsConnect with God in fresh waysDeepen your faith and your relationship with prayerDraw prayer circles around your family, your community, your challenges, and your dreams
This updated and expanded edition of The Circle Maker also includes new 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.
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In his latest book, Washington, D.C., area pastor-author Batterson (In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day) says his method of talking to God "has the power to revolutionize the way you pray" and he just might be right. Yet this method isn't packaged with hipster edge or a 10-step strategy. Batterson uses timeless knowledge and tales that predate Jesus to urge the reader to simply drop to his knees. Beginning with the Jewish legend of Honi, who drew a circle around himself and prayed for rain, Batterson examines the answered prayers of several "circle makers." The circle metaphor is applied loosely throughout the book (e.g., walking in prayer circles, praying in a group, praying repeatedly for a concern), making it accessible in multiple situations. At times Batterson's excitement manifests as cutesy bumper sticker like phrases, and he spends much of the book recounting his own church's miraculous growth. But readers will fall for his intensity and encouragement to pray "tenaciously." The unearthed technique will have readers drawing prayer circles around everything from buildings and news to their own hopes and dreams.
Customer Reviews
Love This Book
The Circle Maker is a book that I had a difficult time putting down the first time I read it.
It has changed my Prayer Life and I hope that it changes yours. I have a small group of friends and I have purchased the book for several of them and have had positive feedback from them all.
I work at a small car dealership who was focused on getting to 150 cars a month. Which was difficult because I came from a store that sold 600 cars a month.
I did a Prayer Circle around their building everyday that I worked for months.
In less than a year we hit 250 cars a month and we are striving for more, long gone was the focus on getting to 150.
Praying with a new fervor
This book inspired me to start my own prayer circle and begin circling my faith, my family, and friends in prayer in new and exciting ways. My faith and my prayers are forever changed.
Great book!
A must read!