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Bold prayers honor God and God honors bold prayers.
Do you ever sense that theres far more to prayer than what youre experiencing? This four-session video-based Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately) is for believers who love God with a passion, but have slipped into a spiritual rut. Its time to enter a whole new level of extreme faith...its time to become a circle maker!
Through the story of Honi the Circle Makera man bold enough to draw a circle in the sand and not budge from it until God answered his prayer for his peoplebestselling author and pastor Mark Batterson will help you see that who you become is determined by how you pray. Throughout this guide, Batterson:
This Participant Guide provides individual and group activities, between session personal studies, and additional background material that will enhance the experience of the video on The Circle Maker DVD (sold separately).
Sessions include:
1. Becoming a Circle Maker
2. Little People, Big Risks, and Huge Circles
3. Praying Hard and Praying Through
4. Praying is Like Planting
Designed for use with The Circle Maker Video Study (sold separately).
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Participants Guide
Four Sessions
Praying Circles Around Your
Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
Mark Batterson
with Kevin and Sherry Harney
T here 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.
The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect and this happens when we draw a circle of prayer around impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene.
It is absolutely imperative that followers of Jesus come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for us. If we do not believe this, we will pray small and timid prayers. If we live with confidence that God is for us, we will pray big, audacious prayers.
Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictors of our spiritual future. Who we become is determined by how we pray. Ultimately, the transcript of our prayers becomes the script of our lives.
In this four-session small group curriculum, you will learn how to claim God-given promises, pursue God-sized dreams, and seize God-ordained opportunities. You will learn how to draw prayer circles around your family, your job, your church, your problems, your goals, and your dreams.
As you discover the power of becoming a circle maker, it is essential that you understand this is not learning some magic trick or manipulative system to get what you want from God. The One who made the universe is not some genie in a bottle who pops out when we decide we need Him saying, Your wish is my command. If we want to experience powerful prayer, His command needs to be our wish! If it is not, we wont be drawing prayer circles, but we will end up walking in circles.
In the coming weeks you will dig deep into Gods Word, hear and tell many stories of faith, and learn about circle making. By Gods grace and with the leading of the Holy Spirit, you will become a circle maker and enter a new season of joy, effectiveness, and power in prayer. You will learn that drawing prayer circles starts with discerning what God wants and wills. Until His sovereign will becomes your sanctified wish, your prayer life will be unplugged from its power supply. When you plug into Gods will and power supply, you will learn to draw prayer circles around the promises, miracles, and dreams God wants for you.
Know that as you learn together as a group, I have circled you in prayer and I have a holy anticipation that God is going to do amazing things in and through you.
Enjoy the journey,
Mark Batterson
The quotations interspersed throughout this participants guide are excerpts from the book The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson and from the video curriculum of the same name. All other resources including the small group questions, introductions, and between-sessions materials have been written by Kevin and Sherry Harney in collaboration with Mark Batterson.
In this ebook edition, please use your devices note-taking function to record your thoughts wherever you see the bracketed instructions [Your Notes] or [Your Response]. Use your devices highlighting function whenever you are asked to checkmark, circle, underline, or otherwise indicate your answer(s).
God loves to make promises. He invites us to draw a circle around those promises and pray until we see them become a reality. God is inviting you and me into the adventure of seeing His dreams come true in this world. This happens as we make the decision to become circle makers.
People today love extreme sports!
We live in a world where the boundaries of human ability and capacity continue to be pressed and stretched. People compete in Ironman Triathlons where they swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles, and then run a full marathon of 26.2 miles.
Freestyle motorcycle riders used to dream of doing a backflip and landing it. Few dared even try it. That move is now commonplace riders are expected to do it. So, in 2006, a rider named Travis Pastrana attempted and landed a double backflip on a motorcycle in the X Games. No doubt, someone out there today is trying to figure out how they will land a triple backflip on a motorcycle.
Extreme sports like ice climbing, wingsuit base jumping, kayak skydiving, snocross, and a myriad of other surprising options are cropping up as people look for a new rush of adrenaline and a greater challenge.
Something in the human spirit pushes us to climb higher, drive faster, and push the boundaries. Into this world of risk-taking adventurers God whispers an invitation, Try drawing a prayer circle! Into the lives of Christians who have become bored with the same old religious practices and routine spiritual lives, the Spirit of God says, Take a risk, draw a circle, and engage your faith at a whole new level. For believers who love God with a passion, but have slipped into a spiritual rut, it is time to enter a whole new level of extreme faith it is time to become a circle maker!
At the end of the day, and the end of your life, you will look back and discover that one of the most extreme things you could ever do is draw a circle.
The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect and they intersect when we draw a circle around the impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene.
Tell about a time you did something risky or extreme. What moved you to do something adventurous like this?
[Your Response]
Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.
As you watch the video teaching segment for session one, use the following outline to record thoughts and reflections that stand out to you.
Drawing a prayer circle around Capitol Hill
[Your Notes]
The Legend of Honi the Circle Maker
[Your Notes]
The Jericho miracle
[Your Notes]
Identifying your Jericho
[Your Notes]
Wayne and Dianes circle makers story
[Your Notes]
Know what to circle
[Your Notes]
Learning from Daniel: finding a time and place
[Your Notes]
The 21-day challenge
[Your Notes]
Drawing prayer circles starts with discerning what God wants, what God wills. And until His sovereign will becomes your sanctified wish, your prayer life will be unplugged from its power supply.
1. Mark shares his story of feeling under qualified and overwhelmed when he started National Community Church. Tell about a time you faced a real-life situation and you felt under qualified and overwhelmed.
[Your Response]
When we feel under qualified and overwhelmed, we might be exactly where God wants us. These moments force us to pray like everything depends on God. They also drive us to our knees. In times like this we move to a place of raw dependence on God and raw dependence is the raw material out of which God performs His greatest miracles
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