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    Draw the Circle Bible Study Guide: Taking the 40 Day Prayer Challenge
    Draw the Circle Bible Study Guide: Taking the 40 Day Prayer Challenge
    Draw the Circle Bible Study Guide: Taking the 40 Day Prayer Challenge
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    Draw the Circle Bible Study Guide: Taking the 40 Day Prayer Challenge

    By Mark Batterson

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    Have your prayers become stagnant? Do you long to see God move in fresh ways? Are you ready to move to new places in your walk with God? If so, it's time to take the 40-day prayer challenge...

    In this five-session video study (DVD/digital video sold separately), bestselling author and pastor Mark Batterson reveals how taking up this prayer challenge will not only change the way you pray today but also dramatically impact the rest of your life. This study will help you:

    • Draw your prayer circle around the things in your life where you want to see God's work.
    • Form a broader prayer circle with other believers in Christ.
    • Challenge yourself to persistently depend on God.
    • Witness the miraculous results in your life, your church, your community, and your world that only God can bring.

    While this challenge won't be easy, and you will certainly experience setbacks along the way, as you pray through you can be assured that God will come through for you in new and exciting ways. Miracles that happen in your life decades from now will trace their origin back to this season of prayer, and breakthroughs that occur will become generational blessings that will live on long after your time on earth is over.

    Join with the more than half a million people who have already accepted this 40-day challenge to pray like never before.

    The Draw the Circle Study Guide includes video discussion questions, personal reflection questions, and daily devotional readings for each of the 40 days in the challenge.

    Sessions include:

    1. Drawing a Circle
    2. Dream Big
    3. Pray Hard
    4. Think Long
    5. The Ripple Effect

    Designed for use with the Draw the Circle Video Study (9780310094685) sold separately.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateJan 23, 2018
    ISBN9780310094678
    Draw the Circle Bible Study Guide: Taking the 40 Day Prayer Challenge
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    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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      Draw the Circle Bible Study Guide - Mark Batterson

      SESSION

      1

      Drawing a Circle

      I believe prayer is the difference between the best you can do and the best God can do. It’s the difference between letting things happen and making things happen. It’s the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you. Over the next forty days, we’re going to pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on us. And I believe that God is going to show up and show off His power, His grace, His goodness. Welcome to the forty-day prayer challenge.

      MARK BATTERSON

      First Thoughts

      Rodney Gypsy Smith was born on the outskirts of London in 1860. At the age of sixteen, he made a decision to follow Christ and taught himself to read and write so he could start preaching the message of Jesus. He would often sing hymns to the people he met, earning him the nickname of the singing gypsy boy.

      In time, Gypsy began serving in various missions organizations in England, including the Salvation Army. He crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean forty-five times, preaching the gospel to millions of people, and he never preached without someone surrendering their life to the lordship of Jesus Christ. It seemed as if everywhere he went, revival was right on his heels.

      At one point, Gypsy issued a challenge to those who likewise wanted to see revival. He said, Go home. Lock yourself in your room. Kneel down in the middle of the floor, and with a piece of chalk draw a circle around yourself. There, on your knees, pray fervently and brokenly that God would start a revival within that chalk circle.

      When was the last time you prayed that way?

      When you pray fervently and brokenly, the heavenly Father hears your heart. But I would add consistently to the equation. So, at the beginning of this forty-day journey, I want to challenge you to pick a time and pick a place to pray. If it helps, draw a circle somewhere. Or use a hula hoop. Or map out a prayer route that you walk each day. Or write your prayer requests in a journal and circle them. And as you pray fervently, brokenly, and consistently, I encourage you to pray with the authority that is yours as a child of God.

      As we will discuss this week, God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. Your prayer must meet a twofold litmus test—the will of God and the glory of God. But if they do, you will pray with the full authority of the King and His kingdom. It’s your positional authority in Christ that gives you a holy confidence as you pray.

      In Matthew 18:18, Jesus says, Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. The word bind has a legal connotation. It means to place a contract on something. This is precisely what happens when you pray in the will of God. You are exercising our authority as believers to stake claim to the promises of God—and those are the kind of prayers that honor

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