Be a Circle Maker: The Solution to 10,000 Problems

Mark Batterson

Dec 2011 · HarperChristian + ORM

About this ebook

According to Pastor Mark Batterson in his book, The Circle Maker, 'Drawing prayer circles around our dreams isn't just a mechanism whereby we accomplish great things for God. It's a mechanism whereby God accomplishes great things in us.' Do you ever sense that there's far more to prayer, and to God's vision for your life, than what you're experiencing? It's time you learned from the legend of Honi the Circle Maker---a man bold enough to draw a circle in the sand and not budge from inside it until God answered his prayers for his people. What impossibly big dream is God calling you to draw a prayer circle around? In this powerful booklet, excerpted from THE CIRCLE MAKER, Batterson helps you uncover your heart's deepest desires and God-given dreams and unleash them through the kind of audacious prayer that God delights to answer.

Ratings and reviews

I read this book many years ago with my old church. There are some decent truths/practices in it but there are way too many dangerous things in it as well. He says when you don't get your way it's not because you're not praying enough, but because you're not "circling" the things you're praying for. He says that there's power in drawing circles around written things that you are praying for or actually walking in circles around things you're praying for, and he makes inadequate/stretched biblical connections as justification. These more resemble witchcraft or cult-like rituals, not biblical spiritual disciplines.

This book is an exact copy of "The Circle Maker: praying circles around your biggest dreams and greatest fears". It also appears Mark Batterson has started selling a few more identical books. I'm not a fan of producing books like this.

This is one of the best books I'v read in a long time, Now it's time for me to become a circle maker in my own life. L.Smith

About the author

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.