We often pray for big miracles while overlooking the countless ways God is already at work around us.
In this replay episode of Hope Talks, we're revisiting an encouraging conversation with bestselling author and pastor Mark Batterson about learning to see God with fresh eyes.
Mark shares the remarkable story of being miraculously healed after living with severe asthma for 40 years, along with the lessons that experience taught him about persistent prayer, God's faithfulness, and trusting Him even when the answer doesn't come right away.
Drawing from his book A Million Little Miracles, Mark explores what it means to believe that God is "bigger than big, closer than close, and gooder than good." Together, we talk about breaking out of the boxes we place around God, cultivating wonder as an act of worship, practicing gratitude, and discovering that God's fingerprints are often found in the ordinary moments we so often overlook.
If you've been wondering where God is, struggling to keep praying, or longing to experience a deeper awareness of His presence, this conversation will encourage you to slow down, look closer, and rediscover the God who has been with you all along.
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Resources from Mark Batterson
Learn more about Mark Batterson: https://www.markbatterson.com/
Get a copy of Mark’s book, A Million Little Miracles: https://tinyurl.com/4am7zrt2
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Hope for the Heart resources
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Bible verses mentioned in this episode
Psalm 8:5 – “You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.”
Psalm 56:8 – “You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.”
Isaiah 49:16 – “See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.”
Zechariah 4:10 – “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin”
Romans 5:7-8 – “Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
2 Corinthians 5:21 – “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
Ephesians 3:20 – “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,”
Revelation 21:4 – “He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”