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

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.

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Published Dec 24, 2011

64 pages

Average rating: 7.5

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postcoffeepoop
Oct 21, 2025
2/10 stars
What a harmful book. I don't think I've read a book that takes prayer so lightly and talks about it so flippantly. He turns prayer into a silly, embarrassing hazing of sorts. He claims in the book that prayer is not a way for God to grant your wishes and then he continues to tell you "rub the lamp just so and God will appear!"

He also says "if you want to keep growing spiritually, you need to keep ... [going] after dreams that are bigger than you are." What!!!??? What??? What!!! How unbiblical. I've never heard God, Jesus, Paul, any church history leader say this!

Anyway, don't pick this one up, or the expanded edition. Just read the Bible instead. That book will have better teacher than this one (obviously).

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