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Mark Batterson

Mark Batterson

Pastor

Jun 2, 2026

16:21
Wow.
16:21
And all the young kids were, like, all tuckered out, tired.
16:24
My mom was still on the dance floor.
16:27
And I said, "Mom, like, how are you doing this?" Evalese, in the most kinda straight-faced, nonplussed voice, she said, "I stretch every day." That was her answer, that she stretches every day.
16:41
So there, there's a health tip.
16:42
But I share that for a reason.
16:44
I wanna stretch our faith right now, because if you had said 26 years ago you would own half a dozen properties on a 4.7-mile prayer walk that I felt led to pray around Capitol Hill, and that we would own six properties worth $83 million and be debt-free, I woulda called you crazy.
19:51
What would you say to them?
24:30
So talk about how you wrestled that through with God.
24:34
Yeah, well, I felt called to write at 22, but I didn't write a book until 35.
24:41
And I'll be honest, like around year 10, 11, I despise my birthday, Susie, because it felt like an annual reminder of a dream deferred.
24:53
But what I did do was I not only read 3000 books before I wrote one, I really reverse engineered them.
25:03
And so, you know, you need to pray like it depends on God, but you also need to work like it depends on you.
25:10
And so a lot of that really is just cultivating good habits.
25:16
The way I might say it is routine is the key to spiritual growth.

7 MINS LATER

31:58
Let's do it.
26:23
I mean, even science backs it up.
26:25
Yeah, 100%.
26:27
Two simple thoughts, Susie.
26:29
Everything is impossible until it isn't.
26:32
And so it's not going to happen before breakfast.
26:36
But what I love about that Lewis Carroll classic is you know, if, if you do it for 30 minutes a day, you can come become pretty good at envisioning the impossible.
26:47
And I would just remind us that Jesus said, all things are impossible.

7 MINS LATER

33:23
Like, did these all, did you start with all of these, this like one big vision or did you just have a next vision and a next vision for each of these different phases of, of your dream come true?

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