A Praying Life by Paul Miller

Week 14: Review & Reflection — Looking Back Across the Whole Book

No new reading this week. Review your notes, journal entries, and prayer cards from the entire study.

This final week is a gift — a chance to look back over the whole journey, name what God has been doing, and commit to what comes next.

Discussion Questions

8 questions

1.Which chapter or section of A Praying Life was most significant for you — the one where something genuinely shifted? What was it about that material that broke through?

2.At the beginning of this study, how would you have described your prayer life? How would you describe it now? What has changed — even slightly?

3.Miller's central diagnosis is that prayerlessness is rooted in unbelief — we don't actually believe God is present, good, and responsive. Has that diagnosis proven accurate in your case? Where has your unbelief been most exposed during this study?

4.What is one concrete, specific practice you are taking away from this study — something you will actually do differently in your prayer life starting this week? Be as specific as possible.

5.Miller uses the image of a child running to a good Father throughout the book. As you look back across everything you have read and discussed, does that image feel more accessible to you than it did at the beginning? What has helped it become more real?

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Closing Prayer

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Lord, we have been studying prayer — but more than that, we have been meeting you. You have been patient with our slowness, honest with us about ourselves, and generous in what you have given us to see. We do not leave this study with everything figured out. We leave it more aware of our need and more convinced of your goodness. That is enough. Carry us forward. Make us people who pray — not because we are good at it, but because we cannot imagine living without you. In the name of Jesus, who ever lives to intercede for us. Amen.

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