A Praying Life by Paul Miller

Week 6: Chapters 7–8 — Prayer Cards and Praying Without Ceasing

Read Chapters 7–8 of A Praying Life ("Using Prayer Cards" and "Keeping Track: How to Use a Prayer Journal").

Miller moves in these chapters toward practical tools — not as spiritual superpowers but as simple aids for a weak and distracted mind. This week is about building sustainable structure.

Discussion Questions

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1.Miller's prayer card system is deliberately simple — physical cards with specific people and situations written on them. What is your immediate reaction to this idea? Freeing, tedious, helpful, or something else?

2.He argues that writing prayers down helps us pray with specificity rather than vagueness, and specificity leads to seeing answers. Think of a prayer you have prayed vaguely for years. What would it look like to make it specific?

3.Miller shows that keeping a prayer journal allows us to track both our prayers and God's answers — and that looking back often reveals patterns we would otherwise miss. Have you ever done this? What did you discover (or what do you think you might discover)?

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