Draw the Circle by Mark Batterson

Week 7: Review & Reflection — A Lifetime of Watching God Work

Review your prayer journal, personal notes, and any passages or stories from Draw the Circle that most impacted you across the 40 days.

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Looking back is not the same as looking backward — revisiting what God has done during these 40 days is itself an act of faith that fuels the prayer life ahead.

Discussion Questions

8 questions

1.Which week or theme from Draw the Circle — Pray Through, Think Long, Pray Hard, Pray Circles Around Your Family, or Pray the Word — had the most impact on you, and why?

2.Look back at the specific, bold prayer you wrote down in Week 1. Has anything changed — in your circumstances, in your faith, or in the prayer itself — over the course of these weeks?

3.Batterson's central image is drawing a circle — a posture of persistence, faith, and holy stubbornness before God. How has your understanding or practice of that posture changed since you began?

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