Fervent by Priscilla Shirer
Week 11: Strategy 10 — Your Hurts
Read Strategy 10 of Fervent by Priscilla Shirer. Key Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 1:3-4; Psalm 147:3.
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The enemy would love for your wounds to become walls — for the places where you have been hurt to become the places where you are forever closed off to God, to others, and to healing. Priscilla calls us to bring our hurts into prayer rather than building defenses around them.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Priscilla names hurt as one of the enemy's most powerful strategies — not primarily because pain itself defeats us, but because of what we do with pain: we harden, withdraw, become cynical, or stop trusting. Which of those responses is most characteristic of you when you are hurt?
2.2 Corinthians 1:3-4 describes God as the "Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction." How does the idea that your wounds can become ministry reframe the way you think about the suffering you have experienced?
3.Priscilla addresses the hard question of why God allowed certain painful things to happen. How does she navigate that tension — honoring real pain without blaming God or surrendering to bitterness?
a.Is there a wound in your life that you are currently using as evidence that God is not good or cannot be trusted?
b.What would it take to bring that specific wound to God in honest prayer rather than silent accusation?
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