Fervent by Priscilla Shirer

Week 3: Strategy 2 — Your Family

Read Strategy 2 of Fervent by Priscilla Shirer. Key Scriptures: Joshua 24:15; Psalm 127:1.

The family is not just a social unit — it is a spiritual target, and Priscilla makes the case that one praying woman standing in the gap for her household can change everything. Consider what it might mean for you to be that woman.

Discussion Questions

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1.Priscilla opens this strategy by describing the unique ferocity with which the enemy attacks families — because a healthy, God-honoring family is a powerful testimony and a launching pad for kingdom purposes. Does your family feel like a target right now? In what ways?

2.She calls the reader to become a "prayer warrior" for her household — praying specifically over each person's struggles, tendencies, and vulnerabilities rather than offering blanket prayers. What would a more specific prayer life for your family actually look like day to day?

3.Priscilla acknowledges that some readers come from broken, painful, or complicated family situations. How does she address that, and how did her acknowledgment affect how you read this chapter?

a.If your family situation is painful, what does it look like to pray *fervently* without denying the hurt?

b.What promise from God's Word can you stand on for your family right now?

4.Joshua 24:15 — "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" — is one of the anchor verses for this chapter. What bold declaration do you feel called to make over your own household, and what has kept you from making it?

5.Priscilla emphasizes that prayer for family is not passive — it is active spiritual battle. How does seeing yourself as a prayer warrior for your family change the way you respond to conflict, worry, or distance within your household?

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Closing Prayer

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Lord, we bring our families before You — the messy, complicated, beloved people You have placed in our lives. We confess that we have worried about them far more than we have prayed for them. We confess that we have tried to fix and control what only You can transform. Teach us to stand in the gap for each one — to pray with the specificity and the persistence that their lives demand. Protect our families from the enemy's strategies. Bind what needs to be bound, and loose what needs to be loosed. Let our households be marked by Your presence and Your glory. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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