Week 6: Chapter 5 — When Feelings Become Beliefs

1.Lysa identifies a subtle but serious shift that can happen in suffering: our feelings about God begin to replace what we actually know to be true about God. Can you identify a time when a feeling — "God has abandoned me," "God is punishing me," "God doesn't care" — functioned more like a belief than an emotion for you?

2.She walks through the way that unaddressed feelings can harden into "agreements" — statements we begin to live by without ever consciously choosing them. What are one or two agreements you may have made with a lie about God or about yourself during a painful season?

3.She references the practice of "taking every thought captive" from 2 Corinthians 10:5. What does that actually look like in daily life — especially when you are sleep-deprived, grieving, and emotionally raw? What makes it easier said than done?