Too Busy Not to Pray by Bill Hybels
Week 10: Chapter 9 — Writing It Down
Read Chapter 9 of Too Busy Not to Pray. Key passage: Habakkuk 2:2 ('Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets.').
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Hybels shares one of the most practical tools that transformed his own prayer life — a simple journal — and invites us to consider why writing our prayers changes everything.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Hybels credits keeping a prayer journal as one of the single most important turning points in his prayer life. What specifically does he say writing does that simply thinking or speaking prayers does not?
2.Have you ever kept a prayer journal, even briefly? If so, what was the experience like? If not, what has prevented you from trying?
3.Hybels talks about the power of reviewing old journal entries and seeing how God answered prayers over time — sometimes in the exact way you asked, sometimes in a completely unexpected way, sometimes with a 'no' that later made perfect sense. Why is that review so important for building faith?