Faith Seeds: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

1.     What is your approach to insurmountable odds? Give up? Push harder? Come at it sideways?

2.     How often do you attack a problem your way first and then ask for God’s help or do you go to Him first?

3.     How difficult or easy is it for you to cease striving when the cost is high?

Share: Has the Lord ever asked you to do something inexplicable? How did respond?

Faith Seeds: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

1.     How difficult is it for us to accept that the One who created all also wants to speak with each of us one-to-one?

2.     What do we lose when we resist His ‘ownership’?

3.     Why do we often build up our own defined worlds instead? Out of arrogance? Or fear? Or…..?

Share: How does God speak life and hope and vision through His creation to you?

Faith Seeds: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

1.     When the prophets spoke there was no confusion that the words were from God—whether or not the listeners chose to obey. Why do we manage to confuse ourselves and argue the legitimacy of His words to us personally today?

2.     Or if we do acknowledge the authenticity, we tangle ourselves up in application.

3.     We have no difficulty accepting our personal memories. Why can we not recognize God’s truth as truth?

Share: What timeless precept helps you remember to walk with God in faith?

Faith Seeds: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

1.     Whose everyday approval do we seek?

2.     What attitudes and actions do we pursue that daily conflict with our faith?

3.     God’s expectations seem beyond reach and yet He knows our very frame. How can that keep us from sabotage?

Share: How might we see daily life through His love instead of our failures?

Faith Seeds: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

1.     In what ways do we tend to measure success or failure apart from heart and character?

2.     How much emphasis do we place on care and compassion in our judgments?

3.     What values will last regardless of circumstances?

Share: How has a ‘temporary’ failure resulted in an eternal gift of grace for you?

Faith Seeds: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

   How does our culture encourage us to measure a good day, or a good life, by health and wealth and self-achievement?

   How much of God’s given gifts are included in a measured sense of peace or hope?

  What words do you use to describe “a good day” or “a bad day” to a friend?

Share: What helps you recognize and receive God’s peaceful hope regardless of circumstances?

Faith Seeds: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

1.     What is the difference between a man-made conviction of assurance and a God-centered one?

2.     How can circumstances make us the most vulnerable to doubts?

3.     When should we hesitate if we’re not sure we hear God’s voice?

Share: What word from the Lord has made it possible for you to take a greater step of faith without sight?