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Q. What did you find most helpful, inspiring or challenging in what Pete Greig, Gemma Hunt and Helen Berhane shared?
Perseverance. Some prayers aren't answered yet. Whether they are being resisted by spiritual forces, stubborn people or God himself, don't give up praying. During these video sessions and small group discussions, the aim is to share together from personal experience and learn from one another, seeking God and asking how, together, we can learn and grow. An honest, soul-searching pursuit of biblical answers to one of Christianity's most challenging questions: What do you do when God meets your prayers with silence? My daughter recommended this book to me and I am so glad she did! This is the best book/study I have read on prayer. Pete Greig's experience with suffering and his sound theology opened my mind and heart to new ways of handling suffering, trials and , especially, unanswered prayers in the midst of those situations.
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Q. Pete says that “there’s so much faking it” at church. If you could ask God one totally honest question about something you find difficult in your life, what would it be? Leader’s note Q. What, practically, do you think is needed for persevering in faith and prayer through the ‘winter seasons’ of life? Some prayers aren’t answered because we just don’t believe they will be. However, faith grows as we get to know God.” If your group is more than 3 people, we would recommend splitting into smaller groups of 2 or 3 to give everyone an opportunity to share and pray for one another. Explain how much time you will have for prayer, and roughly how much time each person will have for sharing and praying. Ask one another
Where can I see God’s goodness at work in and through painful situations in my life? In what particular ways can I get better at trusting God when I don’t understand him?” Q. Do we as a community lean too hard on one side of this equation, either focusing so much on hope that we aren’t honest about pain, or focusing so much on pain that we fail to have hope? How can we hold both hope and pain together? These discussions are designed to last an hour (plus 30 minutes for the video) but we have deliberately given you more content and questions than you will be able to get through in this time. Just choose the parts that you feel will work best for your group and don’t worry if one or two questions sometimes take up the whole of the session. We recommend that you always make time for personal prayer ministry at the end. Next time, in our final session, we’ll be focusing on the hope of Easter Sunday and our final question: “When?” – “When will my prayers be answered?” Life is tough. Creation has not yet been fully liberated from bondage. Life is inevitably doing to be difficult at times.What an excellent, insightful book that challenged my thinking in many ways! I will definitely be getting a hard copy of this! Q. Is it possible for a tragedy not to be God’s ‘fault’? Do you agree with Pete Greig’s statement that we tend to blame God for things that are Satan’s doing? Greig faces the reality of the suffering that is endured when desperate prayers seem to go unanswered, but his essential message is nevertheless one of hope and confidence in God. He calls us to a deeper understanding of a God of love who always works for the best of those who love him, and acceptance that God is at work in the deepest trials. He uses them to create within those who endure them a holy sweetness and a depth of unshakeable faith that just cannot be produced any other way. One of many lovely stories is of an elderly friend who has suffered for 72 years with a debilitating illness. She testifies that her need has drawn her ever closer to the Lord, discovering his strength in her weakness, his presence in her pain, so much so that she can say that she feels almost sorry for those who sail through life without trouble but never discover the greatest gift of God’s strength. Wow! The framework of the book God’s will: In the book of Isaiah, God says: “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.” (Isaiah 55:8)
they tried to kill me; I don’t know how I survived. But I always say that the reason I survived is just to be a testimony for others.”- Helen Berhane Our unanswered prayers may be our real ministry of our lives. They are being stored up to be answered on that final day. Few experiences in life are as disconcerting as seasons in which God is silent. This may be a current reality for some members of your group. Therefore, it’s important to dignify their questions in this session without trying to ‘solve’ them.Life's great trials either make you bitter or better, never unchanged. Engage the silence and redeem your disappointments to be a creative force for God. How: Some prayers (even spiritual sounding ones) aren’t answered because they are, in fact, selfishly motivated.” Take time to pause and reflect on The Isenheim Altarpiece, by Matthias Grünewald, which Pete Greig talked about in the session. (available online HERE ) Books People who are experiencing God’s silence can still know his presence, so make sure you leave plenty of time for prayer. And remember that one of the main manifestations of God’s presence at such times is the loving presence of God’s people.
Speaking of a pastor friend he looked to for help in handling the potential reality of death to his wife he says: Next week’s session will explore Maundy Thursday and the most basic heart questions we all ask when we suffer: “How am I going to get through this?” Today we’ve tried to understand better the things we can, and to trust better when we can’t understand. Let’s finish now with a prayer of relinquishment written by George Macdonald. It’s not an easy prayer but you may like to open your hands as a sign of surrender. It became clear that although he had a spectacular vision for the next 30 or so years of life on Earth, he had no vision whatsoever for eternity. I suspect that although he was older than me, he had simply not yet been forced to stare for himself into the abyss, wondering, What's next?
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my relationships suffer—especially my relationship with You. I put on the breastplate of righteousness.
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