Reflection Questions

Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To

(Ch 5) Am I a Terrible Person? God, Forgive Me

1. What role does confession play in helping us overcome sin and experiencing forgiveness?

2. Is there someone in your life you need to forgive?· What’s preventing you?

3. When have you forgiven someone and experienced healing/peace?

4. Is there a sin you thought you would never overcome that is now hardly a struggle at all?· How did you overcome it?· For what sin or area of your life do you need to seek forgiveness and freedom?

5. Many of the saints recommended doing a daily examination of conscience and an act of contrition each night.· How could this practice help you?

(Ch 6) This Stress Is Killing Me! God, Give Me Peace

1. How are order and peace related?· ·Is it possible to have peace amidst disorder?· Do you feel like your life is in order?· Peaceful?· What might help?

2. How is peace related to the kind of life you are living?· Was there a time in your life when you didn’t feel peace because God was calling you to change?

3. Have you ever done something God was calling you to do and then experienced His peace?· What was it?

4. Is there something you know you need to change in order to experience peace?

5. The book defines peace as “union with God.”· Do you really believe that if you are united to God you will be at peace or does this idea scare you?· In what other ways do you seek peace? (financial security, approval of others, accomplishments, success, beauty, sensual pleasure, etc.)

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