CHAPTER ONE
1. Why is prayer less attractive than many other types of ministry?
2. How are logic and zeal meaningless apart from ‘‘unction’’?
3. In what way is prayer your primary means of obtaining resources to share God’s truth?
CHAPTER TWO
4. Is it true that ‘‘Satan has little cause to fear most preaching’’? Why or why not?
5. How does prayer changes what effort and words cannot?
6. What percentage of your prayer is done privately?
CHAPTER THREE
7. How many people do you know that are ‘‘so heavenly that they are of no earthly good,’’ and how many who are ‘‘so earthly they are of no heavenly good’’? Based on your experience, which represents real trouble for the Church?
8. What are the problems with the idea of being content with having been saved and sanctified?
9. Are you willing to endure life-altering agony and suffering to receive God’s vision and passion?
CHAPTER FOUR
10. Is it possible to have passion without prayer?
11. What must we be willing to give up in order to obtain the mind of Christ?
12. Would you prefer God to have partnership with you or to have ownership of you?
CHAPTER FIVE
13. Why is it true that contemporary evangelists—that is, all present-day disciples of Christ—have the same ability to reach a dying world as did those followers of the 1st century?
14. What does the term ‘‘useful brokenness’’ mean to you? Does it make sense—or do you see the two terms as mutually exclusive? Can you justify your answer when you hold it up to your specific life situations/choices?
15. What walls and dams are you prepared to open so that the waters of healing and growth might flow once again?
CHAPTER SIX
16. What things would change immediately in our world if the Church lived constantly ‘‘in the light of the judgment seat’’?
17. With today’s push toward ‘‘tolerance’’ and ‘‘pluralism’’ in mind, can we still teach that a person is only acceptable to God through Jesus Christ? How will your answer affect your life?
18. What will you do if you are rejected or slandered because of your stand for truth?
CHAPTER SEVEN
19. How do humility and confession relate to Spirit anointing?
20. Consider Paul before Damascus—then consider him afterward, turning the world upside-down. What do you think he must have been willing to endure in the wilderness of Arabia?
21. Is it ever right to turn down a preaching opportunity because of issues related to money?
CHAPTER EIGHT
22. How are doubt and unbelief similar or different? In what ways can doubt damage faith?
23. Why is saying ‘‘Lord, You can do this’’ not an example of faith?
24. What parts of ‘‘self’’ do you recognize as hindering your union with Christ?
CHAPTER NINE
25. What would it take for modern-day prophets of God to be considered ‘‘mad’’ and ‘‘insane’’ by the world?
26. Is this ‘‘insane boldness’’ reserved for those with the gift of prophecy? Why or why not?
27. Are you willing to proclaim the truth even at the cost of your own life?
CHAPTER TEN
28. How can men be made of steel and yet be flexible enough for God to have His way?
29. Why is prayer a weapon rather than a defence?
30. Would Satan tremble if he considered your prayer life?
CHAPTER ELEVEN
31. How does sin lobotomize people’s minds and hearts?
32. What is the difference between joy and ‘‘silliness’’?
33. At what times in your daily life is your focus more on the things of this world than on eternity?
CHAPTER TWELVE
34. What is the problem with requesting the coming of the Holy Spirit while questioning His gifts?
35. Why is the Church in worse shape than the world?
36. What would you change immediately if you had six months to live?
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
37. What is the long-term difference between being alone and being lonely? Which of the two will remain, and which need not?
38. Why are we often more willing to pray for and contribute to people around the world than to help the people across the street?
39. If someone came to you and said, ‘‘I want to repent but I don’t know how,’’ what would you tell him/her?
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
40. How would the world today respond to the God-breathed preaching of Paul?
41. What decisions did Paul have to make in order that He might be fully broken for the glory of God?
42. What decisions are you willing to make so that you might be of service?
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
43. What marks people who are ‘‘branded by devotion’’?
44. What was Paul’s method for dealing with humiliation and pain?
45. To you, who are ‘‘the lost, the last, and the least’’? What are you willing to sacrifice to reach them with Christ’s love?
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
46. Is it possible to be too busy to pray? If so, is it possible to be praying too much to be busy?
47. Does our spiritual childlessness come more from sterility or from lack of union with God? Or both?
48. What limits do you place on how long you fervently pray for something that remains unfulfilled?
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
49. Who today could rightly call themselves ‘‘the filth of the world’’?
50. Is it true that if the world affirms or accepts us, it is proof we are not preaching the truth?
51. In what areas of life are you still in harmony with the world?
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
52. What things stain the Church today and keep it from approaching God with a pure heart and clean hands?
53. In the realm of prayer, are we most concerned with the changing of God, the changing of circumstances, the changing of others, or the changing of ourselves?
54. If the final judgment were today, would you be confident in or ashamed of your prayer life?
CHAPTER NINETEEN
55. Have we, the Church, been so compromised that we can no longer recognize empty or counterfeit spirituality?
56. Are we insisting on remaining in the wilderness because the beauty and the challenge of Canaan are more than we wish to bear?
57. Do you proclaim peace and comfort when they are not present? Is it more important to you to be a peacemaker or a peacekeeper?
CHAPTER TWENTY
58. Is it possible for people today to have the same type of anointing as was given Paul?
59. How does the church live and minister today as though we believe everything the Bible says about eternity is true? In what ways do we fall short?
60. If you knew eternity was to face you in the next moment, what would you immediately change about your actions and interactions?