Living a Prayerful Life with Megan Hill

Written By Megan Hill
 

Do you ever find yourself subconsciously crying out to God in a desperate moment? Maybe it's a "Lord, help me" prayer in a time of need, or a "Jesus, come quickly" when your heart is heavy. Sometimes life brings us to the end of ourselves in a way that reminds our hearts to call out to God. As we reach the end of ourselves we realize, to whom else can we go (John 6:68)? He is the One who is sovereign, able, good, and kind. In this week's conversation with Megan Hill, Hunter and Megan talk about how vital prayer is to the life of the Christian.

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

  1. You've done so much work revolving around the church and prayer. What piqued your interest in those two topics?

  2. I love the story you came across in your research that led you to write Fritz and the Midnight Meetup. Can you share a little about it?

  3. How did this precious group of kids impact your own prayer life? Why do you think it's a particularly important message for children?

  4. I'm compelled by the thought of children in difficult circumstances drawing near to God through prayer. How has the Lord used prayer to help you navigate hard things?

  5. I find that so often my own prayer life is impacted by the amount of distractions I'm navigating. What has it looked like for you to incorporate prayer in your life, even with all of the distractions?

  6. How has the Lord used prayer to draw you toward other believers? 

  7. How have you seen that impact your relationships within the local church?

  8. Have you uncovered any other compelling accounts of prayer that we might be inspired by?

  9. Who has impacted the way you cry out to God in prayer?

 

NOTES & QUOTES

“Do I have that spirit of urgency about prayer? Like this is the thing I want to do at the end of the day or the beginning of the day or with my friends? Is it the thing that I think is really worth doing?”

“We read stories of great men and women of prayer and we think, ‘Those must be especially holy people or something.’ But just remember, no, the Lord uses even ordinary kids that nobody even remembers their names to do really great things. And so I could pray too and the Lord would use that for his purposes.”

“One of the great things that the Lord often does—which is not pleasant at the time, but that he often uses to draw us to prayer—is bringing us to an end of ourselves.”

“These things were bringing them to an end of themselves so that then they would go, ‘What can we do? I know, let's pray. Let's ask God to help us.’”

“As I kept praying with these people, the Lord knit our hearts together.”

“I might be a college student and you might be a 55-year-old dairy farmer, and yet what do we need? Well, we need the Lord to forgive our sins and we need the Lord to provide our daily bread and we have the same anxieties about what tomorrow will bring that we need to cast on the Lord and we need the Lord to save the unconverted people in our lives and we need the Lord to help us have hearts that aren't so selfish… The same things that I pray for were the things that they were praying for, and it really knit me together with them as I realized that the differences in our lives are very superficial, but our real needs were the same.”

“We know that in the church we're meant to pray for one another, and I think it's a great practice to take your church directory and pray through the people in the church.”

“There's not one missionary story that we went through where prayer didn't play a super significant role.”

“It just seems like time and time again the work of missions is upheld by prayer and is propelled forward by prayer.”

“Jesus says to pray to the Lord of the harvest to thrust out laborers into the harvest field. And I think we never have more confidence than when we're praying for the work of missions, for people to be saved and the church to be built and Christ to be exalted.”

“Prayer has a huge part to play in the advance of God's kingdom.”

“Prayer is the breath of the Christian.” (loosely quoted from a Scottish Moravian hymn by James Montgomery: “Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, the Christian's native air”)

“We can learn so much about prayer from our children.”

 
 
 

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

  1. How has the Lord used prayer to help you navigate hard things?

  2. What has it looked like (or what might it look like) for you to incorporate prayer into your daily rhythm, even with all of the distractions of life?

  3. Has the Lord used prayer to draw you toward other believers? How so?

  4. What might you bring to the Lord in prayer today?

  5. What might you do or implement based on what you learned in this week’s episode?

 

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Megan Hill

Megan Hill lives in Massachusetts in a hundred-year-old house with her husband and four children. She likes cozy fires, warm cookies, and soft blankets. When she was a little girl, she asked her dad if she could go with him to the church prayer meeting, and she's been going ever since. While her children are at school, she writes books for adults and kids, and she serves as the managing editor for The Gospel Coalition. Her newest book is called Fritz and the Midnight Meetup. She is also the author of several other books.

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