75 Questions to Ask When Your Faith Feels Complicated or Far Away

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75 Questions to Ask When Your Faith Feels Complicated or Far Away

Table of Contents

When Faith Feels Complicated

25 Questions to Ask Yourself (Self-Reflection)

25 Questions to Bring to God (In Prayer)

25 Questions to Ask a Trusted Friend or Mentor

How to Find People Who'll Actually Sit With These Questions

FAQs

When Faith Feels Complicated

There's a version of Christianity that has an answer ready for every question. And if you've been in church long enough, you've probably noticed that those ready answers sometimes arrive before you've had a chance to fully feel the question. Doubt gets spiritually bypassed. Grief gets rushed into "but God is good." Fear gets Bible-versed before it's been held.

This article isn't that.

This article is for the Christians who are in a season of dryness, distance, or honest confusion. The ones who used to feel God clearly and now feel mostly static. The ones who love Jesus but have a question they've been afraid to ask out loud. The ones who are still showing up but wondering how much longer they can show up without something real happening.

Questions aren't the enemy of faith. They're often the engine of it.

25 Questions to Ask Yourself (Self-Reflection)

When did my faith last feel alive and what was different about that season?
What am I afraid of finding if I'm fully honest with God right now?
Is there something I've been avoiding dealing with that might be why God feels distant?
What do I actually believe right now not what I should believe, but what I do?
Is my faith currently lived or performed?
What's the last thing I prayed that genuinely cost me something?
Am I in community real community where I can say the honest thing?
What do I believe about God's goodness right now and what would I need to believe to feel more at peace?
Is there someone I haven't forgiven that might be creating distance in my spiritual life?
What am I currently filling the God-shaped space with?
What does rest look like in my life right now am I too exhausted to hear?
What's the most honest thing I could say to God right now if I wasn't trying to be reverent?
Is my current season genuinely hard, or have I drifted?
What do I think God thinks of me right now and is that based on truth?
What would I need from God right now to feel like He's there?
What's a testimony from my past that I've forgotten evidence that God has shown up before?
Am I angry at God for something I haven't admitted?
What would my faith look like if I stopped performing it for anyone?
What's one small thing I could do today to move toward God rather than away?
Who knows I'm in this season and have I let them?
What do I want from God right now more than anything?
Am I waiting for an emotional experience, or am I willing to trust when I can't feel?
What would I say to a friend going through exactly what I'm going through right now?
What's a lie about God or myself that might be fueling this distance?
What would it feel like to believe God is still working even when I can't see it?

25 Questions to Bring to God (In Prayer)

God, where are you in this season?
What are you trying to say to me through the silence?
What do you want me to let go of that I keep picking back up?
Is there something I'm believing about you that's not true?
What part of myself am I hiding from you and can I try to stop?
What do you want for me right now that I'm not wanting for myself?
Who do you want to put in my life right now to help me carry this?
What does healing look like for me right now and am I willing to receive it?
What's the next step you want me to take even if I can't see the full staircase?
Help me believe you are good even when I'm not sure I do right now.
What do you want me to know about who I am to you in this season?
Is there someone I need to go to confess to, apologize to, or ask for help?
What are you redeeming in me right now that I can't see yet?
How do you want me to pray differently than I have been?
What would it mean to trust you with the thing I'm most afraid of right now?
Are you present even when I can't feel you? Help me believe that.
What is the thing I most need right now that I haven't been willing to ask you for?
How do you see this season differently than I do?
What would it mean to bring you my anger, confusion, and grief and leave them there?
What would change in my life if I actually believed I was fully loved by you right now?
How can I serve someone else today even when I have nothing left?
Is there a next step in my faith you've been waiting for me to take?
What's one thing from Scripture you want me to hold onto right now?
Who in my life needs me to show up for them even while I'm in a hard season?
Help me believe that this season isn't the end of the story.

25 Questions to Ask a Trusted Friend or Mentor

Have you ever felt what I'm feeling right now and what did you do with it?
What do you see in me right now that I might not be able to see in myself?
Can I be honest with you about where I actually am spiritually without you trying to fix it?
What's helped you most in a dry season?
Will you pray for me specifically, for this specific thing?
What do you think God might be doing in my life right now that I'm missing?
What do you see as my gifts and am I living inside them?
Have you noticed anything in me lately that concerns you?
What do you wish someone had told you in a season like mine?
Can you tell me something true about who God is right now that you actually believe and have seen?
What's one concrete thing you could do with me or for me this month?
Will you check in with me in a week not to see if I'm better, but just to see how I am?
What does your faith look like when it's not performing and can I see that version of you?
What testimony from your life do I most need to hear right now?
Can we just be honest with each other for once about where we both actually are?
What do you think I'm believing about God right now that might not be true?
Is there something between us that might be making it harder for me to receive support from you?
What do you appreciate about my faith even in this season?
What would you be praying for me if you were praying for me tonight?
Can we pray right now not a polished prayer, just an honest one?
What do you think my next step should be and why?
What has God taught you through a hard season that you carry with you now?
Who else in our community might be feeling what I'm feeling and should we reach out to them?
What do you think I'm strong enough to handle right now that I don't think I am?
Will you sit with me in this not to fix it, just to be here?

How to Find People Who'll Actually Sit With These Questions

The hardest part of a dry season isn't the dryness itself. It's the isolation the sense that everyone else's faith is fine and yours is the one that's broken.

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