Lord's Day 45 We honour God by our prayers

We honour God by our prayers only when we believe that our prayers truly make things happen:

1. our prayers make things happen in our hearts and in our lives
2. our prayers make things happen in the church and in the world

Questions to think about during the sermon:
Introduction:
1 What do people who don’t really know God think about prayer?
Point 1:
2 What sort of trouble and sickness is James referring to chapter 5?
3 James 5:15 seems to connect sickness with sin. What is James talking about?
4 According to James 5 (and the catechism), what does God promise to give us when we pray to Him?
Point 2:
5 Why did God send the Messiah like he promised? What did the Israelites do to make it happen?
6 In Revelation 8 there is a half hour of silence in heaven. Why? What has to happen before the angels can
blow their trumpets and before Jesus Christ returns?