Lord's Day 47 Put God in the center of all your prayers and your whole life

Put God in the center of all your prayers and your whole life:

1. so pray that we may rightly know God
2. and pray that we may rightly confess God

Questions to think about during the sermon:
Introduction:

1. From where we look – where we see the sun come up every morning and go down every evening – it seems as if the sun goes around the world. What does that have to do with prayer?
   Point 1:
2. What does the catechism tell us about God’s qualities? So: if we notice God’s majesty or righteousness shining forth in an earthquake or a tsunami, why is that surprising?
3. What are God’s works? Does anything ever happen to us that is not a work of God?
4. When we pray, hallowed be Your Name, what are we confessing about ourselves? And what are we asking God to do to us?
   Point 2:
5. We confess that God’s amazing qualities shine forth in all His works. What does this say about us and about our lives?
6. Why must we pray that God’s name may be honoured and praised because of us? Is this a kind wish on our part?