Sermon Notes – 29th May 2011
Published on Jun 8th, 2011 |
SERMON DISCUSSION NOTES FOR SUNDAY 29 MAY 2011
Praying the right sort of prayer for healing
- Share any experiences of remarkable healing related to specific prayer, and any experiences where there has been committed, faithful prayer that has not resulted in the outcome sought. What are your reflections on this?
- Share any longings you have had that have not been satisfied, and say if you can identify a ‘higher purpose’.
- Read James 5. 13 – 20, and discuss what it has to tell us about prayer for healing.
- Read both the prayer of Jesus (Matthew 6. 9 – 13) and the prayer of Jabez (1 Chronicles 4. 10, 11). Look at the verses on either side to recognize the context. The following can be aspects of prayer: Praise, penitence, thanksgiving, petition, intercession. Identify in the 2 prayers what you see of any of these.
- ‘There are, no doubt, passages in the New Testament which may seem at first sight to promise an invariable granting of our prayers. But that cannot be what they really mean. For in the very heart of the story we meet a glaring instance to the contrary. In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.’ – C.S. Lewis