Hallowed be Your Name

Introduction

• Prayer does not come naturally to us.
• True prayer is God-centered
• The Lord's Prayer teaches us to ask for things that are consistent with God's Word & will

A REVERENT PETITION
What does it mean to “hallow” God's “name”? Hagias means Holy, Hagios is a saint, and hagiazo means to make holy or sanctify. “Let be sanctified your name.”

To hallow God's name means to treat it as holy, to regard everything by which God makes Himself known as holy.

God's name is the essence of His divine being – all that He is and all that He does. (Ps. 7:17)

‘Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name.' Psa 96:8

A FOUNDATIONAL PETITION

Orients us to ____________________: Orients us to the reality of our existence. We are confessing that God exists and that He is our gracious creator and redeemer who cares for us. (Heb. 11:6; Psalm 19)
Protects us against ____________________ prayers:

Protects us against _____________________ by calling us to an accurate understanding of who God is.

“The man who brings into his concept of God ideas that have no place there takes the name of the Lord in vain.” Origen

Gives us proper perspective on __________________. John 12:27-28
A CHALLENGING PETITION
Challenges us to conform to _______________ ____________________. (1 Pet.3:15)

Challenges us in our ____________________.