Pray through these passages with your group and think about how great of a God we serve and are able to pray to. How will you let His character shape your prayers more than your immediate needs do? Talk with your group about how you can pray with the holiness of God in mind this week. What did you pray for most? Has our study on prayer helped you? Think about the phrase, “Hallowed be Thy Name.” What does that mean? What does it teach you about the character and nature of God? How does God’s nature impact your prayers? How have you seen God’s discipline in your life? Do you pray differently because of it? God promises that He disciplines those He loves. Does this help you understand prayer better? Do you think this will help you pray more obediently and effectively?ĭoes being able to call God “Father” help you in your prayers? How does being able to call God “Our Father” help you understand your place on God’s family? How being part of a community of believers impact your prayers? What do you think of what Jesus said about praying in secret and not for show/performance. How do you fight distraction in prayer? Talk through some ways to remain focused on God while you pray. Why do you think prayer can be like that? How do you overcome difficulty in prayer? That to be like His name is true way to commend it.Do you ever feel like your prayers are stuck and don’t lead anywhere? How so? The ever-present remembrance, that the name of God is blasphemed or hallowed, that God is glorified or disgraced, by us. Seeking for ourselves that we may be the means of others doing so. Desiring for world most of all that it may hallow the Name. It means that we should recognize God’s name is sanctified, set apart, and marked as unordinary. That word hallowed means ‘to honor and treat as holy.’. To what practical life this prayer binds us.įollowing in our estimates, aims, and practice the sequence which it prescribes. When Jesus taught His disciples to pray he taught them to say, Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name (MAT 6:9). 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God,' is a maxim for social reformation as well as for individual life. (c) That plans for the reformation of men should begin with the exterior, leaving theological subtleties to themselves.
(b) That accurate knowledge of God and His will matters comparatively little if we have devout emotions and experiences. (a) That religion is chiefly to give us forgiveness. This sequence of petitions corrects many errors into which we are apt to fall. That knowledge is the guide of emotions and of practical life, as set forth here in the order of petitions. That the Inward comes before the Outward. That the most important of all questions is, How does a man think of God? That the knowledge will affect their whole scheme of thought and life. That true knowledge of God is the deepest and fundamental necessity for all men. The place of this petition in the prayer is explained by considerations which suggest very important thoughts for ourselves and all men. Then in regard to God, we first ask not that His law may be kept, but that His nature may be known. And though the two things coincide, which of them is foremost in our minds makes an infinite difference. It is God's glory even more than men's knowledge of Him that the petition contemplates. We should begin not with ourselves, but with God not with temporal wants, not even with our own spiritual ones. Singular, that so remote a petition should stand at beginning. 'I have declared Thy name, and will declare it.' I’m calling it Lord, Teach Us to Pray, because that was the request of the disciples to Jesus, as you heard in the reading from Luke 11.
HALLOWED BE THY NAME SERMON SERIES
His finished work does not render this prayer unnecessary. Hallowed Be Thy Name (The Lord’s Prayer) For our midweek Lenten services this year we’re doing a sermon series on the Lord’s Prayer.
That Christ is the great means of His hallowing His Name. On the conviction that men cannot attain it for themselves. On the fact that men need the knowledge of the Name. In other words, the petition rests on the assurance of God's fatherly love, which cannot but will that His children should know their Father as He is. On the confidence that God wills that His Name should be known. Hallowed by human adoration and appropriate sentiments. The prayer asks that God would so act as to show the holiness of His character, and that men, one and all, may see the holiness of His character.
The second of these is God's hallowing of His Name. Hallowed means to make holy or to show as holy or to regard as holy. After this manner therefore pray you: Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name.
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