“… hallowed be your name” Matt. 6:9
Jesus, in the “Lord’s prayer,” gave his disciples a pattern for daily fellowship with God in prayer.
This pattern, as I understand it, includes five types of prayer:
1) Worship and Praise
2) Submission to God and His will
3) Petition, i.e. requests for our daily needs
4) Repentance and forgiveness
5) Prayer for spiritual victory.
Notice that Daily Prayer begins with a Godward focus. Even though He is my loving Father, even though he cares about meeting my needs – my initial focus is not be on me, but Him.
We begin our daily prayer, Jesus teaches us, by focusing on God’s interests. What God is most concerned about is that He receives glory from his creation, i.e. that His name be hallowed. Hallowed means to be regarded as special, separate from all else, exalted. Are you praying for this daily?
We begin our time of daily fellowship with God in prayer by “Hallowing His name” ourselves. We tell Him how great, awesome and majestic He is. We praise Him for who He is and for what he has done. Then we pray that others would come to see Him for who He really is; that others would praise and worship Him too.
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