• Jesus on Prayer - Day 6

    <br />Hallowed be your Name

  • Matthew 6:9

    Pray then like this:

    "Our Father in heaven,

    hallowed by your name."

  • What do you think this first request is asking God to do?

  • Jesus on Prayer - Day 6

    <br />Hallowed be your Name

  • Hallow means to make holy. On the face of it, this request is strange. Why ask for God to make Himself holy? Isn’t He already perfectly holy?

  • Isaiah 6:3  "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!"

  • I think we are to understand this request as asking God to make Himself be regarded as holy. As John Piper puts it, ‘It means that we are praying that his name be set apart in people’s hearts and minds and lives as the infinitely great and beautiful and valuable reality that it is.’

  • This first petition shows the centrality God is to have in our lives. Jesus teaches us to begin our prayers with the request for God’s name to be hallowed, because He wants God’s glory to be our greatest desire and our chief concern.

  • Think about your prayers. Do they normally begin with a concern for God's glory? What are your prayers mainly concerned with?

  • Jesus on Prayer - Day 6

    <br />Hallowed be your Name

  • As we have already seen, the Lord’s Prayer is a model to shape our prayers, not merely a script. In the space below, write out a prayer to God expressing your desire for Him to be glorified.

  • Jesus on Prayer - Day 6

    <br />Hallowed be your Name

  • In this meditation we have seen that Jesus calls us first and foremost to pray for our Heavenly Father to be glorified.


    In the next meditation, we will look at the second petition of the Lord's Prayer.


    Until then may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 


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