18 November 2020

Prayer 05 - Your name be honored as holy

 


A series of meditations on prayer

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The Previous Medetation: Prayer 04 - Our Father in heaven

The next Meditation: Prayer 06 - Your kingdom come


Psalm 8 v 1 HCSB

Yahweh, our Lord, how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth! You have covered the heavens with Your majesty.

 

In this first prayer, the focus of our prayer is still on God. In it we (who in Christ through the Holy Spirit received God as our heavenly Father) ask, that He enables us through His Spirit to honor and praise His Name.

 

With this we also ask that we can know God correctly. It means acknowledging that our heart and mind are too dark to know God by our own strength. Furthermore, we also acknowledge that it is the most important thing in life to know God correctly, as well as that we can know God only in Christ and through his Spirit.

 

This prayer is also a sigh to praise and glorify God in all His works and that He is holy. It is therefore to turn away our focus of self-glorification and confidence in our own strength so that we will only praise and honor God in all his works.

 

Furthermore, we also acknowledge that because God is our Father, his honor and glorification for us as his children is the most important thing on earth.

 

With this we also ask that God will give through his Spirit that, in our whole life, our thoughts, words and works, we will put his honor and holiness first.

 

The purpose of this prayer is to convey that we do not want to blaspheme or desecrate God's Name, but that we want to honor and glorify His Name in everything.

 

With this prayer for the sanctification of God's Name we pray that we will know Him in such a way that we will honor and praise Him in everything so that we can live worthy of His Name through the working of the Holy Spirit.

 

Amen







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