Hallowed be Your Name

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE WORD IN PRAYER

Repentance

We are going to go over the Lords prayer today, and you will be shows some beautiful verses about prayer. What the greats prayed, how we should pray. But im telling you right now, we can look at all the methods and symposiums on how to pray, but that will never give us the desire to pray. Prayer must be taught out of the sheer need for Christ. That is the only thing that will sustain your prayer. I dont care how well you know how to pray, If you stop recognizing your need for christ, you will stop prayin

Teaching is crucial. Sound doctrine is crucial. without it the church goes no where.

But so is prayer.

Jim Cymbala says

“PRAYER IS THE SOURCE of the Christian life, a Christian’s lifeline. Otherwise, it’s like having a baby in your arms and dressing her up so cute—but she’s not breathing! Never mind the frilly clothes; stabilize the child’s vital signs. It does no good to talk to someone in a comatose state. That’s why the great emphasis on teaching in today’s churches is producing such limited results. Teaching is good only where there’s life to be channeled. If the listeners are in a spiritual coma, what we’re telling them may be fine and orthodox, but unfortunately, spiritual life cannot be taught.”

We are going to spend the next two weeks on these 5 verses

Matthew 6:5–8 ““And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”

Matthew 6:9–13 “Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”

Doctrine, prayer, communion, baptism

Doctrine: Shows us jesus

Petition: Connects us to Jesus

Communion: Reminds us of Jesus

Baptism: Raises us with Jesus

The Spirit works through all of these to reveal Jesus (John 15:26)

This week is prayer week. Its not enough to talk about the topic of Prayer, I must talk about Him

the word radical comes from the Latin word radix, which means "root".

To be radical is to get to the root

The root of prayer is not a language, a speech, a tongue, an action, it is a man. His name is Jesus

Prayer is not just talking its also listening.

One of our taglines is God is the goal, prayer is the means, worship is the response.

We think authority in prayer is just yelling loud, true authority comes when we submit to His

Authority from the word, gives authority to our words

Submitting to His greatness is submitting to His authority

How can we hallow His name if we don’t know it?

If i came to you and just spoke on the topic of prayer it would be like describing the temperature of the room, my goal is not to get you to describe what a room feels like but to experience it for yourself, to feel how cold it is, how hot it is, how warm it is. How dark or how light it is.

I don’t want to just start with the topic of prayer, every religion has prayer, theres nothing special about prayer. Prayer becomes special when its HIM that youre praying to.

Cs lewis talks about a man he knew who wanted to get to europe, he was standing on the shores of the atlantic looking for a way to get across. He saw the waves crashing and it was exciting, it was real. And for some, the experience of swimming on the shores of the atlantic is enough. But if you want to get to europe, if you want to get anywhere, If you want to go deep with God, you need a map. Now of course this analogy isnt perfect, as it can be suggestive that we need to know the plan, but thats not what its saying at all, what its saying is that you cannot go anywhere spiritually if you do not know His word.

my goal is not to get you to read a map, my goal is to get you to swim across the Atlantic. i dont want you to get lost on your way across the ocean. I dont want you to drown. I want you to make it across. So when speaking of prayer the most valuable thing I can do is to start with the Word.

We have to have a reverence for the word.

If our knowledge of God is shallow our prayer will be too.

So many people debate on this subject. They say well if you want power in prayer pray with authority and demand and command, if you want power in prayer ask God for things, if you want power in prayer pray loud. The power does not come from the form it comes from the person

The power in Prayer is only a product of the person of Prayer

Proverbs 1:28–32 “Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof, therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices. For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them;”

1 Corinthians 14:14–15 “For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.” ‘

Romans 12:2 “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

Colossians 3:2 “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.”

Romans 7:25 ESV

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

WE MUST NOT DESPISE KNOWLEDGE

IF YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IS SHALLOW YOUR PRAYERS WILL BE SHALLOW TOO

THE SPIRIT WILL AWAKEN OUR MINDS TO THINK HIGH THOUGHTS ABOUT GOD

You do not do anything without prayer! WHY? because you do not do anything without God

Sometimes when people reject you we are too quick to believe it is proof of our dejection when really a lot of times when people reject you it isn't proof of your dejection it is proof of the reality that you convict them in areas they don’t want to change in. So they push you away not because there is any defect in you but because there is immaturity in themselves.

We do this with God. We ignore Him when we don’t want to change. Prayer is a plea of our need for Him, Prayer is a plea for Him to come and bring to light what has been festering in the dark

This is an issue because we have so many people calling things prayer but they are ignoring the God they are praying to. It is not prayer if its not in alignment with this book. Its not intimacy if its not biblical, its not relationship if its not doctrinal, its not loving if its not truthful, it its not conversation with Him if your form of Him is different than how He presents Himself here.

They say they don’t know so that they can ignore what He said so that they can live the lifestyles they want.

They say things like, oh I just feel closer to God when I do this, well if that thing your doing isn’t biblical, i can assure you, its not God you are getting closer to

The most humble thing we can do is submit to this book.

This is why I get sad when people pretend to have false humility by saying they don’t know. Its actually the most humble thing you can do to say YEAH I KNOW THAT. I have 100% assurance of that because it says it right here.

Isaiah 66:2 “All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.”

Dont you see why so few really know Him? If we want to know God we have to be diligent students of His Word

2 Timothy 2:15 “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.”

We cant just skip over verses we don’t like. if our view of Him is inaccurate our prayers to Him are invalid.

Submit your life to this book and you will be well on your way to becoming a man or woman of prayer

YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE MIND OF GOD WITHOUT THE SPIRIT OF GOD, BUT WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD.. WE MIGHT UNDERSTAND THE THINGS FREELY GIVEN TO US BY GOD.

1 Corinthians 2 ESV

And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Notice every single one of these was written in the old testament

Romans 15:4 tells us that what “was written in earlier times was written for our instruction.” So there’s much we can learn about prayer from Old Testament saints.

Elohim: Creator

Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

El Elyon: The Most High (Sovereign)

El Elyon Genesis 14:18–20 “And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.) And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.”

El Roi: The God Who Sees

Genesis 16:13 “So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.””

Adonai: Lord, Master

Genesis 15:2 “But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?””

El Shaddai: The All-Sufficient One

Genesis 17:1–3 “When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.” Then Abram fell on his face. ..

Yahweh: the Self-Existent One

Genesis 2:4 “These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.”

Exodus 6:2–4 “God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them. I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.”

Jehovah-Tsidkenu: The LORD Our Righteousness

Jeremiah 23:6 “In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’”

Jehovah-Jireh: The LORD Will Provide

Genesis 22:14 “So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.””

Jehovah-Raah : The LORD Is My Shepherd

Psalm 23:1 “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”

Jehovah-Shalom: The LORD Is Peace

Judges 6:24 “Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, The Lord Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.”

Jehovah-Nissi: The LORD Is My Banner

Exodus 17:15 “And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner,”

Jehovah-Rapha (Rapa): The LORD Who Heals

Exodus 15:26 “saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.””

Jehovah-Shammah: The LORD Is There

Ezekiel 48:35 “The circumference of the city shall be 18,000 cubits. And the name of the city from that time on shall be, The Lord Is There.””

Jehovah-Sabaoth: The LORD of Hosts

1 Samuel 1:11 (Hannahs Plea) “And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.””

Jehovah-Mekod-dishkem: The Lord Who Sanctifies You

Exodus 31:13 ““You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you.”

Watch how each of these prayers begin. Look at what their prayers contain

Isaiah 37:14-20: Second Kings 18:13-37 tells that Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, was threatening to destroy Jerusalem if King Hezekiah would not surrender. You can find the same account in condensed form in Isaiah 37. It was a day of distress, rebuke, and rejection for Hezekiah, and he felt he had no strength to do anything about it (verse 3). Ever had a day like that? Is today a day like that? Read verses 14-20 and learn from him.”

Isaiah 37:14–20 ESV

Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord. And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: “O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands, and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed. So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.”

LOOK AT THIS ONE

2 Chronicles 20:3–19 ESV

Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. And Judah assembled to seek help from the Lord; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord. And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court, and said, “O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you. Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend? And they have lived in it and have built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying, ‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you—for your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’ And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy— behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.” Meanwhile all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly. And he said, “Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says the Lord to you, ‘Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God’s. Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, east of the wilderness of Jeruel. You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.’ Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, and the Lord will be with you.” Then Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord, worshiping the Lord. And the Levites, of the Kohathites and the Korahites, stood up to praise the Lord, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice.

Look at what preceded the fall of the Holy Spirit (an acknowledgement of who God is)

“Acts 4:23-31 Peter and John healed a man and caused a stir (3:1-10). By declaring Jesus, they upset religious leaders who ordered them to quit preaching in Jesus’ name (4:18).”

Acts 4:23–31 ESV

When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, “ ‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’— for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.

Look what happens when the life of prayer is not valued. When he is not your reward. You will enter into the promise land but miss Him.

Jeremiah 32:16–25 ESV

“After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord, saying: ‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts, great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds. You have shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day. You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror. And you gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey. And they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey your voice or walk in your law. They did nothing of all you commanded them to do. Therefore you have made all this disaster come upon them. Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you spoke has come to pass, and behold, you see it. Yet you, O Lord God, have said to me, “Buy the field for money and get witnesses”—though the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.’ ”

The response of His vision was not a glorification of himself but a glorification of God

“Daniel 2:19–23 “Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding; he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king’s matter.””

In repentance we should acknowledge who God is, we should acknowledge what we have done, and we should ask for mercy.

“Daniel 9:3-19

Daniel 9:3–19 ESV

Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you. To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him. He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice. And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly. “O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us. Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate. O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

Call on the name of the Lord