Hallowed be your name

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We come through Christ Jesus, to express our entire confidence in you. We believe that you are and that you are the rewarder of those who diligently seek you."

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SpurgeonBooks
June 11, 2024

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Hallowed be your name. Oh, that all the earth would ever revere it! As for us, enable us by your grace to use your name with awe and trembling and may a consideration of the glorious character which is intended by your gracious name, always lay us in the very dust before you, and yet lift us up with holy joy, and with an unwavering confidence.

We come before you this morning, through Christ Jesus, to express our entire confidence in you. We believe that you are and that you are the rewarder of those who diligently seek you.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, your name be honored as holy.” (Matthew 6:9)

Our Lord, having warned us against certain vices which had connected themselves with prayer, as to its place and spirit, now gives us a model upon which to fashion our prayers. This delightful prayer is short, devout, and full of meaning. Its first three petitions are for God and his glory. Our chief prayers to God are to be for his glory. Do we begin this way with God in prayer? Does not the daily bread often come in before the kingdom?

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Reawakening to the majesty of holiness

Yesterday, I recommended a book to help you see the Lord’s Prayer in a fresh light. Unfortunately, our familiarity with this epic prayer often causes us to miss its significance.

I think the same is true with the holiness of God — we are often so used to talking about the holiness of God that we forget how shocking and amazing of a reality it is that our God is holy, holy, holy.

If you want to remember again the power and majesty of God’s holiness, I highly recommend Holier Than Thou by Jackie Hill Perry. I love the way Jackie uses words to creatively open our eyes to the bigness and greatness of God.

Add Holier Than Thou to your summer reading list — but beware, this book will point to a MASSIVE God. It is not for the faint of heart.