O Lord, our God, doubtless you are our Father, though Abraham (continued)
You, O God, dwellest in the high and holy place, and holy and reverend is your name. God is in heaven, and we are upon earth, therefore should we choose out words to reason with him; and yet through a mediator we have boldness to enter into the Holiest.
Isaiah 57:15. Psalm 111:9. Ecclesiastes 5:2. Job 9:14. Hebrews 10:19.
Look down (we pray you) from heaven and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory and have compassion upon us and help us. Isaiah 63:15. Mark 9:22.
Heaven is the firmament of your power: O hear us from your holy heaven with the saving strength of your right hand; send us help from the sanctuary and strengthen us out of Sion. Psalm 150:1.
And O that since heaven is our Father's house; we may have our conversation there and may seek the things that are above. John
14.2. Philippians 3:20. Colossians 3:1.
2. HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME And nowwhatis our petition, and what is our request? What would we that you should do for us? This is our heart's desire and prayer in the first place, Father in heaven, let your name be sanctified.We pray that you may be glorified as a Holy God. Esther 5:6. Matthew
20:32. Romans 10:1. Leviticus 10:3.
We desire to exalt the Lord our God, to worship at his footstool, at his holy hill, and to praise his great and terrible name, for it is holy, for the Lord our God is holy. You are holy, O you that inhabits the praises of Israel. Psalm 99:5, 3, 9. Psalm 22:3.
We glory in your holy name, and therefore shall our hearts rejoice, because we have trusted in that holy name ofyours, to which we will always give thanks, and triumph in your praise. Psalm 105:3. Psalm
Lord, enable us to glorify your holy name for evermore, by praising you with all our hearts, and by bringing forth much fruit, for herein is our heavenly Father glorified. O that we may be to our God for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory, that being called out of darkness, into his marvelous light, to be to him a peculiar people, we may shew forth the praises of him that hath called us. Psalm
86:12. John 15:8. Jeremiah 13:11. 1 Peter 2:9.
O that we may be your children, the work of your hands, that we may sanctify your name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and fear the God of Israel, and may be to the praise of his glory. Isaiah
29:23. Ephesians 1:12.
Enable us, as we have received the gift, so to minister the same as good stewards of the manifold grace of God, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ: And ifwe suffer, enable us to suffer as Christians, and to glorify God therein; for this is our earnest expectation and hope, that always Jesus Christ may be magnified in our bodies in life and death. 1 Peter 4:10, 11, 16.
Lord, enable others to glorify you, let even the strong people glorify you, and the city of the terrible nations fear you; but especially let the Lord be magnified from the border of Israel. Let them glorify the Lord in the fires, even the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea. O let all nations whom you have made come and worship before you, O Lord, and glorify your name; for you are great, and dost wondrous things, you are God alone. Isaiah 25:3. Malachi 1:5.
Isaiah 24:15. Psalm 86:9, 10.
O let the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy, let his name be known and confessed among the Gentiles, and let them rejoice with his people. O let your name be great among the Gentiles and let all the ends of the world remember and turn to the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations worship before you; and let them declare your righteousness to a people that shall be born. Romans 15:9, 10.
Malachi 1:11. Psalm 22:27, 31.
Lord, do you yourself dispose of all things to your own glory, both as King of nations, and as King of saints: Do all according to the counsel of your own will, that you mayest magnify yourself, and sanctify yourself, and mayest be known in the eyes ofmany nations, that you are the Lord. O sanctify your great name, which has been profaned among the heathen, and let them know that you are the Lord, when you shalt be sanctified in them. Jeremiah 10:7.
Revelation 15:3. Ephesians 1:11. Ezekiel 38:23. Ezekiel 36:23.
Father, glorify your own name: You have glorified it, glorify it yet again: Father, glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify you.
O give him a name above every name, and in all places, in all things let him have preeminence. John 12:28. John 17:1. Philippians 2:9.
Lord, what will you do for your great name? Do this for your great name; Pour out of your spirit upon all flesh; and let the word of