Prayer’s First Priority

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The first priority in praying is to ask our heavenly Father to cause his name to be hallowed. In us. In the church. In the world. Everywhere.

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0:00.0	October 20, prayer's first priority.
0:05.8	Pray then like this, our Father in heaven,
0:10.6	hallowed be your name, Matthew 6.9.
0:16.4	In the Lord's prayer, Jesus teaches
0:19.6	that the first priority in praying
0:22.9	is to ask our Heavenly Father
0:24.8	to cause His name to be hallowed.
0:27.9	In us, in the church, in the world, everywhere.
0:31.8	Notice that this is a petition, a request.
0:36.1	It is not a declaration or acclamation.
0:40.6	It is not an expression of praise,
0:43.6	but petition for years.
0:45.6	I misread the Lord's prayer
0:47.4	as if it began with praise.
0:50.0	Praise God.
0:51.8	The Lord's name is hallowed, revered, honored.
0:55.8	But it is not acclamation.
0:58.5	It is supplication.
1:00.8	It is a request to God
1:03.4	that He would see to it that His own name be hallowed.
1:08.5	It is like another text, Matthew 9.38,
1:11.7	where Jesus tells us to pray to the Lord
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