Key Points

Hallowed
Hallowed in Hebrew: Qudash
Definition: to make, or render something set apart, different; or in biblical terms “Holy.”

Hallowed in Greek: Hagiazo
Definition: to cleanse, purify, to make sacred.

Why We Worship:
1. God tells us too
2. It points us to what’s to come – Heaven!
3. It helps us remember!

Additional Points
1. Names matter because your name is your reputation.
2. There is only one God and He doesn’t share His true and proper name, Yahweh, with anyone!
3. Jesus reminds us that when we pray we pray with God’s holiness, His character and His fame in mind.
4. Singing in worship literally helps you love the Lord your God with all of your heart, soul and mind! It also helps us connect to God, to heaven and to our church family.
6. All of our worship ministers to and blesses Jesus!
7. God doesn’t need our worship but He does desire it. He doesn’t desire it because He’s insecure but because He is worthy of it.
8. The problem is not if we will worship but what or who we will worship.

Why Worship Matters
1. Worship shapes your identity.
2. Worship changes your desires.
3. Our worship becomes our weapons!

Key Scripture

Matthew 6:9
This, then, is how you should pray:
Our Father in heaven….
hallowed be your name

Exodus 3:13-15
13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’
“This is my name forever,
the name you shall call me
from generation to generation.”

1 Chronicles 16:29
Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
bring an offering and come before him.
Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness.

1 Kings 5:5
I intend, therefore, to build a temple for the Name of the Lord my God, as the Lord told my father David, when he said, ‘Your son whom I will put on the throne in your place will build the temple for my Name.’

Psalm 150:6
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord.

Revelation 5:13
And then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea. They sang: “Blessing and honor and glory and power belong to the one sitting on the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever.”

Colossians 3:16
Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.

Acts 17:28
‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’

Psalm 42:1-2
As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?

Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Psalm 27:4
One thing I ask from the Lord,
this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
and to seek him in his temple.

Ephesians 6:12
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

2 Corinthians 10:3-4
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

2 Chronicles 20:21
After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the Lord and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying:
“Give thanks to the Lord,
for his love endures forever.”

Key References

Wherever God is worshipped in spirit and in truth, his Kingdom is established, his freedom reigns, and the works of the devil are destroyed. Pure praise has always been a weapon of mass destruction to the Kingdom of darkness.

This is why Satan, the sworn enemy of God, hates the song of the redeemed and the praises of the lamb more than any other sound on earth. Because he is a killer, a stealer, and a destroyer, he has been hell bent on destroying the worship movement long before it ever had a chance at maturity.

He was aware of its great, destructive power to his realm of darkness long before we were. We just thought we were singing simple love songs to Jesus and were almost oblivious to the fact we were simultaneously destroying the gates of hell.
Jeremy Riddle, The Reset

The Challenge

If you need freedom or heart transformation, change the focus and object of your worship.

The Big Idea

Our prayer must turn into action. Don’t just pray “Hallowed be thy name” declare it as a desire for God to move your life into action, to make Jesus famous and to glorify His name through our worship!

Because God is Awesome!