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Week two - Hallowed
Matthew 6:9-10 and Exodus 3:1-15
Last week - there’s no wrong way to pray, show up and talk to Jesus
But we left off right as Jesus was starting to tell the disciples how to pray -
9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“ ‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven. —Matthew 6:9-10
Prayer at its most basic level is the
Hallowed (def.) - highly respected or admired
Thing - eg. hallowed halls, hallowed traditions, hallowed ground
Where are the sacred places you’ve found yourself where it feels like you should be quiet or perhaps move more slowly and deliberately?
1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
And Moses said, “Here I am.”
5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” —Exodus 3:1-5
The bush, the errand (tending flocks), the place - the
Because..
God makes it holy.
“Hallowed be your name.”
There is a God and you are not Him.
We downplay the holiness of God and forget we are part of His kingdom and not the reverse. We want His will to be done and not our own.
Our posture in prayer is one of
6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12 And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”
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. —Exodus 3:6-15
Jesus turns the “God of your fathers,” into “Our Father”
Jesus doesn’t take away from the holiness of God -
“He makes the holy knowable.” —Tyler Staton, “Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools”
Jesus makes the ordinary holy, and the holy knowable.
God is holy and God is near.
Action:
Speak to God as one who has access, His kid, but start with
(Even if, it’s “defiant adoration” - don’t miss this part in Staton’s book)