Hallowed be thy name

And now, what is our petition, and what is our request? What would we that thou shouldest do for us? This is our heart’s desire and prayer in the first place, Father in heaven, let thy name be sanctified. We pray that thou mayest be glorified as a holy God. Esth 5:6. Matt 10:32. Rom 10:1. Lev 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. Thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Ps 99:5, 9; Ps 22:3.

We glory in thy holy name, and therefore shall our hearts rejoice, because that we have trusted in that holy name of thine, to which we will always give thanks, and triumph in thy praise. Ps 105:3; Ps 33:21; Ps 106:47.

Lord, enable us to glorify thy holy name for evermore, by praising thee 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 marvellous light, to be to him a peculiar people, we may show forth the praises of him that hath called us. Ps 86:12. John 15:8. Jer 13:11.1 Pet 2:9.

O that we may be thy children, the work of thy hands, that we may sanctify thy name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and fear the God of Israel, and may be to the praise of his glory. Isa 29:23. Eph 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 if we 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 Pet 4:10, 11, 16. Phil 1:20.

Lord, enable others to glorify thee, even the strong people to glorify thee, and the city of the terrible nations fear thee ; but especially let tlt 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 thou hast made, come and worship before thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name: for thou art great, and dost wondrous things; thou art God alone. Isa 25:3. Mal 1:5. Isa 24:15. Ppa. lexxyi..9-10.

O let the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy, let his name be known among the Gentiles, and let them rejoice with his people. O let thy 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 thee ; and let them declare thy righteousness to a people that shall be born. Rom 15:9, 10. Mal 1:11. Ps 22:27–28

Lord, do thou thyself dispose of all things to thy own glory, both as King of nations, and King of saints. Do all according to the counsel of thy own will, that thou mayest magnify thyself, and sanctify thyself, and mayest be known in the eyes of many nations, that thou art the Lord. O sanctify thy great name, which has been profaned among the heathen, and let them know that thou art the Lord, when thou shalt be sanctified in them. Jer 10:7. Rev 15:3. Eph 1:11. Ezek 38:23 ; Ezek 36:23.

Father, glorify thine own name; thou hast glorified it, glorify it yet again. Father, glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee. O give him a name above every name, and in all places, and in all things let him have the pre-eminence. John 12:28; John 17:1. Phil 2:9.

Lord, what wilt thou do for thy great name? Do this for thy great name; pour out of thy Spirit upon all flesh, and let the word of Christ dwell richly in the hearts of all. Be thou exalted, O Lord, among the heathen ; be thou exalted in the earth. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, let thy glory be above all the earth. Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thine own strength, so will we sing and praise thy power. Do great things with thy glorious and everlasting arm, to make unto thyself a glorious and everlasting name. Josh 7:9. Joel 2:28. Col 3:16. Ps 46:10 ; Ps 57:11; Ps 21:13. Isa 63:12, 14.

O let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. 1 Chr 17:24.

‹ Our Father which art in heaven · Thy kingdom come ›

Pray now: a guided prayer in six parts, with the next heads each day.

Henry’s text is in the public domain. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, No. 265 Chestnut Street. Undated, about 1840 to 1860. The preface is dated Chester, March 25, 1710. From the Internet Archive scan. The KJV text is in the public domain.