“I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart, I will glorify your name forever” (Psalm 86:12). When we pray for the Father in heaven to be hallowed, we are in fact lining up with God’s purposes to destroy the influence of another power-sphere. We are declaring that God’s name will expel the rule of evil from earth itself. We are lining our lives up with God’s purposes to destroy all the works of the devil, to cast out all hatred, all animosity, all despair, all disease, all meaningless suffering, to remove all things that subvert or oppose God’s true rule and destroy people. In the end, to pray this prayer is to cast out Satan himself through the proclamation that Jesus died for us and rose again to become the risen Lord. To pray “Glorify Your name” is to assert that all of our lives be put on the line to destroy evil everywhere, up to and including following Christ in the offering of ourselves in martyrdom.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:35:40 +0000
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