War room prayer Part 8 – The Person of Prayer
Patrick J van Rensburg`
Pray in this manner
Mat 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Mat 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. Mat 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread. Mat 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Mat 6:13 And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Mat 6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. Mat 6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
- God is our Father
Mat 6:9b Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Honour the name of God
Recognise God as your Father. I will not use your name in a bad way. I will not use your name to curse. I honour your name. There is no name like your name.
Ps 9:10 And those who know Your
name will put their trust in You;
For You, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
Hallowed be thy name
Sanctify me- To sanctify someone or something is to set that person or thing apart for the use intended by its designer.
Sanctify, therefore, becomes a synonym for “trust and obey”
The Names of our Father
EL, ELOAH: God “mighty, strong, prominent” (Nehemiah 9:17; Psalm 139:19) – El appears to mean “power” and “might” (Genesis 31:29). El is associated with other qualities, such as integrity (Numbers 23:19), jealousy (Deuteronomy 5:9), and compassion (Nehemiah 9:31), but the root idea of “might” remains.
EL SHADDAI: “God Almighty,” “The Mighty One of Jacob” (Genesis 49:24; Psalm 132:2,5) – speaks to God’s ultimate power over all.
ADONAI : “Lord” (Genesis 15:2; Judges 6:15) – used in place of YHWH, which was thought by the Jews to be too sacred to be uttered by sinful men. In the Old Testament, YHWH is more often used in God’s dealings with His people, while Adonai is used more when He deals with the Gentiles.
JEHOVAH : “LORD” (Deuteronomy 6:4; Daniel 9:14) – strictly speaking, the only proper name for God. Translated in English Bibles “LORD” (all capitals) to distinguish it from Adonai, “Lord.” The revelation of the name is given to Moses “I Am who I Am” (Exodus 3:14). This name specifies an immediacy, a presence. Yahweh is present, accessible, near to those who call on Him for deliverance (Psalm 107:13), forgiveness (Psalm 25:11) and guidance (Psalm 31:3).
YAHWEH-JIREH [yah-way-ji-reh]: “The Lord Will Provide” (Genesis 22:14) – the name memorialized by Abraham when God provided the ram to be sacrificed in place of Isaac.
YAHWEH-RAPHA : “The Lord Who Heals” (Exodus 15:26) – “I am Jehovah who heals you” both in body and soul. In body, by preserving from and curing diseases, and in soul, by pardoning iniquities.
YAHWEH-NISSI : “The Lord Our Banner” (Exodus 17:15), where banner is understood to be a rallying place. This name commemorates the desert victory over the Amalekites in Exodus 17.
YAHWEH-M’KADDESH: “The Lord Who Sanctifies, Makes Holy” (Leviticus 20:8; Ezekiel 37:28) – God makes it clear that He alone, not the law, can cleanse His people and make them holy.
YAHWEH-SHALOM: “The Lord Our Peace” (Judges 6:24) – the name given by Gideon to the altar he built after the Angel of the Lord assured him he would not die as he thought he would after seeing Him.
YAHWEH-ELOHIM: “LORD God” (Genesis 2:4; Psalm 59:5) – a combination of God’s unique name YHWH and the generic “Lord,” signifying that He is the Lord of Lords.
YAHWEH-TSIDKENU: “The Lord Our Righteousness” (Jeremiah 33:16)
YAHWEH-ROHI : “The Lord Our Shepherd” (Psalm 23:1) – After David pondered his relationship as a shepherd to his sheep, he realized that was exactly the relationship God had with him, and so he declares, “Yahweh-Rohi is my Shepherd. I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1).
YAHWEH-SHAMMAH: “The Lord Is There” (Ezekiel 48:35) – the name ascribed to Jerusalem and the Temple there, indicating that the once-departed glory of the Lord (Ezekiel 8—11) had returned (Ezekiel 44:1-4).
YAHWEH-SABAOTH “The Lord of Hosts” (Isaiah 1:24; Psalm 46:7) – Hosts means “hordes,” both of angels and of men. He is Lord of the host of heaven and of the inhabitants of the earth, of Jews and Gentiles, of rich and poor, master and slave. The name is expressive of the majesty, power, and authority of God and shows that He is able to accomplish what He determines to do.
EL ELYON: “Most High” (Deuteronomy 26:19) – derived from the Hebrew root for “go up” or “ascend,” so the implication is of that which is the very highest. El Elyon denotes exaltation and speaks of absolute right to lordship.
EL ROI: “God of Seeing” (Genesis 16:13) – the name ascribed to God by Hagar, alone and desperate in the wilderness after being driven out by Sarah (Genesis 16:1-14). When Hagar met the Angel of the Lord, she realized she had seen God Himself. She also realized that El Roi saw her in her distress and testified that He is a God who lives and sees all.
EL-OLAM: “Everlasting God” (Psalm 90:1-3) – God’s nature is without beginning or end, free from all constraints of time, and He contains within Himself the very cause of time itself. “From everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”
EL-GIBHOR: “Mighty God” (Isaiah 9:6) – the name describing the Messiah, Christ Jesus, in this prophetic portion of Isaiah. As a powerful and mighty warrior, the Messiah, the Mighty God, will accomplish the destruction of God’s enemies and rule with a rod of iron (Revelation 19:15).
Our Father – This is plural. We are reminded that we are born in God’s family.
Eph 3:14 For this reason I fall on my knees before the Father, Eph 3:15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth receives its true name.
Eph 3:16 I ask God from the wealth of his glory to give you power through his Spirit to be strong in your inner selves, Eph 3:17 and I pray that Christ will make his home in your hearts through faith. I pray that you may have your roots and foundation in love, Eph 3:18 so that you, together with all God’s people, may have the power to understand how broad and long, how high and deep, is Christ’s love. Eph 3:19 Yes, may you come to know his love—although it can never be fully known—and so be completely filled with the very nature of God. Eph 3:20 To him who by means of his power working in us is able to do so much more than we can ever ask for, or even think of: Eph 3:21 to God be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus for all time, forever and ever! Amen.
Mat 18:19 Again I say to you that if two of you shall agree on earth as regarding anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them by My Father in Heaven.
Mat 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst.
Our Father that is in heaven,
- The Father of all.
- Our Father above all.
- The Lord of all.
When you pray, “Our Father in heaven” you are saying to God, “I recognize that I need help from outside my realm.”
It is a confession of submission.
“You’re greater than all of us, O Lord. We need Your help from heaven.” This prayer also reminds us that if the Father is not on earth, we need an intermediary. We must depend on Jesus and the Holy Spirit to be our intermediaries with God, who is in heaven.
Hallowed be thou name – God is set-apart of all evil of your life. God is set-apart from all evil in your life. Our father is not causing the evil in our life
Lev 22:32 Do not bring disgrace on my holy name; all the people of Israel must acknowledge me to be holy. I am the LORD and I make you holy; Lev 22:33 and I brought you out of Egypt to become your God. I am the LORD.”
“Hallowed be Your name.” The word hallowed means reverenced, set apart, or sanctified. We are to worship the Father as the Holy One. Later on, we can make our requests, but we begin our prayer with worship.
When you pray, honour all the attributes of God’s holiness, such as His love, faithfulness, integrity, and grace.
Worship Him. Adore Him. Exalt
Him. Magnify Him. Glorify Him. After you pray, keep honouring Him in your life
and all your
relationships.
God has sanctified you. He has set you apart from the bad and evil. God has set you apart from the evil father.
2. Satan is the bad father.
God is our Good Father.
Joh 10:10 The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life—life in all its fullness. Joh 10:11 “I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep
Joh 8:38 Ek spreek van wat Ek by my Vader gesien het, en julle doen ook wat julle by jul vader gesien het. Joh 8:39 Hulle antwoord en sê vir Hom: Ons vader is Abraham. Jesus sê vir hulle: As julle die kinders van Abraham was, sou julle die werke van Abraham doen; Joh 8:40 maar nou probeer julle om My om die lewe te bring, iemand wat aan julle die waarheid vertel het, wat Ek van God gehoor het. Dit het Abraham nie gedoen nie. Joh 8:41 Julle doen die werke van jul vader. Toe sê hulle vir Hom: Ons is nie uit ontug gebore nie; ons het een Vader, naamlik God. Joh 8:42 En Jesus sê vir hulle: As God julle Vader was, sou julle My liefhê, want Ek het uit God uitgegaan en gekom; want Ek het ook nie uit Myself gekom nie, maar Hy het My gestuur. Joh 8:43 Waarom ken julle my spraak nie? Omdat julle na my woord nie kan luister nie. Joh 8:44 Julle het die duiwel as vader, en die begeertes van julle vader wil julle doen. Hy was ‘n mensemoordenaar van die begin af en staan nie in die waarheid nie, omdat daar in hom geen waarheid is nie. Wanneer hy leuentaal praat, praat hy uit sy eie, omdat hy ‘n leuenaar is en die vader daarvan.
Satan is the bad father. Satan wants to kill you. He is going around like a lion. He is a liar. God is Good. All good comes from God.
3. God is the good Father
Jas 1:13 When someone is tempted, he shouldn’t say that God is tempting him. God can’t be tempted by evil, and God doesn’t tempt anyone. Jas 1:14 But we are tempted when we are drawn away and trapped by our own evil desires. Jas 1:15 Then our evil desires conceive and give birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. Jas 1:16 Do not be deceived, my dear friends! Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven; it comes down from God, the Creator of the heavenly lights, who does not change or cause darkness by turning.
Prayer is to talk to the Good Father about what the bad father did.
Psa 119:68 You are good, and you do good things.
We react out of rejection. We are all born as rejected children, but we are now part of God’s family.
Joh 20:17 “Do not hold on to me,” Jesus told her, “because I have not yet gone back up to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am returning to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God.”
You can talk to your Father when you have problems. Your Father has no evil thoughts about you, only good thoughts about you.
Mat 6:9b Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.