FAITH CAPSULE: Are you hallowing His name?

Numbers 20:1-13

Jesus taught prayer stating, “Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.” (Matthew 6:9) Hallowing the name of God is blessing, respecting, sanctifying, deifying, and revering the name of God. The name of God deserves honor. Proverbs 18:10 identified the name of God, “The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.” What is limiting the understanding of the name of God in your life?
Moses wanted to know the name of God before delivering the message of God to Pharaoh as God identified His name. The book of Exodus 3:13-14 recorded, “Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” It is important to know and always remember that the word of God is not a waste when He stated that He is a jealous God. A jealous God definitely demands attention in every meaningful to call on Him or to answer His calling.
Are you hallowing His name?
As great as Moses was in the hand of God, his sin that deprived him from stepping on the Promised Land was the result of his failure to hallow the name of God. When God commanded Moses to speak to the rock for water to quench the thirsty of the Israelites, Moses went and struck the rock. (Numbers 20:7-9) Moses’ act dis-hallowed God and it counted against Moses as disobedient before God. God responded to Moses, “…Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”(Numbers 20:12)  A failure to hallow God is an evidence of lack of belief; it is also a rebellious to God as bible testified in Numbers 27:14, “For in the Wilderness of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against My command to hallow Me at the waters before their eyes…” Trespassing against God also counted as dis-hallowing God against Moses, “because you trespassed against Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin, because you did not hallow Me in the midst of the children of Israel.” (Deuteronomy 32:51) As a result of the truth that Moses did not hallow God, the word counted unbelief, rebellion and trespassing against Moses. Know to constantly hallow God. “The Lord of Hosts, Him you shall hallow; let Him be your fear.” (Isaiah 8:13)  In your walk let God know you fear; when you go before Him in your prayer know to hallow his name.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace not to be a failure to hallow Him.