The Name of God -- A Prayer

Psalm 34:3 – “O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His Name together.”

Dear Father in Heaven,
.......Hallowed be Your Name. “O LORD our Lord, how excellent is Thy Name in all the earth!” (Ps. 8:1, 9) “Let them also that love Thy Name be joyful in Thee” (Ps. 5:11). May Your Name defend us (Ps. 21:1). As we “rejoice in Thy salvation and set up our banners in Your Name, fulfil all [our] petitions” (Ps. 20:5). While others trust in horses and chariots, may we always “remember the name of the LORD our God” (Ps. 20:7).
.......May we who have taken the name of Christ not take It in vain but live as faithful members of the respectful, submissive Bride of Christ. May we graciously “have love one to another” (Jn. 13:35), and may we “be made perfect in one” (Jn. 17:23); so “that the world may believe that You have sent” Jesus of Nazareth as our Lord and Savior and Christ (Jn. 17:21), so that all men shall know that we are Christ’s disciples (Jn. 13:35), and so “that all the earth may know that there is a God in” the Christian Church (I Sam. 17:46).
.......By these, may we even of this generation be privileged to see obvious and glorious manifestations of the coming, growth, and spreading of Your kingdom over all the earth and of Your will being “done in earth, as it is in heaven.” (Matt. 6:10). Then “all nations whom Thou hast made shall come and worship before Thee, O Lord; and shall glorify Thy Name,” as You have promised (Ps. 86:9).
.......So we pray with Your Son, in His Name, and with gratitude for Your subsequent promise to do just this: “Father, glorify Thy Name” (Jn. 12:28). Amen.