Honoring His Name as Holy

As I was in the Father’s presence this morning I has an urge to write this and let it be known that it is time for God’s people to rise up and restore honor to the Father’s name.

God has been misrepresented among His people long enough! Most of God’s people live in sin and accept it as if it’s okay. What I mean by sin in not just what we call the “bad kind.” I am talking about the sin of prayerlessness, faithlessness, lack of trust in God & His word, unforgiveness, and lack of desire to know God through His word. I am talking about living as the nations in hopelessness, worry, doubt, and fear. I am taking about zero or little contrast between the believer and unbeliever. If we were tried as a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict us?

Jesus taught his disciples to pray, “Father in Heaven, Your name be honored as holy.” We are to pray that God is honored on earth in our lives. That means that we do and live as Jesus did. He was the prototype of what we should be as children of God. He was the Father’s delight. He honored God every day of His life by living by the Spirit, hearing the Father’s voice, and carrying out what He saw the Father doing. He didn’t do this on His own power, but by the power of the Spirit. We must do the same. Jesus lived by EVERY WORD that came out of the mouth of God, we must and CAN do the same. The Father’s name can only be honored by living the life of Jesus on Earth. We too must become the Father’s delight!

Forget the excuses for we as believers have NONE. We have what Jesus had. He had no sin, but became sin for us and dealt the death-blow to the power of sin in our lives through His cross. So sin really shouldn’t be an issue to any true believer.

He became the life-giving Spirit and as such RESIDES in every born-again believer. He is living in us to live out His life just as He did while a man on earth, a life pleasing to the Father and expressing the Father’s desire to bring Heaven to Earth and manifest His goodness to all mankind.

So what is holding so many “Christian’s” back? Choice! The choice that Adam had in the garden is with us every single day. We can chose to honor God by living by the life and power of the Spirit or we can live in our fallen nature including our fallen thoughts and thus express what every other human being does on earth: Sin, worry, doubt, and fear. We can chose to medicate ourselves or seek to live the heavenly life on earth. What will it be? Honor God or dishonor Him by making excuses for our weakness instead of coming to Him in repentance and allowing His full access into our lives. It’s your choice, so chose well my fellow believer. Chose well.