“But what about God’s first name being Andy or Howard?”įorrest said, “Well from the song “Andy walks with me, Andy talks with me, Andy tells me I am his own…” and then there’s the prayer, “Our Father, who art in Heaven, Howard be thy name …'” “OK, I’ll give you that one too,” said Saint Peter. But how did you get 12 seconds in a year? And where did you get the idea that God’s first name was Andy or Howard?”įorrest responded, “Well, There’s January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd, and so on…” Saint Peter said, “OK, I’ll buy Today and Tomorrow, even though it’s not the answer I expected, so your answer is correct. God has two-first names, and they are Andy and Howard. The two days of the week that begin with “T” are Today and Tomorrow. Name two days of the week that begin with the letter “T”.įorrest thought for a few minutes and answered: In order to gain admittance, a prospective Heavenly Soul must answer three questions. You know, ‘Our Father, who art in heaven, Harold by thy name….”Īt the Pearly Gates Saint Peter told him that new rules were in effect due to the advances in education on earth. Johnny replied, “that’s what they teach us at church. Coming up with no answer, they asked him at the breakfast table the next morning, “Johnny, why did you call God, ‘Harold’?” The parents went to bed that night pondering the strange way their son had begun his prayer. Please be with Grandma and Granddaddy, and help me be good boy. They became confused, though, as they heard him pray, “Dear Harold, I want to thank you for my Mommy and Daddy and my dog, Spot. One evening little Johnny’s parents stood outside his room and listened to him offer up his evening prayers. That to be like His name is true way to commend it.Bible Text: Luke 11:1-4 | Preacher: Lee Roy Pittard III | Series: The Lord’s Prayer | Some folks come up with interesting names for God. The ever-present remembrance, that the name of God is blasphemed or hallowed, that God is glorified or disgraced, by us. Seeking for ourselves that we may be the means of others doing so. Desiring for world most of all that it may hallow the Name. To what practical life this prayer binds us.įollowing in our estimates, aims, and practice the sequence which it prescribes. 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God,' is a maxim for social reformation as well as for individual life. (c) That plans for the reformation of men should begin with the exterior, leaving theological subtleties to themselves. (b) That accurate knowledge of God and His will matters comparatively little if we have devout emotions and experiences. (a) That religion is chiefly to give us forgiveness. This sequence of petitions corrects many errors into which we are apt to fall. That knowledge is the guide of emotions and of practical life, as set forth here in the order of petitions. That the Inward comes before the Outward. That the most important of all questions is, How does a man think of God? That the knowledge will affect their whole scheme of thought and life. That true knowledge of God is the deepest and fundamental necessity for all men. The place of this petition in the prayer is explained by considerations which suggest very important thoughts for ourselves and all men.
Then in regard to God, we first ask not that His law may be kept, but that His nature may be known. And though the two things coincide, which of them is foremost in our minds makes an infinite difference. It is God's glory even more than men's knowledge of Him that the petition contemplates. We should begin not with ourselves, but with God not with temporal wants, not even with our own spiritual ones. Singular, that so remote a petition should stand at beginning. 'I have declared Thy name, and will declare it.' His finished work does not render this prayer unnecessary. That Christ is the great means of His hallowing His Name. On the conviction that men cannot attain it for themselves. On the fact that men need the knowledge of the Name. In other words, the petition rests on the assurance of God's fatherly love, which cannot but will that His children should know their Father as He is. On the confidence that God wills that His Name should be known. Hallowed by human adoration and appropriate sentiments. The prayer asks that God would so act as to show the holiness of His character, and that men, one and all, may see the holiness of His character. The second of these is God's hallowing of His Name. Hallowed means to make holy or to show as holy or to regard as holy. After this manner therefore pray you: Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name.