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You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for Yehovah will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name

The LORDS Prayer

God detests the prayers of a person who ignores the law.  Proverbs 28:9

Yeshua said, “This is how you should pray:

When you pray, don’t babble on and on as the Gentiles do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. Matthew 6:7

Based on the text you provided, the Master’s model prayer (The Lord's Prayer) is not a ritual to be babbled or repeated mindlessly. Instead, it is a sequential blueprint for a covenant lifestyle.

Here is the step-by-step breakdown of how the prayer connects directly to the laws, identity, and commands of the Father:

📋 Step-by-Step Blueprint of the Master’s Prayer

 

1.Establish Your Family Identity:“Our Father in heaven...”.

Before you ask for anything, you must know whose family you belong to. You are adopted into His family through the Messiah (Ephesians 1:5), where there is no longer a division between Jew and Gentile (Galatians 3:28).

The Identity Test: If you are truly born of God, His seed remains in you and you refuse to practice sin (1 John 3:9). If you continue to practice sin (lawlessness), you reveal you are a child of the devil, not a child of God (1 John 3:10).

2.Revere His Set-Apart Identity:“Hallowed be Your name...”.

To hallow means to set apart and treat with absolute reverence. You cannot hold His name in high regard while treating His identity carelessly.

  • The Command: You shall not misuse or bring the name of Yehovah and His son Yeshua to nothing, for He will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses it (Exodus 20:7).

  • The Question: Scripture challenges us in Proverbs 30:4: "What is His name or His Son's name? Surely you know." You must know and revere the true identity of the Father and the Son.

3.Submit to the True Gospel:“Your kingdom come...”.

The focus of the "good news" that Yeshua and the apostles preached goes beyond just the foundational payment for our sins—He came as a messenger from the Father announcing a literal, ruling government. To pray for His Kingdom means you are inviting the ultimate end of human systems and the visible, physical rule of the Messiah on this earth.

4.Execute the Constitutional Law:“Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”.

The Father’s will is not a mystery; it is explicitly written down. His will is perfectly obeyed in heaven, and it must be physically practiced on earth through the two greatest commandments (Matthew 22:36-40):

  1. Love Yehovah with all your heart, soul, and mind.

  2. Love your neighbor as yourself.

“All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”—You cannot do His will while discarding His Torah.

5.Feed on Every Spoken Word:“Give us this day our daily bread.”.

This step covers far more than physical sustenance. Your daily life cannot be sustained by physical food alone. To truly survive, your spirit must ingest, digest, and apply every single word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4).

6.Sow the Mercy You Expect to Reap:“And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”.

Your personal forgiveness is completely conditional. If you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will remove your transgressions as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12).

But if you refuse to forgive, harbor bitterness, or keep a tally of offenses beyond completion (Matthew 18:21-27), the Father will deliver you to the tormentors and withhold His mercy from you (Matthew 6:14-15).

7.Guard Your Feet from Temptation:“And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”.

This is a daily plea for rescue from the traps of the adversary and the pull of the sinful flesh. It is a commitment to not yield to the pressure of the world, choosing instead to let the Holy Spirit control your mind so you can actively identify and flee from the devil's work.

8.Declare Absolute, Exclusive Allegiance:“For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.”.

The prayer concludes by stripping away all other authorities, modern idols, and human traditions. It anchors your loyalty completely to the first commandments given at Sinai: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" (Exodus 20:3-5). All power, all government, and all glory belong exclusively to Yehovah.

 

The Blueprint Summary: How you pray reflects how you live. If your daily lifestyle ignores the Father's Law, misuses His name, holds grudges, or blends with the world, your prayers are just empty babble. True prayer is the alignment of your feet to the narrow path of the Kingdom.

 

 Our Father in heaven, 5 God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Yeshua messiah. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. Ephesians 1:5 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Yeshua. Galatians 3:28  

 

7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.

 

9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.1John3:

 

 Hallowed be Your name.

 Exodus 20:7 “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for Yehovah will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

 Who has ascended into heaven and descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists?

 Who has wrapped the waters in His garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name or His Son's name? Surely you know. Proverbs 30:4

 

10 Your kingdom come.

Many would be shocked to find out that the Bible defines the gospel differently than what they have always been told. A thorough reading shows that accepting Christ's blood in payment for our sins—as foundationally important as it is—is not the focus of the "good news" that He brought and that the apostles continued to preach. In addition to dying for our sins, Yeshua came to earth as a messenger from Yehovah the Father:

May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:10

 

 Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 

  1. “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

  2. Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:36-40 

 

  1. Give us this day our daily bread. 

But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Matthew 4:4

 

  1. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? …Matthew 18:21-27,34 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: …Matthew 6:14,15 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12  

 

  1. And do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from the evil one. And don’t let us yield to temptation but rescue us from the evil one. Luke 11

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Matthew 6:9-13  Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:3-5

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