Hallowed be your name: Seek to honor God by the way you live. Do more than just say words of adoration about Him. Surrender every part of your life to Him and do your best to obey what He calls you to do. Ask God to help you become aware of your own sinfulness. Acknowledge your failures, confess your sins, and repent. Then pursue holiness. Aim for higher standards – God’s standards. Let the knowledge of your sin show you how much you need God’s grace and motivate you to draw closer to Him. Acknowledge that it’s God’s holiness that enables you to be fulfilled. His holiness empowers you to see the shortsightedness of secularism, the poverty of profanity, and the futility of immorality. As you hallow God’s name, He confronts everything destructive and poisonous within you. Never allow yourself to become complacent; keep pursuing more holiness every day of your life.

Your kingdom come: Participate in God’s kingdom rather than retreating into your own. Invite God not to partner with your life, but to come and rule your life. Let go of your own agenda and pursue God’s plans for you, trusting that the One who created you knows what’s best for you. Surrender your values to embrace God’s values, submit your will to His, and cede your ambition in favor of God’s purposes. Ask God to humble you so you can know Him better. Realize that you can’t build your private empire and God’s eternal kingdom at the same time. So hold loosely to your own achievements and allegiances. Remember that you don’t work for yourself or by yourself; you serve God as He works through you.

Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven: Seek to do God’s will rather than your own will when you make decisions every day. Ask God to transform your willfulness into willingness. Remember that God wants what’s best for you. Tell Him that you want what He wants, and receive what He gives. Don’t worry about trying to discover the details of the future God has planned for you. Entrust all the details to God and simply make a habit of following where God leads you every day. Discard your fantasies of perfect people and situations, and, instead, direct your energy to loving the people you actually know and working out the real situations you encounter. Affirm your desire for God’s purposes instead of just your own fantasies. Don’t be so preoccupied with your plans for the future that you don’t notice God with you in each present moment. As you live in His presence, you live in His will. As you have the courage to pray for God’s will to be done, your prayer will help you develop a purity of heart that will transform you into the person God wants you to become. If you’re willing to undergo anything to know God more, your passion will lead to wonderful work that God will do in you, through you, and with you.