So pull it all together. “Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, on earth as it is in heaven.” “Name” equals character, attributes, personality, glory, fame, reputation. Name means who God is and what God is like. “Hallowed”: holy-fy, treat as holy, honor, exalt, magnify, glorify. Hallowed means reveal, manifest, make known, make real. Thus we might pray, “Father in heaven—Father of our Lord Jesus, our own Father—make real your character and magnify your name on earth as it is in heaven. Father, make yourself real on earth as you are real in heaven; enhance your reputation in all the earth.”
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