When Jesus was asked by his disciples to teach them to pray, He does not just teach them what to pray, but He gives them a model of how they should pray. After He teaches them to address God as "Our Father," He says the next thing that we should be concerned about, is that God's name would be hallowed. What does it mean to hallowed God's name? It means that we, as His children, would be concerned that God's name would be kept holy. It means, that we would live in such a way that our life will line up with God's holiness.

The Lord's Prayer is such a familiar prayer to so many people, maybe so familiar that we never stop and think what it is, that we actually pray. When Jesus gives us the privilege to call God, Our Father, it comes with many implications. One: we are no longer strangers or children of the devil. Two: we have been saved into a family. The Christian life is not just about me and Christ but it is about Christ and us.

In our day, we hardly ever hear anything about fasting, but interestingly enough, Jesus assumed the fasting would be part of our Christian life. So He warns us, that when we do fast, we should do it in such a way, where we don't draw attention to our self. Fasting can be abstaining from food or anything good for a period of time for the purpose of seeking after God, whether it is in prayer, or the reading of His word.

As Christians, we know that we should pray, but to some degree or another, we all struggle with prayer. Wherever we may be on that spectrum, Jesus warns us that when we pray, whether public or private, we must do a careful examination to make sure that we are praying to God our Father in heaven. And not to ourselves or to people that might be present. We are not to be like the hypocrites, who pray fancy words, but do not really mean them, we are not to be like the Gentiles, who say many words, thinking they will be heard because of it.

Giving should be a part of our life as Christians. We have been given much by God, therefore, we should be a giving people. Giving consist of, our money, our time, our service, our talent, or helping neighbors who are in need. As Christians we stand with an open hand, for God to give to us, we need to be ready and willing with an open hand to give to others as well. Giving is the first of the three elements that Jesus assumes will be part of our every day life.