Daily Bread
Bottomline: Praying give us this day our daily bread is a bold proclamation of faith and surrender in God to provide what you need in His way not your own.
“ ‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, s
but deliver us from the evil one.’
Give me neither poverty nor riches!
Give me just enough to satisfy my needs.
For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, Who is the Lord? And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God ’s holy name.
Gut check- Does your lifestyle lend itself to a surrender of trust and dependency to God?
7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
God will always answer our prayers; but he will answer them in his way, and his way will be the way of perfect wisdom and of perfect love.