Our Daily Bread
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· 3 viewsTo often we want more then we need and in the end Christ has taught us that we must learn to pray for our daily needs and not our wants.
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I Want a Cheese Burger!
I Want a Cheese Burger!
Tell the story of wanting a cheese burger.
11 Give us today the food we need,
Jesus is telling us two important things here.
Request God to supply our needs not our greeds.
We really don’t need that extra cup of coffee or that third donut. Or how about this one. That raise God has blessed you with, maybe you could use some of it to help those in need. See really God wants you to become more dependent on Source which is Him, and not on the substance which is the things he supplies for us daily.
One of the most beautiful examples of this is when God supplied the needs of the Israelites in the wilderness particularly the food. remember it was over 3 million of them and God supplies all of their needs daily.
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Look, I’m going to rain down food from heaven for you. Each day the people can go out and pick up as much food as they need for that day. I will test them in this to see whether or not they will follow my instructions.
This is a beautiful illustration of God taking care of us as His people. We all need shelter to protect us from the elements, we all need food to keep us nourished for the day and we all need clothes on our back to protect us from the cold. Jesus says in the parable about how God will take care of all our needs.
26 Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? 27 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? 28 “And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, 29 yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are. 30 And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith? 31 “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ 32 These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. 33 Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.
See it isn’t that God is saying you don’t need to work, of course you need to work.
10 Even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “Those unwilling to work will not get to eat.”
But more importantly what God wants you to understand is that He gives you the strength to work! See it all goes back to God and the faith we have in Him.
The second point is we need to be seeking God daily, Jesus said He is the bread of life.
35 Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
Listen too many people are chasing after things that will parish and blow away with the wind, when really as a believer we need to be chasing after God. My friends you need to be digging into God through His wonderful Word He gave us to fill us up with His love, joy and peace. And then through our time with Him in prayer and thanksgiving.
If you don’t feed on God daily my friend you will become malnourished spiritually and that is even more harmful then not feeding our physical bodies.
Take some time each day to spend reading and studying God’s Word as well as praying it will fill you up fully.
103 How sweet your words taste to me; they are sweeter than honey.
In Hebrew culture Rabbi’s put honey on a slate in which the young students lick the honey off of the slate to signify the sweet taste of the Words of God, embracing all that is said to be good. We must learn as well that as the psalmist wrote all that God has said there to fill us up daily is good, helping us to see the goodness of God and the Words to encourage us to live a Christ centered life dependent on Him.
See summarize it all up, it’s not about having too much or too little of things, It’s about having just enough and knowing that God will for the day fill us up when we pray and ask for these things from Him, through Him and In Him. And this my friend is what we need to not become trapped into this World’s system.