“Give us this day our daily bread” Matt. 6:11
Jesus, in the “Lord’s prayer,” gave His disciples a pattern for daily fellowship with God in prayer.
Once we’ve given up our plans and rights and have submitted ourselves to God’s rule in our lives we have the right to look to God for His provision of our needs.
Jesus promises that in Matthew 6:33 that we “seek first his kingdom and his righteousness all these things (i.e. our daily needs) will be given as well.”
We pray and ask God for our “daily needs,” i.e. “for this day,” or “for the coming day.” Life as a follower of Jesus is a life of dependence on God. As an expression of that dependence, God calls us to live one day at a time. We pray to our Father in heaven and say, “God, here is what I need today…”
I often hear people say, “God helps those who help themselves.” But the Bible teaches just the opposite. God helps those who can’t help themselves—the weak, the powerless, the helpless.
Growing in the knowledge of God means becoming more and more dependent on Him. A simple test we can use to see how much we are depending on him is to ask ourselves, “What am I worrying about?” Our answer to that question reveals those areas where we are having trouble trusting God.
Those areas are what we pray about, the “daily bread” we are instructed to ask God for. Pray, make your requests and wait for God’s answers.
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