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We continue this morning on the topic of prayer.
I will never forget a Summer Bible study that some friends and I started at my parents house.
We were home from college for the Summer and started to me and study the word together.
Before the study started a few of us got the idea to do some prayer working through our community.
We all gathered at my parents house and were preparing to leave.
My sister JoHana was 6 or 7 years old and she heard that we were going to prayer walk.
She started doing what little sisters do she began to beg to go with us.
I tried to shrug it off.
I said we are walking and praying.
It won’t be fun.
It will be boring.
You are not going to like it.
What do you think her response was?
I want to go
I finally after some back and forth decided to let her go.
I said fine you can go.
We got to the spot where we were walking and praying.
My friends and I were praying some beautiful prayers.
They sounded so amazing and so religious.
Lord break down the bondage of sin behind those doors
Lord share you wonderful, matchless love to the people in these homes
Lord save our city bring repentance and revival.
We just kept praying and praying.
We ran out of big pretty words to say.
So 6 or 7 year old JoHana started in.
She prayed, “Lord thank you for the trees, Lord I like that bunny rabbit right there, thank you for the bunny rabbit, It is nice outside Lord, thank you, Lord the flowers are so pretty, thank you”
Her prayers were so simple and yet so moving and so powerful.
When I read the Lord’s prayer
we get to verse 11 of this model prayer.
Jesus says give us today our daily bread.
Today I want us to talk about daily bread prayers.
As I thought about daily bread prayers, JoHana’s example of praying that day was a beautiful example of a daily bread prayer.
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We have looked at Defiant Adoration Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name
Your name be honored as Holy, set apart, consecrate as Holy, or dedicate.
To honor God’s name reminds us of who God is and how GREAT God is.
Your Kingdom come, your will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven.
We have spent a significant amount of time talking about the Kingdom of heaven coming to earth.
Jesus here in the model prayer prays that the Kingdom of heaven and God’s will for heaven would be carried out on earth.
Then Jesus prays Give us today our daily bread
The book Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools says this,
The hinge point of Jesus’ instructive, exemplary prayer is the phrase “on earth as it is in heaven.”
Two claims are hidden in this turn of phrase.
The first is that heaven is the engine room for our prayers.
Everything we can think to ask for finds its source in heaven.
The second claim is that earth, the very ground we stand on while uttering our requests, is where the action happens.
Daily Bread prayers are grounded in simple language.
They are the here and now prayers.
This word for Daily is not found anywhere else.
Lots of Discussion around this word
Daily:
(a) ‘For the day (in question)’, hence daily, possibly with a reminiscence of the daily provision of manna in the wilderness.
(b) ‘Necessary’ for survival, ‘feed me with the food that is needful for me’; in the account-book fragment it probably referred to a daily ‘ration’.
Daily bread prayers are inviting God into the concerns of today
What I’ll eat, who I’ll meet, what I’ll do, what I’ll wear, and how I feel about it all along the way.
It is easy to reduce prayer down to only the big things we need from God...
Praying for the person with cancer, a job change, should we move, who do you want me to date or marry, God I need more money, or God be with my children in the big decisions.
Daily bread prayers are the everyday concern.
It is the simple things.
These daily prayers help us to know God more.
Daily Bread Prayers lead to a closer relationship with the Lord
They create intimacy or closeness to God.
They draw God and you closer together.
Imagine in a marriage relationship if the married couple only talks about the big things and never speaks about the small daily things.
Don’t you love it when someone doesn’t come to you when the problem is small.
They wait until the problem is big then they come to you.
Think about your children.
You don’t want them to wait until their problem is big and out of control to come to you.
You want them to come when the problem is routine or daily.
Daily Bread prayers are coming to the Lord in the everyday moments.
It is the daily interaction that draws us closer together.
Daily Bread prayers are to pray constantly or without ceasing
I like the example of Abraham’s prayer on behalf of Sodom and Gomorrah.
You can see how this prayer brings Abraham closer to the Lord
Look at the closeness that is developed in this prayer before the Lord.
Abraham learns that God is approachable and can be questioned
Abraham learns God’s heart to save the righteous
God welcomes Abraham’s questioning
God accepts Abraham
Daily Bread prayers battle against control.
We want to be in control.
We want to be in control of our day, our time, and our future.
It is this desire of control that causes us to be exhausted, overwhelmed, and constantly anxious.
We feel it is our responsibility to make the world go round.
We must ensure that we make all the right decisions daily in order to get the perfect outcome.
Notice how Jesus phrases this in Matthew 6:11
He says give us.
For someone else to give the daily bread means that you are not in control when you get it.
Someone else that being the CREATOR of the universe is in control to supply you with the daily bread that you need.
Daily Bread prayers are a reminder that we are not in charge and we are not in control.
Daily Bread prayers empower us.
In some cases, daily bread prayers empower us to be the answer to the prayers we pray.
Prayers throughout scripture move the heart of the father.
In Genesis 19 at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah we see that Lot is saved from the destruction that takes place.
He was in the city.
Abraham interceded on behalf of the city and said Father if there are 10 left will you spare the city.
God does not spare the city.
He rains down sulfur and this is what scripture says
We are tempted to not pray daily bread prayers because we don’t really think it matters.
We think that all the decisions have been made and so our prayers before the Lord don’t matter.
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