Scripture: Mt 6:11

Give us this day our daily bread ---Mt 6:11

Therefore, do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.--- Mt 6:8

Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. ---Jn 16:24

You do not have because you do not ask. ---Jas 4:2

Do not be anxious ... but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. ---Php 4:6

Thrust: Pray for our needs not for our greeds.

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I. Give Us

Whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.---Mt 21:22

Test Me... and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. --- Mal 3:10

A. Plead Simply

For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. --- Mt 6:8

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that." But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. --- Jas 4:13-16

B. Plead Sensibly

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. --- Jas 1:17

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend on what you get on your pleasures. --- Jas 4:3

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II. This Day

This day (semeron): constant and consistent; every day, day after day.

Manna enough for the day

A. Present Sufficiency

Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry. Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?... Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes… ---Lk 12:19-20, 23

Do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such things, and Your Father knows that you need them. But seek His Kingdom and these things will be given to you as well. --- Lk 12:29-31

B. Present Satisfaction

Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, "Who is the Lord?" Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonour the name of my God. --- Pro 30:8-9

Father, give me what I need for today so I may hallow Your name, stay grateful to You, and thank You for Your provision. I want to be fully dependent on You.

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Sinc eyou cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest? --- Lk 12:25-26

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III. Our Daily Bread

A. Our

• Plural pronoun
• Determiner

B. Daily

• Daily (epiousion)
• Pray for what we need to live for today

Don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. --- Mt 6:34

... today and tomorrow we will go into such and such a town, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain! ... we are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. If the Lord wills, we shall live and shall do this or that. --- Jas 4:13-15

C. Bread

• contextually
• Manna: small, round substance, as fine as frost ... like white coriander seed and tastes like wafers made with honey.
• Symbolically

Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. I am the living bread that comes down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. --- Jn 6:49-51

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Summing Up

1. When we pray, Give Us, we say a simple, sincere, sensibly prayer with no thoughts of entitlement. We come as needy people, depending on God.

2. When we pray, This Day, we admit we're finite and can't see what lies ahead tomorrow. We ask for sufficiency and satisfaction day-by-day.

3. When we pray, for Our Daily Bread, we humbly claim our supply for the day. Even as people of means with more, we recognize our ability to work and to live comes from God.

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Challenge

1. Come to Abba Father in total dependence on Him. Tell Him you trust and obey Him. Then, believe with Paul, "God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Php 4:19).

2. Come and feast on the Bread of Life. Jesus says: Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. He is the Word made flesh and dwells among us. Hunger for the Living Bread. Thirst for the Living Water. Come and have a re-encoutner with the Bread of Life to experience life, and life MORE ABUNDANTLY.