MODEL PRAYER: DAILY BREAD COMES FROM GOD.

Matthew 6:9-13
⁹ “This, then, is how you should pray: “‘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, but deliver us from the evil one.


The next phrase that I have been meditating on is the phrase "Give us this day our daily bread". As we lay before God in prayer, our hearts are steadfast and dependent on the Lord for His daily supply. 


This portion of the model prayer is intended to remind us that we should thank God daily for His awesome provision in our lives. Many times, we are guilty of coming to God when we are in a place of absolute despair. It seems that we are only interested in getting "relief" when we are jammed up by the enemy we have been associating with. How ungrateful we and petty we must seem to a good God who desires to bless us daily with every good and perfect gift.


God desires the best for us and stands ready to bestow daily provision upon us and the only thing standing in our way is our own self-centeredness. The Lord wants us to open up our hearts to His way and love, but if we desire to go our own way, then God will allow us to do so and allow us to reap the ill benefits of our that path. The best thing that we can do is to acknowledge that the source of our daily blessing and needs is the Lord God Himself. Who better to give us what we need?

Give us this day our daily bread. As we ask God for these blessings, we are placing ourselves under the care, protection, and providing hands of the Lord. Just as God provided for the needs of His children in the wilderness when there seemed to be no way, He will take care of us. The God Who caused manna and quail to come down and water to flow from the rock will bless us. Hopefully we will not be like those ungrateful people who complained against the blessings of God. But, let us instead thank Him and receive with grateful hearts what He gives us. I know that I need to depend on Him more and myself less. That's what I have been thinking.....