24 November 2020

Prayer 08 - Give us each day our daily bread

 

A series of meditations on prayer

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The 1st Medetation Prayer 01 - Why should a believer pray?

The Previous Medetation: Prayer 07 -Our Father in heaven

The next Meditation: (will be published soon)



Prayer 08

Give us each day our daily bread.

Phil. 4 v 6 HCSB

Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

 

While we are still living on earth, we need our daily bread, that is, our livelihood. Therefore, the Lord teaches us to come to Him in prayer with our daily needs and pray for them. Anyone who believes in the salvation of Jesus Christ can come to our Father with confidence in his daily needs.

 

When we pray for our daily bread, it is a request that includes much more than just bread. We hereby pray for everything we need for our daily subsistence such as health, clothing, food, work, compensation for our labor and the proceeds thereof.

 

This prayer does not mean that we should just sit back and wait for our daily bread to appear miraculously. No, we are asking for the possibility of providing for our livelihood through our work, because even that is only grace.

 

With this we acknowledge, our deep dependence on our Father's care because He is the only Source of all that is good and that His gifts without His blessing will benefit us nothing.

 

Furthermore, we also confess our childlike trust in the care of our Father and that we thereby deprive our trust of all creatures and place it on Him alone.

 

In this prayer we also ask that the Lord will give us what we need without being consumed by worries or greed for more than we need. But with this prayer we also reach in expectation beyond the bread need of the time to the abundance of eternity.

 

Pray and work for your daily bread, while silently expecting everything from your Father in faith, until He will make everything new on the new earth where there will be no more hunger or worry.

Amen

 

 


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