PRAYING FOR DAILY BREAD (5 OF 8)
Scripture: Matthew 6:25-34
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Praying for Daily Bread (5 of 8)
Series: Talking to God
Jonathan McLeod
Matthew 6:25-34
''Give us this day our daily bread'' (Matt. 6:11).
GOD-DEPENDENT
We want our children to learn how to be self-dependent. We don't want them phoning home when they're 30, asking how to boil water. Self-dependence (to a certain degree) is a good thing, but we can never become totally self-dependent. In reality, we are all God-dependent. You might think you're being self-dependent by growing your own food, but were did the seeds come from? Who caused the sun to shine and the rain to fall?
The fourth petition of the Lord's Prayer is ''Give us this day our daily bread.'' When we ask God to give us our daily bread, we are acknowledging our dependence on him.
[Read Matthew 6:25-34.]
NEEDS, NOT GREEDS
Our ''daily bread'' stands for the necessities of life (e.g., food, water, clothing, shelter). We are to pray for our needs, not our greeds. There are many things that many of us consider needs that aren't actually necessities (e.g., Wi-Fi). Sometimes we don't receive because we don't ask: ''You do not have, because you do not ask'' (James 4:2). Sometimes we don't receive because we ask for things we don't need: ''You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly'' (James 4:2-3). When we pray for something, we should ask ourselves, ''If God granted my request, how would it bring glory to him?''
Most people wish they were rich, but being rich isn't always a good thing. ''Those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils'' (1 Tim. 6:10). A large percentage of pe ...
Series: Talking to God
Jonathan McLeod
Matthew 6:25-34
''Give us this day our daily bread'' (Matt. 6:11).
GOD-DEPENDENT
We want our children to learn how to be self-dependent. We don't want them phoning home when they're 30, asking how to boil water. Self-dependence (to a certain degree) is a good thing, but we can never become totally self-dependent. In reality, we are all God-dependent. You might think you're being self-dependent by growing your own food, but were did the seeds come from? Who caused the sun to shine and the rain to fall?
The fourth petition of the Lord's Prayer is ''Give us this day our daily bread.'' When we ask God to give us our daily bread, we are acknowledging our dependence on him.
[Read Matthew 6:25-34.]
NEEDS, NOT GREEDS
Our ''daily bread'' stands for the necessities of life (e.g., food, water, clothing, shelter). We are to pray for our needs, not our greeds. There are many things that many of us consider needs that aren't actually necessities (e.g., Wi-Fi). Sometimes we don't receive because we don't ask: ''You do not have, because you do not ask'' (James 4:2). Sometimes we don't receive because we ask for things we don't need: ''You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly'' (James 4:2-3). When we pray for something, we should ask ourselves, ''If God granted my request, how would it bring glory to him?''
Most people wish they were rich, but being rich isn't always a good thing. ''Those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils'' (1 Tim. 6:10). A large percentage of pe ...
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