Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Message #3 in the series: The Lord's Prayer Matthew 6:5-13 ( look it up here ) What are you asking God for? What is on your prayer list? What feeds you physically? What feeds your soul? As we started the Lord’s Prayer, we were reminded that it is to God, our loving Father, to whom we pray. Our first responsibility is to lift up His name, not only as we pray, but in our obedience to Him. We appropriately “hallow” His name by behaving like Him. When we ask for His Kingdom to come, we voluntarily set ourselves under His rule – in every aspect of our lives. Finally, after we have properly situated ourselves in this context, we are ready to ask for something for ourselves. Remember that this is the context in which we begin to make requests for our needs. We ask for God to give us this day our daily bread . In the biblical context, bread is the staple food. It stands as a synonym for food itself as the symbol for everything needed to sustain physical life. Simply put, we ask Go...