Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread | Matt 6:11 and Matt 7:7-11 | Ian Goodman
A supplementary passage is Matt 7:7-11.
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Of the four basic types of prayer - adoration, contrition, thanksgiving, and supplication (or wow, sorry, thank you, please) we are probably all most familiar with the last, supplication! Or asking for stuff! There isn’t anything really wrong with this, but with this kind of prayer there are some things that can go wrong. James 4 says we can ask with bad motives, and there are no doubt other ways that asking God for stuff can go wrong. So in order to ask rightly we need to let the rest of the Lord’s prayer guide us in the way we ask.
We should first remember that God is our Father, who loves us and will bless us as a Father does. If even evil Fathers know how to give good gifts to their children, how much more will our heavenly Father give good gifts to us? We should also remember that our Father is “in heaven” that He is almighty and sovereign over the whole earth. These truths should fill us with confidence when coming to God in prayer.
We should also be humble in prayer. Jesus teaches us to be this way by teaching us first to pray “Your kingdom come, Your will be done.” We are taught to “hallow” God’s name. This means being humble in prayer and submitting ourselves to His will whatever it might be.
Lastly we are taught to be dependent in prayer. We are instructed to come daily, for our daily bread. The safest and most secure place we can be is daily dependent on God for our needs. We are tempted to think the opposite, that the more independent we are the more secure we are. But we need to remember that the most secure people in the world are not the wealthy, but it’s children of loving parents. We are the children of the most loving Parent, so we can feel very secure being daily dependent on Him.
Bible Text: Matt 6:11 and Matt 7:7-11 | Preacher: Ian Goodman | Series: The Lord’s prayer | Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread | Matt 6:11 and Matt 7:7-11 | Ian Goodman
A supplementary passage is Matt 7:7-11.
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Of the four basic types of prayer – adoration, contrition, thanksgiving, and supplication (or wow, sorry, thank you, please) we are probably all most familiar with the last, supplication! Or asking for stuff! There isn’t anything really wrong with this, but with this kind of prayer there are some things that can go wrong. James 4 says we can ask with bad motives, and there are no doubt other ways that asking God for stuff can go wrong. So in order to ask rightly we need to let the rest of the Lord’s prayer guide us in the way we ask.
We should first remember that God is our Father, who loves us and will bless us as a Father does. If even evil Fathers know how to give good gifts to their children, how much more will our heavenly Father give good gifts to us? We should also remember that our Father is “in heaven” that He is almighty and sovereign over the whole earth. These truths should fill us with confidence when coming to God in prayer.
We should also be humble in prayer. Jesus teaches us to be this way by teaching us first to pray “Your kingdom come, Your will be done.” We are taught to “hallow” God’s name. This means being humble in prayer and submitting ourselves to His will whatever it might be.
Lastly we are taught to be dependent in prayer. We are instructed to come daily, for our daily bread. The safest and most secure place we can be is daily dependent on God for our needs. We are tempted to think the opposite, that the more independent we are the more secure we are. But we need to remember that the most secure people in the world are not the wealthy, but it’s children of loving parents. We are the children of the most loving Parent, so we can feel very secure being daily dependent on Him.