Give Us This Day

Reverend Lonnie C. Crowe

 

"In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. for Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.”

(Notes from the One New Man Bible:) “We can only speak this way to God, saying, “You must” as Yeshua is teaching, when we are in a covenant relationship with Him.”

Through the covenant we have with God, sealed with the shed blood of Jesus Christ, each of us is saying, “Everything I have is Yours.  God responds, “Everything I have is yours.”

(Notes from the One New Man Bible:) “We are to appropriate His promises as well as keep His commandments. This means salvation, but more than that, it brings in all of His promises.  This means that healing is salvation in a physical sense, and deliverance is there as well.”

What is our daily bread?

What is necessary for our existence?

What is our source?

Remember Philippians 4:19: And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Food:

Exodus 16:14-15,31,35: ‘And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the wilderness, was a small round substance, as fine as frost on the ground. So when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?'' For they did not know what it was. And the house of Israel called its name Manna. And it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.’

Psalm 37:25: “ I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread.”

Water:

Exodus 17:4-6: So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, "What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me!''  And the Lord said to Moses, "Go on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Also take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river, and go.  "Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.'' And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Genesis 21:15-19: And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs. Then she went and sat down across from him at a distance of about a bowshot; for she said to herself, "Let me not see the death of the boy.'' So she sat opposite him, and lifted her voice and wept.  And God heard the voice of the lad.

Then the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.  "Arise, lift up the lad and hold him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.'' And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. Then she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink.

Air:

Genesis 2:7: And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Job 33: 4:  The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Shelter:

Psalm 27:5. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle, He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.

Psalm 91:1-2: He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.  I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.''

God provides not only our physical needs, but our spiritual needs as well.

Jesus is our spiritual food:

John 6:32-35: Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. "For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.'' Then they said to Him, "Lord, give us this bread always.''  And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

Jesus is our spiritual water:

John 7:37-39: On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.  "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.''

Jesus is our spiritual breath:

Genesis 2: 7.  And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

John 20:22. And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.”

Jesus is our spiritual shelter:

Proverbs 18:10. The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

Never forget Matthew 6: 26.  "Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Praise God!  My God shall supply all my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

God’s supply never runs out.

Lamentations 3:22-24: Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.  They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.  "The Lord is my portion,'' says my soul, "Therefore I hope in Him!''