THE LORD'S PRAYER - Part 4: Petition God for our Needs
"GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD." Matthew 6:11 We are dependent on the Lord and He wants us to come to Him with our needs and requests. 'BREAD" is symbolic of any need we have. PETITION is humbly making a formal request or supplication to one in authority, and in this case the authority is our Father God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit. God meets our needs DAILY AND MIRACULOUSLY. Just as quail covered the Israeli compound in the evenings, manna glistened like fine frost in the mornings. Meat for dinner! Bread for breakfast! The food fell everday. God had resources they knew nothing about . Solutions outside their reality, provisions outside their possibility. THEY SAW PROBLEMS! GOD SAW POSSIBILITIES! THE SAME CAN BE TRUE FOR US TODAY! HOW DO YOU PETITION THE LORD? You are to come to the Lord in a CHILDLIKE FAITH with your SPECIFIC REQUESTS, knowing how muc...