Kingdom Principle: We are to pray that God would supply our daily necessities, trusting that God will use our hard work to provide what we need.
Psalm 6:5 – “For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?”
Psalm 30:9 – “What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?”
“No song comes up from that dark charnel house, no praise ascends to God from those that are asleep.” -Charles Spurgeon
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We are _____________________ on ____________ for our Daily Bread
Luke 11:2–3 (ESV) — 2 And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. 3 Give us each day our daily bread…
God provides for the physical sustenance of his people. And he does so through the world he created.
Psalm 104:1-35
Richard Coekin, in his book on the Lord’s Prayer, tells the story of a wealthy and generous Christian businessman he knows who lost a fortune in the Enron scandal. Reflecting on where he had worked and all that he had lost, through no fault of his own, the man remarked, “I have repeatedly acknowledged to God that my wealth comes from him. I’ve asked that, if at any point he thought it would be spiritually better for me not to have it, he would please take it away. I trust that this is what he has done and I am content with that.” Asking for daily bread reminds us that godliness with contentment is great gain (1 Tim. 6:6).
Genesis 3:19 (ESV) — 19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
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We are ____________________ on ________ __________ for our Daily Bread
Genesis 3:19 (ESV) — 19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
In the normal means of God’s providence, He supplies our daily needs through the work we do to maintain and cultivate our “gardens”.
Genesis 2:15 (ESV) — 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
Anything worth having is the product of hard work.
Prov. 6:6-11
1 Corinthians 3:5–7 (ESV) — 5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
We are ultimately dependent on God to provide us with our daily bread, but God provides that daily bread through our labor and toil.
2Thes. 3:6-12
Questions to Consider
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In what ways is God providing for your needs?
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Are you content with the daily necessities that God has given you? What might you do with your abundance?
