Sermon: Give us this day, our daily bread Date: October 19 Scripture: Matthew 6:11, Mathew 7:9-11 Speaker: George Veith There many ways you can focus your prayer i.e., worship, thanksgiving, confession, consecration. Jesus teaches us that we should focus at least a part of our prayer time in petitioning or asking God to meet our needs, referring to the phrase ”daily bread.” In thehistorical context of this passage, the people to whom Jesus was speaking would have been poor, with no safety net. Less than 10% of the population had the economic standing to have the luxury of surplus. ‘Give us this day our daily bread’; reminds us that our natural longings, for bread and all that it symbolizes, are not to be shunned as though they were of themselves lessimportant. It also reminds us that our prayers of petition move beyond the individual and towards the communal needs as the prayer is rendered in the plural of “us” and “our”. Finally, this prayer for daily bread points us beyond only physical hunger to the spiritual hunger thatafflicts many in our modern day. Jesus said he is “the bread of life”(Jn 6:35)— and in his body broken we discover the place where we can come with our physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual needs, and lay them before the God to whom all desires are known.Desired Outcome: To learn to come to Jesus in prayer with our personal and communal needs— and to trust Him to provide for daily bread.