Give us this day our daily bread

🛐 Daily Prayer: "If we follow you, if you lead us into a desert, you will cover our path with manna."

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SpurgeonBooks
June 17, 2024

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

This week, we’ll continue praying through the Lord’s Prayer. Next week, we’ll highlight a different theme. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, give us day by day our daily bread. Provide for your poor people, let them not think that the provision for themselves rests fully on themselves; but may they cry to you, for you have said, “his food provided, his water assured” (Isaiah 33:16). If we follow you, if you lead us into a desert, you will cover our path with manna. May your people believe this and let them have no care, but like the birds of the air which neither sow nor gather into barns, and yet are fed, so may your people be.

But, above all, give us spiritual help. Give us wisdom, which is profitable to get. Give us the absence of all self-seeking, and a complete yielding up of our desires to the will of God. Help us to be as Christ was, who was not his own, but gave himself to his Father for our sins; so may we for his sake give ourselves up to do or suffer the will of our Father who is in heaven.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Give us today our daily bread.” (Matthew 6:11)

We request no more than bread, or the food that is necessary for us. Our petition concerns the day, and asks only for a daily supply; bread enough for this day. We ask not for bread which belongs to others, but only for that which is honestly our own—“our daily bread.” It is the prayer of a lowly and contented mind, of one who is so sanctified that he waits upon God even about his daily food, and of one who lovingly links others with himself in his sympathy and prayer.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

God hears your prayers, not because you’re good enough (but because Jesus is)

Jesus taught us the Lord’s Prayer, because we need to be taught how to pray. It isn’t automatic. A great, refreshing book that has really strengthened my prayer life A Praying Life by Paul Miller. This book makes clear that our only hope of acceptable prayers is the blood of Jesus.

A Praying Life is a great, encouraging book on Christian prayer. Reading this book has cultivated Scripture-saturated prayers of childlike faith in my life. Miller describes prayer in a way that is thoroughly biblical and incredibly desirable.

I hope A Praying Life will help you deepen your prayer life this summer.