Monday, October 20, 2025
This week in our series on The Lord’s Prayer, titled “Pray Like This,” Pastor Jim preached on verse 11 of the Lord’s Prayer, Give us today our daily bread. Matthew 6:11 The Lord’s prayer is a model Jesus gave us to help us pray in the right way – a way that will help us live and look more and more like him every day. Our key truth for this series is, “To pray like Jesus prayed is to see like Jesus saw, trust like Jesus trusted, and live like Jesus lived.”
When we have a personal, growing relationship with Jesus, we can understand how prayer makes all things possible. Jesus taught that God will meet our daily needs. Prayer makes all things possible in the life of a believer so there are no impossible prayers. Whatever feels impossible to us is never impossible in God’s eyes. We often get caught up in our “big” prayer requests, forgetting about asking God to provide for the daily needs we have until it is an emergency. But God wants us to come to him every day for our needs – all our needs. He provides basic needs, but he also provides the “daily bread” we need for our hearts and minds.
Before we believe God will give us our “daily bread,” we have to know why we can depend on him and the beginning of this model prayer tells us:
Our Father in heaven (He is our heavenly father),
Your name be honored as holy. (He is holy)
Your kingdom come. (The reign and rule of Jesus over all the earth and in our lives)
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. (When we surrender to His will for our lives, it will be done)
Jesus said we should open our prayer declaring who God is and remembering why we can trust him. This helps us grasp the reality of God’s goodness and faithfulness in our own personal lives. He calls us to go to God alone for our daily needs and we know we can trust him because he is trustworthy, faithful, and sovereign.
How are we to have a proper understanding of asking God to meet our daily needs?
God wants us to depend on him. For every animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a
thousand hills. Psalm 50:10 God has infinite resources and as his children, those resources are for us. There is not a need we will have that he cannot meet, and he does not want us to depend on anything or anyone else. When we pray asking him to meet our daily needs, it is an honest declaration of our dependence on him, and we can depend on him always. James 1:17 says Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. This means he doesn’t provide one day and decide he doesn’t want to the next day. He is the same, never changing and giving perfect gifts to his children always.
God wants us to humble ourselves to come before him every day. We are to come to God humbly to ask him to meet our needs. Wouldn’t we like it if we could just ask God to give us our “daily bread” for the rest of our lives so we wouldn’t worry or have to ask again every day? But would we talk to him if we didn’t need him? Needing him keeps us humble and reminds us of who he is. He keeps us tethered to him with our need for him and what only he can supply. He wants us to depend on him every moment of every day because this builds our relationship with him. He never holds blessings back and he never refuses to meet our needs but in his sovereignty, he gives exactly what he knows we need and only when he knows we need it. Dependence on him is the process through which we are formed to look more like him.
God wants us to completely trust in him to meet our needs. Faith in God is based on truth - his word and his faithfulness in our lives. We trust him for every daily need. We trust what he gives and give thanks because he gives what is for his glory and our good. We can trust him because his ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts – they are much higher. He is omniscient, meaning he knows everything – past, present, and future. Nothing surprises him and he knows our deepest needs before we even tell him. He knows our needs before we know them, and no person or thing can ever do that for us. Only God can do what only God can do. Read that again. He is the only one we can trust to meet our needs in the best way for us.
When we understand and remember who God is and what he has done, we have faith to humbly come before him, depending on him and trusting he will meet our daily needs.
How has God provided for you this week? Write it down and put it where will see it often to be reminded of the truth of God’s faithfulness.
What is your greatest need today? Humbly take it to him, knowing you have a heavenly father you can depend on and trust meet all your needs.