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S.E.E.D. For Today___Daily Bread

 Scripture "Give us this day our daily bread" Matthew 6:11 ESV

 The Lord's Prayer is not a long prayer, but the petitions are so full of what it is that we should come to God for day and night. The beginning of the prayer admonishes and honors the Father, the request of the activity of heaven to operate in this realm, but then it goes to the physical or the human nature and necessities of man. The daily bread is not just about our daily provision and trusting God for it, but in it is so much more. In this command we metaphorically become bread as well because this prayer is a way that God uses us to build a mutuality between one another. He commands us to pray, give us, not give me. Every time we pray this prayer we are affirming our solidarity with our brothers and sisters, we commit ourselves to be part of God's answer for other's in need. I studied a commencement speech given by Arch Bishop William, his keynote address was from the Lord's Prayer, he says and I quote that; "the bread is not only a material resource but the recognition of  human dignity. That the daily bread and that of forgiveness is the exchange of the bread of life and the bread of truth, it is the way in which those who have damaged each other's humanity are brought back into a relation where each feeds the other and nurtures dignity. The daily bread is a prayer for the fullness of the Church to be manifest recognizing our own needs but turning to the needs of others and the foundation of community a sharing of bread, a sharing of ourselves in a practice of shared life." 

 Example The Daily Bread is the fourth petition of The Lord's Prayer. It covers us naturally, spiritually and also for community, our need to share ourselves with humanity as the bread.

Exercise Read Matthew 6:7-14 Journal and Talk to God. Jesus said; "I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." John 6:51 In the last supper He broke the bread as a representation of His body that would be crucified on behalf of all man. He gave His life as a living sacrifice, as we are summoned to do as well. The Lord's Prayer is not for God to take care of us only but that we understand that "I Am Bread" I am to share my life for to help meet the need of others. In the Unbuntu I am, because we are.

Devotion Our Father Who is in Heaven, May Your name be kept Holy, Thy Kingdom Come, Thy will be done in the earth just as it is in Heaven, Give us (we) our daily bread, forgive us of our sins as we are forgiving those that we feel have sinned against us. Help us not to yield to temptation, but deliver us from evil and the evil one for Thine is the Kingdom all the power and glory in Jesus Name Amen.







    

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