Give us this day our daily bread

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Give us this day our daily bread

• Matthew 611

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For what things should we ask?

• Our NEEDS

If we have food and covering, with these we shall
be content. 1 Timothy 68
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For what things should we ask?

• Our NEEDS

Great things, small things, spiritual things and
material things, inward things and outward things
there is nothing that is not included in this
prayer. Helmut Thielicke
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For what things should we ask?

• Our NEEDS
• OUR needs

If a brother or sister is without clothing and in
need of daily food, and one of you says to them,
Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, and yet
you do not give them what is necessary for their
body, what use is that? James 215-16
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For what things should we ask?
Instruct those who are rich in this present world
not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the
uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly
supplies us with all things to enjoy. Instruct
them to be generous and ready to share. 1
Timothy 617-19

• Our NEEDS
• OUR needs
• Our wants

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Ask, and it will be given to you seek, and you
will find knock, and it will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks
finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Matthew 77-8
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And Jesus answered and said to them, Truly I say
to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you
will not only do what was done to the fig tree,
but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken
up and cast into the sea, it will happen. And
all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will
receive. Matthew 2121-22
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Why dont we receive all that we ask for?

• The petitioners are not Gods children
• We dont ask

You do not have because you do not ask. James 42
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Why dont we receive all that we ask for?

• The petitioners are not Gods children
• We dont ask
• We have sin in our lives

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with
wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your
pleasures. James 43
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Why dont we receive all that we ask for?

• The petitioners are not Gods children
• We dont ask
• We have sin in our lives

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we
have confidence before God and whatever we ask
we receive from Him, because we keep His
commandments and do the things that are pleasing
in His sight. 1 John 321-22
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Why dont we receive all that we ask for?

• The petitioners are not Gods children
• We dont ask
• We have sin in our lives
• Others have sin in their lives
• Its not the best for the Kingdom, or for us

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Why dont we receive all that we ask for?

• The Big Idea!
• We are invited to submit our requests to God
• but first we must submit ourselves to God.

Delight yourself in the Lord
and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 374
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Why dont we receive all that we ask for?

• The Big Idea!
• We are invited to submit our requests to God
• but first we must submit ourselves to God.

This is the confidence which we have before Him,
that, if we ask anything according to His will,
He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in
whatever we ask, we know that we have the
requests which we have asked from Him. 1 John
514-15
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Why dont we receive all that we ask for?

• The Big Idea!
• We are invited to submit our requests to God
• but first we must submit ourselves to God.

For not one of us lives for himself, and not one
dies for himself for if we live, we live for the
Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord
therefore whether we live or die, we are the
Lords. Romans 147-8
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Why should we persist in prayer?

• Intimacy
• Change
• Answers
• Worship

When He had taken the book, the four living
creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down
before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and
golden bowls full of incense, which are the
prayers of the saints. Revelation 58
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Why is prayer so hard?

• The John Daly Principle