PRAYER:

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PRAYER DEPENDING ON GOD Matthew 611
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This prayer is an expression of our complete
dependence on God for his provision regarding
everything.
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everything necessary for the preservation of
this life is bread, including food, a healthy
body, good weather, house, home, wife, children,
good government peace
- John Stott, Christian Counter-Culture The
Sermon on the Mount, page 149
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This prayer recognizes that God is the source of
everything we need
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every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above, coming down from the Father of lights with
whom there is no variation or shadow due to
change
- James 117
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There is nothing in this world that is truly
good that has any other origin than from above,
namely heaven, descending from the Father of
lights, which refers to God
- ESV Study Bible note on James 117
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Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about
your life, what you will eat or what you will
drink, nor about your body, what you will put on.
Is not life more than food, and the body more
than clothing? Look at the birds of the air they
neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and
yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not
of more value than they? And which of you by
being anxious
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can add a single hour to his span of life? And
why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow they neither
toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in
all his glory was not arrayed like one of
these. But if God so clothes the grass of the
field, which today is alive tomorrow is thrown
into the oven, will he not much more clothe you,
O you of little faith?
- Matthew 625 - 30
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You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is
he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may
confirm his covenant that he swore to your
fathers, as it is this day.
- Deuteronomy 818
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Then Jacob made a vow, saying, If God will be
with me and will keep me in this way that I go,
and will give me bread to eat and clothing to
wear, so that I come again to my father's house
in peace
- Genesis 2820-21
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This prayer expresses our dependence upon God
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In him we live and move and have our being
- Acts 1728
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apart from me you can do nothing
- John 155
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As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself,
unless it abides in the vine, neither can you,
unless you abide in me. I am the vine you are
the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him,
he it is that bears much fruit
- John 153-5
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• Develop a mindset that recognizes and practices
  dependency upon God.

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• Develop a mindset that recognizes and practices
  dependency upon God.
• Learn to distinguish between necessity and
  desire.

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Give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with
the food that is needful for me, lest I be full
and deny you and say, Who is the Lord? or lest
I be poor and steal and profane the name of my
God
- Proverbs 308-9
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• Develop a mindset that recognizes and practices
  dependency upon God.
• Learn to distinguish between necessity and
  desire.
• Practice self-discipline

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self-controlled, upright, holy, and discipline
- Titus 18
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He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up
for us all, how will he not also with him
graciously give us all things
- Romans 832