[SPEAKER_00]: Hello church, hello, good evening, hi everyone, hi guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to church, hope you've had a great day, great week.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone say hi to him, welcome everyone, it is so good to be with you all this evening.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so keen, hope you've had a great day, great week.
[SPEAKER_00]: Before I begin, I want to just, just note a quick thank you to those who have been praying for me and my family, over a recent loss, yeah, recent loss that we had, that was quite sudden yesterday and so thank you for your prayers, we really do appreciate that if you could keep me and my family in your prayers, that would be excellent before we get into today, what are you praying with me?
[SPEAKER_00]: Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you so much that you are close to the broken hearted, that you save those who are crushed in spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thank you, Lord, for everyone here today.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just pray for a night that we can just sit, be grounded, open up our heart to what you have to say, Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pray this in Jesus name.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: What a privilege it is to share God's word with you all.
[SPEAKER_00]: want to begin by asking you guys a question.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you actually feel when you wake up in the morning?
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's eagerness, gratitude, excitement to start your day.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that sounds great, but I think we all know that life isn't always that easy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know for some people, in this room, I know for sure me and my family, you know, you wake up and you have to deal with pain and grief and heartbreak and suffering and so in those moments of hardship and uncertainty, how do you get to a place of pain for daily bread?
[SPEAKER_00]: Am I still clinging to independence?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are my surrendering to daily dependence on my Heavenly Father?
[SPEAKER_00]: I shall probably introduce myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: My name is Stelios.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am part of the Young Adult's Ministry team here at one.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's lovely to see your face.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you are new here, as Ali mentioned, we are currently in a series on the Lord's Prayer, which we all read out so beautifully, by the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I should have it here, I do.
[SPEAKER_00]: So far in the series, God has been revered as our father, or as the language suggests a more casual dad in heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's been hallowed in name, and had his kingdom, his will, desired, and yearned for.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so the question is, why don't Jesus stop the prayer there?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, shouldn't that be it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Have we not just prayed for the most important things that we as Christians should be praying for, that God's honor, that God's worship, that His will will be done, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if something were to be added to that, it would not only be so urgent to Jesus, but because Jesus reveals the heart of the Father, whatever that something is, would also be of utmost significance to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what could possibly be left to pray about,
[SPEAKER_00]: The answer, of course, is you, it's you, it's me, it's us, our needs, see the Lord's prayers broken up into six different petitions or sections.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus has given us these six petitions that each undercurrent are different idea in what it means to connect with God, to partner with Him, to approach Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you look at the Lord's prayer as a whole,
[SPEAKER_00]: In the first three petitions, all the focuses on God, it's your name, your kingdom, your will.
[SPEAKER_00]: As the prayer develops, we see this contrast of a focal point in the last three petitions, as they begin to include you in me, as they begin to include us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Using words like, our us, figures up, forgive us, our sin, our deaders, save us, lead us, and while we will get to those verses in the next couple weeks, it is apparent that there is an order of things.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Jesus has laid the prayer blueprint.
[SPEAKER_00]: Has He not?
[SPEAKER_00]: God first, then us.
[SPEAKER_00]: because it's when we arrive to daily bread.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rule of a sudden, Jesus' prayer evolves from Father your glory to Father, I want your glory for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's the posture.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's absolutely necessary that we as Christians, we recognize this shift.
[SPEAKER_00]: Already there is a map to our stance, our way of thinking in the way that we approach God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is calling us to recognize the importance of those things before we get to what we want.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's actually more than a posture.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's more than a stance.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a spiritual alignment with the will of the one who is providing you the bread that you are asking for.
[SPEAKER_00]: Unless we truly seek the ideas that Jesus is starting his prayer with that are completely utterly solely focused on God, well, they may not even be a point in praying for daily bread because we will receive bread for a kingdom then we might not even want.
[SPEAKER_00]: Think of it this way.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of like that friend that you have, that person you know where, if they contact you, if they call you, you love them, but you just know they're going to ask for stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ask for a favor or something they need.
[SPEAKER_00]: Never really ask how you are.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not really a mutual relationship.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure we can all think of someone.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope that's not me, guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think, you know, how often are we treating God not like a love and father, who gives good gifts to his children, but like a spiritual genie, whose mere presence we don't need to acknowledge or behold every day, but instead we just want our wish
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's crucial to recognize that unless we understand God's name, what his kingdom or desire his will over our life, the only kingdom that we will see come is the one we want, the only will accomplished would be ours, and the only name, hellowed, will simply be our own.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I mean, the Lord's prayer becomes the us prayer, doesn't it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who are you talking to?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where is the bread going?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the purpose?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the end goal?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now Jesus is encouraging us, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's encouraging us, pray for what you need.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if he's so much more than that, this truly is one of the most, I think, one of the most looked at, but never grasped versus one of the most powerful, but never used, one of the most memorized, but never known, lines in the whole of the New Testament.
[SPEAKER_00]: After all, Jesus is answering his disciples when they ask, teach us to pray.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if Jesus really is God in human flesh, well, I think His words mean something.
[SPEAKER_00]: If anything, they're probably hold the most weight out of anyone who ever existed.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think there's a reason why in over 2,000 years, there's been no improvement on His moral and ethical teachings, especially the sermon on the Mount.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, how do you improve on, how do you improve on love your neighbor as yourself?
[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps you could say, you could say, love your enemy, and I would say you've done it while done, but Jesus said that also.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he actually kept going, he said, love your enemies and pray for those who curse you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, to do that, to say it is one thing, but to actually do that, to live that out, is humanly unnatural and borderline impossible if we depend on ourselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love those words in the New Testament.
[SPEAKER_00]: With man, it is impossible, but with God, do we know it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing is impossible, excellent.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly right.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is where daily bread enters.
[SPEAKER_00]: We need daily dependence to live out these kingdom ethics.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if Jesus takes our own needs seriously, if he takes it seriously, well, I mean, we should probably consider it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what even is daily bread?
[SPEAKER_00]: real life bread being delivered to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know I've prayed for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't happen as much as I would love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But in the same way that we eat physical food to feed our physical bodies such is the same with spiritual food for our souls.
[SPEAKER_00]: I try to find a great definition for daily bread.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't get better than J.I.
[SPEAKER_00]: Packard Theologian who says.
[SPEAKER_00]: Daily bread is a stand-in for all of life's necessities and the means of supplying them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's a big task.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's massive.
[SPEAKER_00]: So don't be ashamed or feel guilty if you're praying and you just don't know what to say to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: and maybe you're one of those people like me and I mentioned at the beginning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it's just too much and you're trying to pray to God and all nothing comes out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is teaching here, guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is not selfish to pray for your physical problems, your social problems, your personal, and yes, your spiritual issues.
[SPEAKER_00]: To take that and hand that over to God, especially the ones that no one sees.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is indicating, and it's actually such a priority, that after praying for God's will to be done on earth, his literal will to be done on earth, the next thing Jesus says to pray for is your daily need.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't want us to lose sight, that this is a glorious gift, an aggracious gift.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Jesus could have said absolutely anything, but he knows the heart of the Father.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is the heart of the Father.
[SPEAKER_00]: The heart of what the Father wants is close relationship with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter, Possil Peter writes in First Peter, there you go, humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand that He may lift you up in due time, cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you, because He cares for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do we need to remove something that is doing nothing but burdening us?
[SPEAKER_00]: If so, this is why this prayer is crucial.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you stuck and you just don't know what you need and you're in a hole or you're in a cycle, that's okay, this is what the Lord's prayer is for.
[SPEAKER_00]: To pray into that, to give you the words that you might not have, I truly think that
[SPEAKER_00]: Are the tires that separate your car from the ground?
[SPEAKER_00]: It is the foundation by which we as Christians even move in the first place.
[SPEAKER_00]: According to Jesus, God cares about what you need.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what does Jesus say towards the end of the sermon of the Mount?
[SPEAKER_00]: In this same chapter of the Lord's prayer, what does He say?
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, So do not worry.
[SPEAKER_00]: For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly father knows that you need them.
[SPEAKER_00]: He knows, but Sikh first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow, or worry about itself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Each day has enough trouble on its own.
[SPEAKER_00]: Powerful stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, verse 33, Sikh first his kingdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's literally the very first petition that we must seek first his kingdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: His righteousness, everything will be given to us if that's where our focal point is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not if we focus on ourselves, not if we look inwardly, but if we look to God as our provider.
[SPEAKER_00]: Seeking, first, the kingdom means church.
[SPEAKER_00]: It means learning to depend on God for everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if we're honest,
[SPEAKER_00]: Dependence doesn't come naturally to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: We prefer control and security, comfort.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is why a practice, like fasting, is really helpful as a spiritual discipline.
[SPEAKER_00]: It helps us grow and surrender.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fasting teaches us that, or teaches our bodies, really, that God Himself is our ultimate sustainer.
[SPEAKER_00]: When we deny the body food and replace it with prayer, we are aligning our unnamed desires with His.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when we begin to understand that kind of dependence, that kind of reliance, we start to understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: We start to grasp and comprehend the alignment that Jesus wants us to have when we pray.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which again, daily bread is not about food.
[SPEAKER_00]: Daily bread is what you need and it is all you need.
[SPEAKER_00]: It can look like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Purpose, clothing, joy, shelter, money, power, food, peace, courage, forgiveness, clarity, rest, strength, humility, wisdom, hope, patience, love.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is daily bread.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is also a lot for anyone to carry on their own.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're looking at all these words and you have all that, that's off to you, that's excellent.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you have all that in your Christian, is there an area where you can maybe live with less to be generous to God's kingdom?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you might look at some of these things like money or shelter or clothing and think,
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't really need God for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is something that I can do, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, how do you open up your house?
[SPEAKER_00]: How do you know where to use your money?
[SPEAKER_00]: How do you give away your clothing?
[SPEAKER_00]: And on the flip side, if you're looking at these words, which I do have to add, is a lot to look at.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is there one that stands out to you?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you just have a look right now on the screen, whether you're a Christian or not,
[SPEAKER_00]: Is there something highlighted to you?
[SPEAKER_00]: One that's on your heart, maybe something that's occurred within life, circumstances.
[SPEAKER_00]: One you can pray about.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you might be thinking, doesn't God already provide?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, doesn't God in His nature already provide?
[SPEAKER_00]: These things, like, why do we have to pray about it?
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: He does.
[SPEAKER_00]: He continually provides, now I'm not saying by, by praying the Lord's prayer that you will receive it all guaranteed in blessing and prosperity.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what I am saying is, when you pray for the Father to give you daily bread, you are covering all that in prayer, you are packaging it up,
[SPEAKER_00]: You put a little bow on it and you are just sending it to God and you're saying, Lord, I want your will over this.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is the act itself of bringing something to the Lord's hands.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pastor and author Don Underwood puts it this way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is speaking about the spiritual dimension of our whole life.
[SPEAKER_00]: about the quest for love and meaning and hope and purpose.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's addressing our deepest needs and greatest longings.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's speaking about giving us enough, enough to be spiritually full as well as physically full.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I think of enough, my mind jumps straight to the Israelites in Exodus.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you read Exodus 16, essentially God has freed these relates from generations of slavery from the hands of the Egyptian and Pharaoh.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in the midst of their traveling with Moses and Aaron,
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they obviously wouldn't have a lot of food with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were hungry.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they actually began to complain.
[SPEAKER_00]: They actually began to complain.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, I was just like, sorry, it isn't really funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were telling Moses and Aaron, we actually would rather go back to being slaves, because at least we got food.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, that was where their mindset was at.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, when you read that,
[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds incredibly ungrateful on their part, and that's certainly how I read it the first time.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's also incredibly human.
[SPEAKER_00]: We all see comfort.
[SPEAKER_00]: We all see what we know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, in this insane dialogue between the Israelites and Moses, how should God respond?
[SPEAKER_00]: A loud, booming voice of anger, how dare you lightening out of the sky, because that would be fair.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, how did God respond?
[SPEAKER_00]: God provided them food.
[SPEAKER_00]: Quail in the evening and manner, bread from heaven, every single morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: So after this moment of care from God to the Israelites, do you think that they continually trust it in Him to provide them food, the same God to feed them?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because here's the thing, they were not only told to take what they needed,
[SPEAKER_00]: actually they were told to take exactly what they needed and not less because if it was less they'd be hungry and not more because all if they ignored God and tried to hold all the Manif and themselves the Manif would breed worms and waste essentially.
[SPEAKER_00]: the bread symbolized, the sustaining of their physical body, but underneath it, underneath it, there was a spiritual trust, spiritual trusting God.
[SPEAKER_00]: God was saying, depend on me, depend on what I'm giving you today is enough, because tomorrow, don't worry about tomorrow, tomorrow they will be more again.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, coming back to the daily bread verse, that's what Jesus says today, our daily bread.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not tomorrow, the next week, the next month today.
[SPEAKER_00]: To follow Jesus is to live in constant dependence of God one day at a time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we just read the words of Jesus saying, yeah, don't worry about tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's so difficult for us because who doesn't want to control?
[SPEAKER_00]: This is where I think the crux of the daily bread petition lies in.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is where child-like faith enters the picture, which is something Jesus points to so many times throughout the gospel later on in Matthew 18 he talks about becoming like children.
[SPEAKER_00]: So think about a child.
[SPEAKER_00]: A child can't provide for themselves, they can't own money or cook meals or secure their future.
[SPEAKER_00]: A child lives in complete dependence on their parents.
[SPEAKER_00]: A healthy child doesn't stay up at night worrying about their meal tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: They trust that when they wake up, their parents are going to provide them with what they need.
[SPEAKER_00]: We as Christians are called to live out our faith in trust.
[SPEAKER_00]: A good parent gives their child what they need.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not always what they want.
[SPEAKER_00]: And God, our Father, calls us to that same daily dependence.
[SPEAKER_00]: Trust in that His provision is enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, think of this example.
[SPEAKER_00]: A child stands at the end of a street.
[SPEAKER_00]: They want to cross the road.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's just cars racing, one child might decide to do it
[SPEAKER_00]: Another child, or not know what to do, and in a moment of uncertainty, look up to their parent, hold their hand, and trust that their parent is going to guide them safely.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the same way, I think we must trust in the will of our Father, who sees things we cannot.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I find with God that I hold onto Him when I need Him, like I'll cross the road, and
[SPEAKER_00]: And then when I'm safe, I let go because I don't need him, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Until I see another busy road.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's just the same thing over and over.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is not living in today, Lee Brad.
[SPEAKER_00]: In that moment, if I choose to let go of God's hand, I find myself quickly lost once again.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if I'm honest, church, I've spent
[SPEAKER_00]: 19-ish 20 years without Christ, and I am never going back.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if I'm honest, I really don't know how I did it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how I carried my own fears, my own shame, my own guilt, my own anxieties, inadequacy, failures, my own burdens.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you feel that you were doing that, I want you to hear me.
[SPEAKER_00]: God does not want the perfect you, God wants the honest you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you don't trust God for daily bread, you just pass those things on to everything else, everyone else, except to the one who wants it.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I try to go my own way and I still do it, it's me, not God, it is me who in moments of uncertainty let go of God's hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is never the other way around.
[SPEAKER_00]: I quickly realize that I am just like the Israelite who wants to turn around and go back to Egypt and listen, church, God is still the Father who says, my child, don't look back, don't turn around, look at me, focus on me, trust that I am all you need.
[SPEAKER_00]: I still struggle with it, with surrender in everything to God, with praying for daily bread and men in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had to look at myself honestly and I have to ask this,
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you really believe that God is a caring father who can provide you with life's necessities or not?
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you hear that and you say no, then that's okay, that's actually okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: But in actuality, either he is or is not.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't think that the response to that question
[SPEAKER_00]: is answered by whether we knowingly memorised or unknowingly say these six words in prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: The answer to that question is reflected by how we live in surrender to bring in the previous petitions to fruition.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is, the wanting of God's kingdom, not my kingdom, God's church, not my church, God's ministry, not my ministry.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you want to reject the truth, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Understand this, understand a loving parent, even if they do not want their child to go down a certain path or not force them to change.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is control.
[SPEAKER_00]: God is not controlling.
[SPEAKER_00]: God is love and love is not controlling.
[SPEAKER_00]: And let me declare to you tonight the alternative.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine if the truth was this?
[SPEAKER_00]: God does exist.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he doesn't care about his creation.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no worrying about your needs.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no sending Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is no communication in prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: He saw what was in our hearts right from the beginning in Eden.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he ran and we haven't heard a thing from him since.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is not the truth, my friends.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is revealing that not only is this God a father.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not only is His name, hello, by the stars, and the very essence of creation itself, not only is His will, established and prevailing day by day, but there is simply, there is simply not a moment that passes where God doesn't see you and patiently waits to provide you with what you need.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can I get an amen?
[SPEAKER_00]: in all his incredible glory and majesty in the midst of building his kingdom on earth he still desires you to be a part of it God is able to see you hear you and still chooses to love you doesn't run away doesn't that doesn't hide doesn't count he's with you and we can't only talk to God when we need something right and then when we get it just leave God on the side of the cross road that is the trap that is the trap of the Christian life
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is the trap of the Lord's prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so easy to ask God for what I need, and it's so hard to ask God to take away what I don't need.
[SPEAKER_00]: As Christians, if we do proclaim the first petitions, if we really do want that, are we willing to surrender what we want?
[SPEAKER_00]: We must constantly, consistently.
[SPEAKER_00]: Daily say no to our desire to control and say some of the most difficult words, you might ever have to pray, some of the most difficult words, I've ever prayed, Lord, I don't want it, I want to give it to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm giving up myself, centredness, the parts of me that want to control, the parts of me that are prideful in thinking that I am always right and need no correction because in doing that, that is childlike faith, that is daily bread.
[SPEAKER_00]: on our walk with Jesus, in these six words, these six powerful words, we learn that the praying for daily bread is not about food, it is about honest dependence.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which Jesus spoke about just before we spoke about this prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we close our eyes, set Neil before him, and ask him for what we need and just be honest.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just tell him how you feel to just sit in his presence.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really don't think there is much more to build in.
[SPEAKER_00]: that is truly the first step.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I don't want it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just talk to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's always the first step.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if you've come and you're on fire,
[SPEAKER_00]: And then things happen, and you think you've lost it, you think you've lost Jesus, and you're trying to come back to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're trying to feel him again.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is the first step to say, Lord, it's not even about what I want.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to sit with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to be hold you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want you, Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: For the parents in the room, which there aren't many parents.
[SPEAKER_00]: For the parents in the room, let me ask you.
[SPEAKER_00]: When your child makes a mistake, would you want them to lie or pretend or would you rather them just be honest and ask for your help?
[SPEAKER_00]: I am so glad church that God doesn't base his love on you or for me on our actions.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so glad that his love isn't dependent on what we do because if that were the case, man, I'd be in a lot of trouble.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I can just invite the band back up, I mentioned at the beginning that we all wake up, knowing that something is gonna happen today whether that's a warrior and anxiety or a task or a job or a responsibility, we all wake up a certain way.
[SPEAKER_00]: I look at what's happening around the world, what's happening in other countries, people are just trying to survive that day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Their daily bread is actual bread, or water, or a meal, or shelter.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I asked, when we pray, give us today our daily bread.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are we still clinging on to independence?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or are we surrendering to daily dependence on our Heavenly Father?
[SPEAKER_00]: The answer?
[SPEAKER_00]: It is waking up every morning, whether that's to laughter, all heartbreak, or grief, and saying, Father, I trust you today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not tomorrow, not the next week.
[SPEAKER_00]: Today.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I need.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you struggle with control, it is the furthest thing from control.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can assure you, I've been on both sides, it is nothing but freedom.
[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't mean you won't struggle, but you are surrendering the burden and the weight to the one who wants it.
[SPEAKER_00]: When we pray for daily bread,
[SPEAKER_00]: When I ask Him for God to make us independent and live a life away from Him, anywhere we want, I truly think church that the asking of daily bread is the real linements of your relationship with God.
[SPEAKER_00]: It causes the reordering of the heart to the posture of a child, Father, I cannot rely on myself, daily bread.
[SPEAKER_00]: is the summoning of God's presence into the slides gone, but that's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Daily bread is the summoning of God's presence into your whole life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Daily bread is not just provision.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is requesting God into your emotions, into your burdens, into your worries, into every single facet of darkness, of trouble, every fiber of your being that you're inst to see.
[SPEAKER_00]: His kingdom prevail forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: And ever I'm in, but it does begin with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It begins in your secret place.
[SPEAKER_00]: It begins in humble, dependent obedience.
[SPEAKER_00]: Church, I just want you to take a moment, just close your eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just before we worship.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want you to think about those words on the screen if there was something there.
[SPEAKER_00]: If there's something you need to give to God, if there's something you need more of, he is a loving father who does give good gifts to his children.
[SPEAKER_00]: So ask.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is listening.
[SPEAKER_00]: He does hear you.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is close to the broken hearted.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is the way, the truth, and the life.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is the resurrection, and the life.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is one with the Father.
[SPEAKER_00]: All things have been put under his feet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord Jesus, we come to you now.
[SPEAKER_00]: In humble obedience, I pray Holy Spirit that you can just shed off any pride
[SPEAKER_00]: Shut off, anything, any barrier, any obstacle, anything that is causing me to just spend time with you, Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anything that is causing us to not hear your voice, to not feel your presence, to not know who you are.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Lord Jesus, I pray for us tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just pray, Lord, that we can come to you, that we could be honest with you, that we can tell you anything that's on our heart,
[SPEAKER_00]: that you will take our burdens, you will comfort us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just as you say in the Great Commission, Jesus, surely you are with us until the end of age.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus' name, Amen.