We Ask God for What We Need & Want (TMF:1256)

Monday, November 11, 2019
Peace to Live By: We Ask God for What We Need & Want (TMF:1256) - Daniel Litton
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       Next, we read the phrase from our Lord Jesus “Give us this day our daily bread.” When Jesus was here during his earthly ministry, he told his followers to ask God on many different occasions for the things they needed in life. Recall, later here in the Sermon on the Mount, the sermon of which we find the Lord’s Prayer here, he said in chapter 7: “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 the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened” (Matthew 7:7, 8, ESV). Now, here in the Lord’s Prayer we are told to ask God for our daily bread, the daily need of food that we have to have to live—to stay alive. But I think there is more to this phrase here. Again, in Matthew 7 Jesus gave no stipulation on what we are to ask God for. So, we can ask God for anything that we need, or really even anything that we think we want in our lives. Now, that doesn’t mean God will give us whatever we ask, but it’s not wrong to ask for something from God, as long as we know our motive is correct in our asking.