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For: Sep23: The Lord’s Prayer
4th Petition: Give us this day our daily bread.	Readings        Memorization in Bold    
• Why do we pray to God for daily bread?
• How does God provide our daily bread?
• What does God want us to do for those who are unable to work for daily food?
•Why does Jesus have us say “this day” and “daily”?
•Chain your own verses for each section.  Use bible.cc  	
• Daily Bread
• Bodily Needs
• Spiritual Needs
• Fruitful Earth
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Live Content	SS	Give us this day our daily bread.
What does this mean? God certainly gives daily bread to everyone without our prayers, even to all evil people, but we pray in this petition that God would lead us to realize this and to receive our daily bread with thanksgiving.
What is meant by daily bread? Daily bread includes everything that has to do with the support and needs of the body, such as food, drink, clothing, shoes, house, home, land, animals, money, goods, a devout husband or wife, devout children, devout workers, devout and faithful rulers, good government, good weather, peace, health, selfcontrol, good reputation, good friends, faithful neighbors, and the like.	
Hymn: LSB 642 (The Church’s One Foundation/The Bridegroom Soon Will Call Us)
1 O Living Bread from heaven,
How well You feed Your guest!
The gifts that You have given
Have filled my heart with rest.
Oh, wondrous food of blessing,
Oh, cup that heals our woes!
My heart, this gift possessing,
With praises overflows.
2 My Lord, You herehave led me
To this most holy place
And with Yourself have fed me
The treasures of Your grace;
For You have freely given
What earth could never buy,
The bread of life from heaven,
That now I shall not die.
3 You gave me all I wanted;
This food can death destroy.
And You have freely granted
The cup of endless joy.
My Lord, I do not merit
The favor You have shown,
And all my soul and spirit
Bow down before Your throne.
4 Lord, grant me then, thus strengthened
With heav'nly food, while here
My course on earth is lengthened,
To serve with holy fear.
And when You call my spirit
To leave this world below,
I enter, through Your merit,
Where joys unmingled flow.			
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   .    	We pray to God for daily bread, which includes everything that has to do with the support and needs of the body, because Christ wants us to
A.realize that our entire life and that of everyone else depends on God; Ps. 145:15-16; Matt. 5:45; Acts 17:28; James 4:15
B.receive all our physical blessings with thanks giving;
Ps. 106:1; Eph. 5:19-20; 1 Tim. 4:4-5 
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	Tue	C.  look to God for physical as well as spiritual blessings.
Ps. 91:15; Matt. 6:33; Luke 7:3 
Bible narratives: Jesus healed blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46-52). Jesus healed 10 lepers (Luke 17:11-19).
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	Wed	He makes the earth fruitful and blesses us with the ability to work for the things we need.
Ps. 104:14; 2 Thess. 3:10-12 
God does not want us to be selfish but to share with those who are unable to work and to include them in our prayers for daily bread.
1 Tim. 5:8; Heb. 13:16 ; 1 John 3:17-18 
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	Thurs	These words teach us not to be greedy or wasteful or to worry about the future but to live contentedly in the confidence that the Lord will give us what we need.
Prov. 30:8-9; Matt. 6:34; John 6:12; 1 Tim. 6:8; 1 Peter 5:7 
Bible narrative: The parable of the rich fool (Luke 12:15-21).
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