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A Word from Our Sponsor Therefore I say to you, do not worry 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, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? -- Matthew 6:25-26 The Heidelberg Catechism: Part 3 - Thankfulness Week 50: Our Lord's Prayer 125. Q. What is the fourth petition? A. "Give us this day our daily bread." That is: be pleased to provide for all our bodily needs so that thereby we may acknowledge that thou art the only source of all that is good, and that without thy blessing neither our care and labor nor thy gifts can do us any good. Therefore, may we withdraw our trust from all creatures and place it in thee alone. [Deut. 8:3; Ps. 37:16; 55:22; 62; 104:27-30; 127:1-2; 145:15-16; 146; Jer. 17:5-8; Matt. 6:25-34; Acts 14:17; 17:25; I Cor. 15:58; Heb. 13:5-6; James 1:17] Suggestions for discussion and review: Read Proverbs 30:8-9. 1. What is the danger of having too much? Too little? 2. Which danger is your spiritual life more threatened by? 3. How does being either rich or poor change the way we pray for our "daily bread"? 4. If God is going to supply our needs anyway, why should we pray for them? 5. Write a short prayer that expresses what you mean by "Give us this day our daily bread." * * * * * * * * * * I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day. -- Abraham Lincoln