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Luke 11 - Devotion · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Welcome to Five Minute Bible in our journey through the New
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  Testament. In each episode, we take just a
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  few minutes to focus on one chapter of the New Testament,
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  exploring the truths God is teaching us through His Word and
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  expanding our view of who He is. Before you listen, make sure
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  you've gone straight to the source, either by reading
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  today's chapter of the Bible yourself or listening to today's
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  read along episode in this podcast feed.
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  If you haven't done that yet, feel free to pause and do that
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  now. When you're ready, let's dive
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  into God's word together. In Luke Chapter 11, one of Jesus
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  disciples asked the Lord to teach him and the other
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  disciples how to pray. What follows is 1 version of
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  what we've come to know as the Lord's Prayer.
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  Listen to what Jesus prays. Father hallowed be your name,
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  your Kingdom come. Give us each day Our Daily Bread
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  and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves.
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  Also forgive everyone who is indebted to us and lead us not
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  into temptation. Jesus prays intimately to the
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  Father. He sets as his highest desire
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  that the name of God would be hallowed, revered, viewed as
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  holy. He wants God to get the glory he
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  deserves. Before Jesus outlines any of his
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  needs or even talks about himself at all, his desire is
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  for the fame and honour of the name of God.
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  This is the natural result of real relationship with the holy,
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  holy, holy God. When we see God rightly, we will
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  desire that all the world see him rightly.
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  Then Jesus prays that God's Kingdom would come, that he
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  would institute his rule on earth, that he would bring to
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  fruition all of his promises. Now we know what it would cost
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  Jesus for God's name to be hallowed and God's Kingdom to
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  come, His very life on the cross.
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  None the less, Jesus boldly prays for God's glory and reign.
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  It is at this point in the prayer that Jesus expresses
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  real, tangible need, and it's here that I want us to spend the
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  rest of our time together. He prays give us each day Our
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  Daily Bread. Jesus here is acknowledging that
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  our provision is from the Lord. What is amazing here is the
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  timing of that provision from the Lord.
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  Give us each day Our Daily Bread.
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  Jesus is not here asking for a once for all provision from the
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  Lord. He is not asking that God fill
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  him up and keep him full forever, though God is certainly
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  powerful enough to work like that.
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  No, Jesus prays for daily provision.
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  Implied in this request is the reality that we are a needy
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  people, and that need is one that must continually be met,
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  not just once, but over and over and over.
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  Think about that. God could have made us so that
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  our meals would sustain us for days or weeks on end.
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  He could have made us like bears that are able to hibernate
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  seasonally and survive on what they've already eaten.
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  He could have made us like some snakes whose metabolism slows
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  dramatically after a large meal. He could have made us like
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  Penguins or camels whose fat reserves can keep them running
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  for weeks or months on end without another meal.
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  But no. By and large, God made humanity
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  to have a daily need for food. We every day must grapple with
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  the fact that we are not God. We every day must acknowledge
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  that we cannot sustain ourselves.
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  We every day must recognize that we have need.
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  And So what do we do? We pray, we come to the God who
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  needs nothing, the God who does not tire or hunger, and we ask
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  him to do again what he has done so many times before.
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  Provide Our Daily Bread, give us food for our bodies.
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  And not just that, this physical need points to the deeper
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  reality that we need not just bodily sustenance, but spiritual
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  sustenance. We need God not just to satisfy
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  our bellies, but to satisfy our very souls.
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  And just like we are forced daily to recognize our
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  dependence, our lack, we must daily come to the Lord and
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  recognize that apart from the bread of life, apart from being
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  fed in the deepest parts of our being by God Himself, we are
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  lost. So pray this Lord's Prayer
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  today. Seek God's glory, seek His name,
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  seek His Kingdom, and acknowledge before Him that we
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  are in utter, desperate need of Him, not just today, not just
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  once, but each and every day, and receive from Him your daily
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  bread, both for your body and for your soul.