A Prayer For Every Day - Give Us Today Our Daily Bread - Matthew 6:11 - Origin Sermon - 13 August 2023

This morning, I'm really excited to invite Irene to come and be

our preacher. This morning she opens the word.

Irene, how are you feeling? Good.

All right. Let's pray for Irene.

Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for her.

We pray that you would bless her, encourage her, carry her.

This morning, may you anoint her with your spirit.

That that which you have planted in her life may be shared with

us as she opens the word. May you instruct her tongue to

be able to share with us. But we also open our hearts and

minds to you, that you yourself would speak to us by your

spirit, that we might see life generated inside of us.

And we ask this in the name of Jesus.

Amen. Good morning, Origin.

How are we today? Yeah, I saw some of you

yesterday night. So we've we've not had the 8

hours of sleep. That's OK.

We're going to hang in there. For those of you don't know me,

my name is Irene and I'll be preaching to you today.

And so far, we've been in a series on the Lord's Prayer.

Right. I don't know if it's the same

for you, but I've been very excited about the Lord's Prayer,

right? I think.

There is something about prayer that is the heartbeat of what it

means to be a Christian. Really.

Because like when you think about it, the church we're in

right now, what separates this church from any other community

you're a part of? Like what separates this from

your classrooms or your office or volunteering or charities or

other communities? Other communities have beauty,

other communities have truth, Other communities love each

other. But I think what separates the

church is 2 things. That we have the living God in

us and among us. And two, that when we pray, we

talk to God and something happens in that we change and

the world around us changes. There's so there's something

about the Lord's Prayer that's inviting us into prayer, right?

And even Jesus. Jesus highlights the importance

of prayer. When Jesus describes his house,

how does he describe it? You know, when, like, the

merchants are on the temple and they're defiling it, what does

he call the house? He does.

Yeah. Yeah, we got it.

Yes. He doesn't say my house is a

House of great sermons or my house is a House of great

worship, although both are important to the church.

He defines his house as a House of prayer.

And I think this becomes even more poignant when we go into

the New Testament and we know we as believers have the spirit of

God, which means we are houses of God.

So both as individuals and as a community, we're called to

prayer. Right.

And so the Lord's Prayer, I think, is an invitation for us

as origin to deepen our prayer lives as individuals, as a

community. And I'm excited to do that.

OK, so we're going into the fourth line of the Lord's

Prayer. Matthew 611.

Give us this day Our Daily Bread.

OK, So if you've been paying attention for the past three

weeks, this is kind of a shift, you guys.

We were in the heavens with our Father in heaven.

We were hollowing and setting apart His name.

And hallowed be your name, right?

We were recognizing His Kingdom. And your Kingdom come.

And we're aligning ourselves with His will and your will be

done on earth as it is in heaven.

And then suddenly. Bread, bread.

Bread in our homes. Maybe bread in your belly.

Some of you have bread right now.

I saw you with bread bags. OK.

And right, right there. So there's something about

bread. It's like heavens to bread, what

is the connection? Even though it seems like a

shift. I think what it's showing is our

God is an intensely practical God.

OK, we have bodies he recognizes.

Hey, you can do lines one to three of the Lord's Prayer.

If you don't eat you, you need to eat.

Give us this day, Our Daily Bread.

So when Jesus models asking God for daily bread, I think he's

telling us, hey, God cares about your needs.

He sees them and he wants to provide for them.

The physical, the tangible nature of bread forces us to

recognize this is a God who parts Red Seas but also cares

about your next meal. That's important.

That's important. We understand that.

What is daily bread, though? Is it just your meal?

We're going, we're going to resurrect the Protestant

reformer, Martin Luther, and he's going to he.

This is his quote about what Daily bread is.

OK, food. Drink.

Clothes, shoes, house, home, land, animals, money and goods.

A godly husband or wife, devout children, good workers, honest

faithful leaders, good government, good weather, peace,

health, law and order, and honorable name faithful friends,

trustworthy neighbors. That's a long list.

But what is it showing? That there's a lot that goes

into your day that God is interested in fulfilling all of

that? We have a God who cares, right?

And there's this like, there's just like weird.

Spiritual egoism that tries to separate the spiritual from the

physical that makes like, hey, God help me be more patient, a

more important prayer than God give me daily bread and that I

want to I want to spell this morning is a false binary.

We are Christians. We're both body and spirit.

OK, so Christianity doesn't say, hey, the body is lower than the

spirit. Don't look at the body our

Savior. Came in the form of a human.

He had a body in heaven. We're not angels.

We're not ghosts on our like cloud playing harps.

We have a body. We will have a body.

So the body is important so God cares our bodies and the fact

those bodies and needs. Now if you notice God does Jesus

doesn't say needs, he doesn't say grain.

He doesn't say caviar. He says bread.

And that's intentional. OK, so you have to remember

Jesus is God. And Jesus is always pointing to

God. And So what he's doing, he's

pulling on an image of God from the Old Testament.

We're gonna turn to Exodus 16 and like a little precursor for

this pass for this passage. At this point, Israel had come

out of Egyptian slavery. OK, they were.

They had Pharaoh and his chair. It's chasing them.

They go into the Red Sea, God parts the Red Sea, the men, the

women, the children are going, the pharaoh.

And everyone is drowning behind them, right?

It's this like dramatic show of God's glory.

But the Israelites are human. And So what happened?

They get hungry. They get hangry in the desert,

hungry and angry, and we see God showing up.

Exit is 16. Can you read with me?

They set out from Ellen. All the congregation at the

people of Israel came to the wilderness of sin, which is

between Ellen and Sinai, on the 15th day of the second month

after they departed from the land of Egypt.

And the whole congregation of the people of Israel rumbled

against Moses and Erin in the wilderness.

And the people of Israel said to them, would that we had died by

the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt.

When we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full.

For you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this

whole assembly with hunger. Then the Lord said to Moses,

Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven, for you, and the

people shall go out and gather a day's portion, that I may test

them whether they will walk in my law or not.

On the 6th day, when they prepare what they bring in, it

will be twice as much as they gather daily.

So Moses and Aaron said to all the people Israel.

That evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you

out of the land of Egypt. And in the morning you shall see

the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling

against the Lord. For where are we that you

grumble against us? Skip down to verse 13.

In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the

morning dew lay around the camp, and when the dew had gone up

there was on the face of the wilderness a fine flake like

thing, fine as frost on the ground.

When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another,

what is it for? They did not know what it was.

And Moses said to them, it is the bread of the Lord.

It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.

OK, so the Israelites are hungry.

They're in the desert. And then God is literally

raining down bread from heaven. Can you imagine that?

You wake up, you go out of your tent, and there's just quail and

bread everywhere. God supernaturally provided,

right? So when Jesus is saying, hey,

give us this day Our Daily Bread, he's saying God has

stayed the same through the ages.

He's the God who provided bread yesterday.

He'll do it today and he'll do it tomorrow.

And this aspect of God's provision becomes all the more

important when we get that bill at the end of the month or

groceries are too expensive, which is always a reality in

Vancouver. Or something funny happens with

the job, right? There's a tension there where

we're invited and to worry and Jesus is making the opposite

invitation. He's saying, can you trust in

God's daily bread? Because the reality is God

always shows up over and over and over.

He provides like the Israelites were quite literally in a

desert. No bakers nearby Bread.

Elijah the prophet, he had no food.

Ravens fed him Jesus with the 5000.

Out of two low 25 loaves and two fish, all of them fed, right.

So we have a God who cares about our daily needs.

He cares about you having a good night of sleep.

He cares about your student loans.

He cares about your dinner. He cares about your daily needs.

And do you see God as providing your daily needs?

Like, do you have that picture of God from heaven?

Literally, literally giving your needs.

Because what praying that line invites you into is recognizing

that he's already doing that. Like, I know you know, it looks

like you stumbled on to your friends and your job and your

clothes and your roof, but really, all good things come

from above, from the father of lights.

So everything good in your life, because he's the origin of good,

is from him. So, like praying, this prayer is

in an invitation to gratitude. And then also an invitation till

the day we die like breath out of our nose, praying that every

day, like relying on him, relying on him for provision.

I'm gonna take a drink of water. So we know we have a God who

cares, so why don't we go to him?

Like what are the barriers? I think there are a lot of

barriers, but I think for us, especially in this context, one

of the barriers is a really well learned habit of self-reliance.

There are many people in this congregation who are very

competent. They're intelligent.

You have multiple degrees at the end of your name, Okay every

other room you show up. You're reliable, you're smart,

and that's amazing. I am happy for that.

But the Lord is not impressed by you impressing right?

Like there's there's something about self-reliance that that

ultimately takes away from God's provision.

Because. This is what we've been doing

from Eden onwards, right? From like the very beginning

we've been trying to find our bread in other places.

It doesn't work out. We run away, we go into the

bushes and then God comes chasing after us and we hold on

to our fig leaves of shame and self-sufficiency.

So praying this prayer is now an invitation for us to like leave

that pattern that we have to repent.

We have to turn away from being self reliant because what is at

the heart of self-reliance? It's pride.

It's saying self above God. It's telling God like, hey, I

know you're the God who sits on the throne.

I know you know they end from the beginning.

But I feel like I run my life pretty well.

Like, I think I can handle this. And we don't say this with our

words, but we acted out. We acted out with

prayerlessness. We acted out when we rush out of

the door. We acted out when we don't ask

for daily bread. And the reality is God is

inviting us to a life with the Spirit.

With the life sustained by God. Because in to be in this

Kingdom, to be in the Kingdom of God, it's not just like we add

Christian onto a bunch of other identities, right?

It's like it's a different mindset.

He calls us to be needy. We're creatures.

We have a creator. And he's not apathetic.

He's a father. In Matthew 18 three he says this

thing about neediness. Truly, I say to you.

Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter

the Kingdom of heaven. That doesn't make sense in our

culture. Nobody tells you become more

like a child. OK, that is very

countercultural. Everything you do is trying to

grow up. And Jesus is saying like, no,

the posture you come to me is as a child, what do children do?

Some of you are not parents. Some of you are look around

origin. Children are everywhere, not

here right now. They're in Sunday school.

But what children are do, what they do is they're bold.

They ask. They need, they depend, they

act. They like, trust their parents

to provide. And So what?

Neediness. Ultimately, neediness in God is

trust. Neediness shows faith in the

faithfulness of God. So when we come to God, we have

to forget our PhD. We have to forget our masters.

We come to Him as children because that's the only posture

we receive, right? Like we can't front that some of

us have other barriers. So we can trust God for the

well-being of the world. We can trust God to help other

people, but we we we don't trust as much God's love for us,

right? Like maybe the perfect

Christians have earned it. The ones with 52 day church

attendances and 8.93 out of 9 foot to the Spirit and they have

Christ likeness radiating from their pores.

You know, those people, those good Christians, have earned

God's generosity. And the problem is we have

distorted views of God. Right.

Like that's a distorted view of God because how does God reveal

himself to us? He's a father.

You are not asking Vladimir Putin for daily red.

It's God. You're talking to your father.

And like, when when the scriptures describe God's love,

it's not just love, right. And that's a that word is

overused in our culture. The scripture says has said,

that's a very complicated word. I mean, there's no, like, actual

English equivalent for it, but it's 5 components.

Kindness. Mercy.

Loyalty. Faithfulness and love.

So it's a kind of covenantal love, action oriented.

It's a love that's coming towards you.

OK, so God's love, it's not passive.

He's coming towards you. He's coming for you, He's coming

to provide. And the problem is we have

gotten too used to broken patterns of human love.

Some of you are only no conditional love.

Some of you only know a stingy love.

Some of you only know unfaithful love.

And we impose that pattern upon God.

The reality is, God is not like your father.

He's not like your mother. He's not like your sister.

He's not like your cousins. He's not like your boss.

He is transcendent. And there's this thing we have

to do with our minds, like we have to take it to the

Scripture. We have to let him reveal

himself to us, right? Because when we go to the

scriptures, we see a God who so loved the world.

That he gave his one and only Son, that whoever should believe

in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

And if you look at that God, how?

How can you not see a God who is so abundantly generous?

The cross assures us of God's generosity right when we, like

understand his character. Coming to him and praying for

daily bread becomes easy because you know he loves you.

The reality is, even if you get into the habit of praying for

daily bread, there's this tension in this relationship

with God because sometimes he will not give you what you want.

And we enter into places of disappointment as God makes us

square with our needs and our wants.

I had one of these moments with God summer of 2022.

I'm a graduate student, I need a summer TA ship and everyone in

my cohort got one but me. I did not have one and.

You see, I I could feel God on it.

Like I could feel something about God was moving that

situation. And so I go to him and I was

like, you know, God daily bread. I need job.

Like I need, I need money. And he's like, we're going to

work on financial stewardship and your materialism issues this

summer. And So what that meant?

Because you know what? I says my needs were my pretty

jewelry and my books and my cafe dates and my leg, things that

smell nice and my art, especially when I was sad, mad,

or feeling bad and God wasn't as not a fan of my consumerism.

And I didn't want to work on it. He did, though, and so we

wrestled with it. He always wince, but he lets me

process. And that summer I had my bare

necessities. I had my rent, I had my

groceries, but nothing else. And I watched my bank account.

I watched it go from 4 digits to 3 digits to 2 digits to 1 digit.

And in that summer it was bitter bread.

But but what did I learn? That some of the things I had

had a hold on me. And he actually was changing my

heart when I couldn't go running to them, a material like I

actually became less materialistic I think that

summer. And then because I wasn't

running to them, I was running to him.

So my intimacy with God, my reliance on him started

increasing, right. So in that moment, it wasn't

pleasant. Daily Brad, it wasn't sweet, but

God did something. And OK, this is The funny thing.

So after after I seem to have learned lesson, God started

having money. Pop up all over the place.

And I mean in the last two weeks of summer, I recouped all of my

losses. So, like UBC, Sauter gave me

like thousands of dollars for a grant.

Mark Zuckerberg, a Facebook fame.

Apparently he was violating people's privacy in Illinois.

I used to live in Illinois. He sent me $400.00 in the mail.

Random. I ran, OK, this is this is how

random it is. I ran into an organizer of

synagogue events. They hired me to be their

Gentile scribe, and I would go and I would have delicious meals

with the Jewish community and I would literally write down their

conversations because they can't work and they paid me hundreds

of dollars. God is the God who pulls coins

out of fish's mouths, OK? And I've experienced that aspect

of God that summer. But yeah, the reality is we

enter into tough places when we ask God for daily bread because

he's our father. He's not a cosmic vending

machine, right? It's not like F4 out pops the

husband, although some of us would like that.

It's he. He wrestles with our desires.

He wrestles with it. And what he's doing is that he's

purifying us. He's refining us.

Some of you, some of you, might have unanswered prayers with

God. And that unanswered prayer is

making you doubt the goodness of God.

God is not scared of your doubt, or your disappointment, or your

anger or your confusion. And in fact, if you try to

ignore it and God is good your way out of it, it's self

delusion. Don't do that.

Don't let it fester in the darkness.

Take it to him. He's your father.

What he'll do is he'll process you through it and at the end.

You will see his goodness, I promise you.

And you can be like David and say the Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want. That's what happens when we go

to him. I want to pivot us to looking at

the word our this. OK, Our Daily Bread.

Right. This whole prayer is stunningly

communal. It doesn't start with my father.

It starts with our father. It's Our Daily Bread and to our

Western sensibilities, to our individualistic culture, this is

incredibly countercultural, right?

There's this way that because we're so focused on the self, we

can take that into our relationship with God, where it

becomes God and me, and then everyone else is over there.

But the reality is, loving God always extends into loving his

people. So when you start praying God

give us Our Daily Bread, you start praying for other people's

needs. You start becoming intimately

involved in the needs of others. That is what it means to take on

that prayer, Alright, It's not just God.

Here's my laundry list of things to do, although God cares about

that laundry list. It's like get to know your

neighbor well enough so you can pray for their calculus exam

next Saturday. Like, that's what that

invitation is into. What does your prayer life look

like? Do you spend time praying for

the needs of others? It's an invitation.

If you start praying for daily bread, you will soon start to

notice a discrepancy between God promising daily bread and in the

presence of the poor, starving and hungry among us.

How do we explain that? To be honest, in the next 10

minutes I can't explain that full discrepancy, but what I can

say is 2 things. The cross assures us that God is

not apathetic, that he's so involved He sacrificed his son,

that his son can't save us. And the resurrection assures

that the redemption of all things is unfolding so that one

day that all tears will be wiped, that one day all pain

will cease, that one day all will be fed at the banquet of

the Lord. Right.

That is what the hope is. But we are in that messy middle

where we do see brokenness of the world, but we see redemption

unfolding. So we're called, I think we're

called by the Spirit to groan, to groan in prayer, and to go

deep for the prayers of those, for the needs of those around

us. I think it also means that we

become the hands and feets of Jesus, right?

Christian love always moves towards the poor, the widow and

the orphan. So not just in prayer, but also

indeed one John 318 says let us not love in Word or talk, but

indeed, and in truth. So there's something about me

loving God that should make me move to using my resources, my

time, my energy, my efforts towards those who have less than

me. And we have a great example of

this in our church. Many people here are involved in

the food hub. Yes.

Can we can we throw woo if you're involved.

So the food hub from Origin helps combat food insecurity.

Dr. Auntie Joanne, Pastor Craig that they know.

I know all of you volunteer. And what do they do?

They provide food for those who have or food insecure, right.

And just this week alone, you guys, 264 households were served

with over 900 people getting food.

That is that is God moving through origin to be the

handsome feet of Jesus. Like, do you see God working in

that? That's the Spirit working even

among starvation and hunger. So for us to pray for Our Daily

Bread, we're moving into the prayer and provision for others.

I also want us to turn and look at the word daily.

OK, it's daily bread. Not weekly, not monthly, not

annually. And I think God does this in His

wisdom because if it was monthly bread, maybe some of us would

show up for a monthly appointment, get our monthly

bread, and we say peace out Jesus for the rest of the month.

And the reality is the reality. God wants us to come for daily

bread every single day, show up, and He's right there, right?

But but the truth is, the truth is the truth is we often long

for more than daily bread that your mind is often consumed with

tomorrow, not even just tomorrow, five years from now,

right? And so there's this impulse of

the human mind to want to go, to be anxious about the future.

And we see this with the Israelites who were just reading

about Exodus 1619 to 21. And Moses said to them, let no

one leave any of it over till the morning.

But they did not listen to Moses.

Some left part of it till the morning and it breadworms and

stink. And Moses was angry with them

morning by morning they gathered it each as much as he could eat.

But when the sun grew hot and melted, OK, so God is providing

daily mana. And they just like to like,

we're gonna hoard this. I'm gonna take this and put it

in our tent for tomorrow's. I can note I have provision for

Sunday. And then they wake up to a

pillow full of maggots. And that's what happens.

That's what happens when we move out of the daily right.

God is saying, hey, you're going to trust my provision for today.

And he shows up. God does it.

For 40 years in the wilderness, God provides daily mana till

they reach Canaan. So in the same way God, when he

tells us, when Jesus tells us to pray, give us this day, Our

Daily Bread. It's an entry into that mindset,

into that practice. God is just like a radically

present day oriented God, right? He says daily bread.

He says new morning mercies, even the phrase this is the day

that the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it.

That's a day we're talking about.

And Jesus even goes to so far to say, why are you worrying about

tomorrow? Each day has its own troubles,

right? So if you have Sunday troubles,

don't pick up Monday troubles. I haven't given you the grace

for Monday troubles, keep it on Sunday.

So part of Christian maturity is focusing on the daily.

Like if you train your mind to focus on the pain of the past or

the worries of the future, you will end up with the mind in

turmoil. This is not just scriptural,

it's psychological, It's science.

And I feel like. I feel like the spirit of our

age is just one of relentless anxiety, this constant busyness.

It's like this throwing our hands up in the air, right?

It's like and I feel like the perfect image to represent that

is a headless chicken. Follow me.

Follow me in this metaphor, this long, long metaphor I'm gonna

explain to you right now. I come from a long line of

Indian farmers. I know you don't know it when

you look at me, but I do. No kings in my lineage, just

Indian farmers. And I actually lived on a farm

for a year in my childhood. I was a farm girl, you guys.

And this is the thing about Indian farmers and Indian

villagers. They're in touch with their

meat. OK?

There's no pink pounds of meat. You can buy it, save on foods

for $20. None of that thinks moo and

squawk before they end up on your table.

And one of these days, when I was on the farm, I learned how

chicken Curry became chicken Curry.

I saw the death of a chicken is essentially what I'm trying to

say. What happened?

What happened? I've been trying to scrub this

image from my mind for years, but what happened is that they

chopped the head, chicken's head off.

They decapitated. Did you know that when you take

the head of a chicken off that the neck and body can still

move, that will run and run and run without its head and then

collapse into a small dying heap?

Why am I bringing up decapitated chickens?

It's a great question. I when I was preparing for the

sermon I was like that is the image of our age, the striving,

this racing, this race to nothing, busy climbing,

achieving like for what? Headless chickens and

Christians. Christians enter into this

pattern, right? Can I tell you the solution?

Eat your daily bread. Like, believe in God's

provision. Like really believe in a God who

has redeeming your past, who's working in your present, and

who's preparing your future, and discipline your mind to do that.

It really goes back to knowing who God is, you guys.

Like if we actually believe in a Father who sits on a throne with

billions of angels at His command, who loves you.

And we believe in a Jesus who's sitting right next to him, who

also loves you, who's praying for you, by the way.

And we believe that we're inhabited by the spirit of God,

who's in us, counseling us, teaching, advising.

How can we stay in a constant state of worry?

Like, if we really catch that revelation and we keep it in our

mind, we meditate on it. I think it's a it's a real, real

solution to the anxiety of our age.

So that's an invitation of daily bread, right?

Like the problem is not that we have problems.

You're always going to have problems.

Your problem is that your problems look bigger than God.

This is why A W Tozer says as God is exalted to the right

place in our lives, 1000 problems are solved all at once.

So let God become bigger in your mind than your problems.

Sing it, praise it, read it until it's your reality.

Eat the daily bread. I want to close us with pointing

the connection between Jesus saying this is give us this day

Our Daily Bread, and Jesus as the living bread right over and

over Jesus calls himself the bread.

We read this in John 6:30 when he says what sign then will you

John 6:30

give that we may see it and believe you?

What will you do? Our ancestors ate the mana and

the wilderness as it is written. He gave them bread from heaven

to eat. Jesus said to them very truly, I

tell you, it is not Moses who has given you bread from heaven,

but it is my Father who gives you true bread from heaven.

For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from

heaven and gives life to the world.

Sir, they said, always give us this bread.

Then Jesus declared, I am the bread of life.

Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes

in me will never be thirsty. Jesus is not talking about

ordinary hunger or ordinary thirst.

He's talking about your soul's hunger for Him, right?

Like if you got the mansion and the great spouse and a six

figure salary and the 2.5 kids and the golden retriever, there

would be something in you that would still feel like there's

this like hole, like something that needs to be filled.

And that's not a mistake. The very reason for your

existence, for your creation, was to Make Love him, to know

him, to have him be the lover of your soul.

And the problem is, we know this, but we have other voices,

idols. Things pop up in our heart to

take the throne of our hearts. And these idols, they have

voices, they whisper, They tell you what life is really about.

They give you stories, right one common one, finding your true

love, that salvation is in the arms of a lover.

Or hey, you know you'll know you're worthy when you go up

that career ladder and you get to the top and you're higher and

faster than anyone else. Or filling your life with

material possessions shows you a person of value.

Like when you can do good things and, like have good things,

that's when you know you made it.

Or pleasing your parents or people group.

Like if you can do that, you've made it.

And none of those things are in of themselves are bad.

They're not. But they can't be ultimate.

They can't be God. They can't handle the weight of

that because when they do get elevated, they cause death,

physical, spiritual, emotional death.

So what's the solution? The gospel, the gospel comes to

oppose and radically transform those stories, right?

It comes to tell you, hey, this is the capital T true story,

that by fellowshipping with God daily, hearing him daily, seeing

his beauty daily the beauty and glory of the gospel dwarfs

everything else. And you realize Jesus is life

and life abundant, that he is my true love, that he is the joy I

could want, He is all my riches. When Jesus calls himself the

living Bread, he's inviting you into life.

This is why Revelations 320 says, behold, I stand at the

door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and

opens the door, I will come to him and eat with them and he

with me. If we become a people who eat at

Jesus table, I think we would find that a lot of our needs are

taken care of, that we would grow in love for others and that

the love and peace of God would coat our souls, that we would

find our souls satisfied by him and I want to end.

As we move into communion and we eat of the bread, we're

reminding ourselves of Jesus the bread of life, that we open

ourselves in receiving Him. To be the provider of your

physical, emotional, spiritual needs today, join me in prayer.

Father, we thank you. We thank you that we are beloved

children and that you're a father who cares for our needs,

who sees things that others can't see.

Give us the humility to come this week to you for daily bread

for the rest of our lives. And I pray that the places that

are hurting, that haven't been examined in a wild that your

light would touch it and it would heal it.

We thank you for all that you do for us.

In your beautiful name we pray. Amen.

It truly be who you've created us to be.

Would you return the joy of our salvation to each of us as we

confess to you our need of you, as we confess to you how we have

left you, how we may have hardened our heart towards you?

As we confess to the shallow activities and busyness of our

lives where we've neglected to the true bread of heaven, oh

Lord, return that joy to us. It's only in this way that we

can endure the hardship of this life.

It's the only way that you and yourself endured the cross.

And so we remember the scripture says that on the night that

Jesus was betrayed, he met with his disciples and he took bread

and he broke it. And when he had given thanks, he

shared it with them and said, Take eat this in remembrance of

me. In the same way, after the

supper, Jesus took the cup and he said, This cup is the new

covenant in my blood. Do this whenever you drink it in

remembrance of Me. The scripture says that whenever

you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the

Lord's death until he comes again.

Lord Jesus, come, come quickly. So I grew up with a very funny

Southern phrase in the United States.

That went something like this. You blessed our socks off.

OK, Do you know that phrase? If you've ever done Origin kids

out of and Acadia, we used to say our goal tonight is to bless

their socks off, right? That those kids would lose their

socks. Hey, I lost my socks.

That was so good. You just blessed our heart.

Yeah. Tell her thank you.

So good. I'm delighted in what the Lord

has done among us today. Let's give our blessing to each

other today. Now may the God of peace make

you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and

body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.

God will make this happen, for He who calls you is faithful.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Amen. See you next week.