Daily Bread Prayer | John Challinor

We're that normal. If you're here and you're

like, what is this? This is how normal we are.

We're family and family enjoys just banter, right?

Like family enjoys banter. Here's what I know

about life. And I know this because I'm living

it right now. Life is hard. Life is hard. And

life can be hard unexpectedly. And we were made

to need each other. We were made for community.

And in my own life this week, there have been

needs that came out of nowhere, that community

has been wrapped around and been loving us. And

I'm not ready to get into all those details yet.

At some point, I will. But just know that, like,

if you're here and you go, what is this about?

Here's my hope. That you would see a group of

people that believe Jesus so much that they put

themselves in community because he calls his

family. That when you see the way the family

of God treats and cares and loves that you go,

hey, this is not this authentic nature of community

is not available anywhere else on the planet

other than in the family of God. And it points

you to Jesus. And I hope because you are with

the family, you get to meet Jesus. I guess the

hope in all this, because he's the only thing

that's going to change. He's the only thing that

is going to change your life for the better.

He's the only one that's going to empower you

to live the life he always intended you to live,

being human. And so we're just we're just here

going, hey, we're a bunch of people, normal,

ordinary, football, loving football, hating some

of you. Right. People that we're just stumbling

towards Jesus and stumbling towards this God

who is good in nature and loves us. And we don't

even deserve it. And yet he loves us so much.

And so if that's you and you're here and you're

like, I'm trying to figure this out. Welcome.

We're glad you're here. Maybe you're across the

screen and you're like, I didn't know I was getting

that today. And you're welcome. We're glad you're

here. With that, we do these things called collections,

right? Collections of talks. I know some people

have an issue with collections of talks because

they're like, it's a series, okay? Okay, if you

go to Netflix and a new series comes out, what

do you do with that series that you've been waiting

for? You binge it. And then what do you do? You

forget about it. Right? Like, when's the next

one coming out? Right? Okay. The hope of this

is as we spend time together in a collection,

the hope is that the Holy Spirit gives you something

from the Bible about God, about your life, about

Jesus, that you just go, man, I got to hold on

to that. I got to collect that. Right? Because

what do you do with a collection? You keep it.

It's valuable to you. And so the hope is that

as we spend time together, this becomes valuable

to you and you walk away holding something that

will transform and move your life in the direction

that God has for you. So we're in a collection

of talks. And that collection of talks specifically

has been wrapped around prayer and the idea that

we need to do something different. And I'm speaking

to myself because this is where it came from.

I realized one day my prayer life's not good.

I'm going to change my prayer life. How do I

do that? Man, I got to. I got to read a book.

And in reading the book, I got really mad at

God. And in getting mad at God, I discovered

I don't need more information. I need more transformation

through action in my life. That if I'm going

to have a prayer life and I'm going to be close

and intimate the way God died to connect me to

him, to give that to me, then here's what I need

to do. I just have to pray. Right? Like it's

like somebody who goes, I just want to be healthy,

but then they don't do anything to get healthy.

You know what I mean? You're like, you're never

going to be healthy. That's just the reality

of what you're doing. If you want to pray, the

only way to pray is you've got to pray. Right?

Like that's it. It's that simple. You just have

to pray. And along with that, we talk week one

that we've got to reframe what prayer is. And

so prayer is this gift that waters into life.

Prayer brings us to water into life all the things

that God's put inside of you that he always intended

to be a part of your life, to grow and mature,

right? And then we talked about as you pray,

another gift is as you pray, you end up seeking

and seeking leads you to find a person and person

leads you to a table that we had over here. And

at the table, hopefully what happens as you sit

face to face with God, you have honest conversation

and discover that he's provided everything you

will ever need. to grow and mature into who he's

called you to be. And then last week, if you

were here, we had leaf blowers and generators

and all kinds of different stuff. But the big

idea behind it was this, that prayer is a gift

because it ties you back into the purpose and

mission that God has always had for you. Prayer

is the way that the power of heaven is released

through you. That when you engage in prayer,

what you're doing is you're taking the connection

that cost Jesus his life and I'm plugging into

it to allow the Holy Spirit to flow through me.

And I join God in co -shaping and co -managing

and bringing the resources of heaven into the

present moments of life. That prayer has the

power to do that. One of the clearest ways we

see this is when we see somebody who is sick,

who needs healing, and God shows up. Can I just

tell you that I've had two people in the last,

like last night and then this morning, share

that they decided they were going to take this

idea of prayer and they were going to pray big

prayers. And both of them had to do with cancer

and healing. And both of them this morning talked

about and last night talked about that God has

showed up and has healed what was sick. This

is why you being plugged into the resources of

heaven is so important, and the way that it is

released is through prayer. So Jesus says you're

going to pray specifically, right? Now that brings

us to today. Have you ever been in a situation

where you might have been the person that had

the means to help somebody else, and they knew

that you had the means to help them? Often this

happens when you travel. For me, I got to go

to Kenya a bunch of years ago. And specifically,

there's a vision trip of how could Heights partner

with some of the things that are happening within

Kenya. And so we got to go to these areas, these

different slums, and one of them was massive.

It was so large, it just sprawled and sprawled

and sprawled. But on the way to the slum, here's

what was interesting. On the way to the slum,

Up on the hill, there was a school that looked

like Hogwarts, right? Like it had been kind of

designed after Hogwarts. So you had this Harry

Potter -esque school on the hill that was private

for the rich people. And then roughly about seven

miles, I think it was, you got to this slum that

had so many people, I couldn't count them. And

by slum, I mean like... There's human waste on

the path. It wasn't a street. We're talking a

narrow path between houses and human waste on

the ground. There's these shacks that barely

holding together. Anything they could find had

been kind of put to make a shelter of some sort.

And wouldn't you know that as we're visiting

and we're sitting down, they're looking at me.

and going, you can help, right? They're going,

you're a person of means. You can make a difference

about this. And so what is the natural thing

to do? They ask. I don't know, just a side note,

you guys, we don't realize how blessed we actually

are. You know what I mean? Like we whine about

the stupidest stuff sometimes, don't we? And

yet sitting in that moment and realizing, realizing,

To them and their situation, yes, I have the

means to transform what's in front of me. And

what was the natural thing for them to do? Because

they recognize that, to ask. And I think that's

what Jesus is kind of building within Matthew.

We read these verses last week, but in Matthew

chapter six, you remember the context was the

disciples have asked him. Would you teach us

how to pray? And you can go back and kind of

hear the frame up to this, but this is his response

to how to pray. This then is how you should pray.

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,

right? So our Father, so relational connection

to this heavenly being, to this supreme being.

but you're my father, so there's relationship,

and your name is higher than any other. There's

no name, right? So when you were just praying

during worship, and you were reordering, like

I've made it about other stuff, and it's about

you because you're the highest, that's what this

is getting at, right? Like this prayer is, your

name is the highest. Verse 10, your kingdom come,

your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

If you were here last week, we talked about this,

that this is connected to this massive purpose

and mission that God has always had for humanity,

that you would be someone who would reflect the

image of God, who would take the resources that

God has provided, the resources of heaven, and

you would bring them into this moment. And essentially

heaven would crash into earth because of you.

And what would happen, and his transformation

of your world around you that looks an awful

lot like God and an awful lot like what he is

building within his kingdom. The things that

he stands for have come into this space. And

so in this moment, you have this big purpose

mission. And then the very next verse is this,

give us today our daily bread. Hey God, would

you give us what we need today? It takes it from

this big lofty, and then notice what happens

next, verse 12. And forgive us our debts as we

also have forgiven our debtors. Anyone that you've

ever had to walk the path of forgiveness, you

know how large forgiveness is, right? Like this

idea goes from the big purpose mission of what

God always intended to, hey, would you give us

what we need back up to... This idea of forgiveness

that cost Jesus, cost God his very life to provide

forgiveness. And we're claiming that forgiveness

in prayer. So again, back to this huge theological

scope. And then the very next thing he says is

this. This is how you should pray. And lead us

not into temptation, but deliver us from the

evil one. Now we're into the cosmic battle of

the universe between God and his enemy. Like,

would you protect? So you have in the same prayer.

You have the big vastness of God, right? Like

you're the name above all other names. You've

got this heaven crashing to earth purpose, mission,

co -manage. The earth would be shaped by the

kingdom of God. Your kingdom come, your will.

And then out of that, you get this moment where

it's like, and give us what we need. Give us

today our daily bread. And then we're back to

this big. vast forgiveness, hardest thing to

do. One of the hardest things to do, if we're

honest, being human, forgive another person,

right? And yet the God of the universe has forgiven

us. And so out of that, and then you have this

cosmic battle. You have the hinge point of this

prayer is found in the dirt of today. This is

Jesus teaching us how to pray. And he goes, hey,

your mission and purpose is God's pulling you

back. You've got so much purpose to your life.

You matter so much because you're shaping the

kingdom of God. And you also give us today our

daily bread. It's a daily bread kind of prayer.

You know what I love about daily bread kind of

prayer? Is daily bread. renounces the idea that

God is distant. Here's what I mean, right? Like,

cause sometimes we can think like God is, God

is busy, you guys. He's running the universe.

He don't have time to worry about the little

things of life. God doesn't really have time

to worry about if your football swag matches

or not. God doesn't have time to worry about

if you got that parking space. God doesn't have

time to worry about your eyebrows. God's got

other things he's doing. And if we're not careful,

we can make God distant. God's out there. He

only shows up in your life for the big things.

He only shows up for the kingdom come prayers.

But what Jesus teaches us is what? Give us today

our daily bread, which pulls God from distant

and brings him to the present, to the dirt. under

your feet right now, the needs you walk through

the door with. I like it. It renounces this idea

that God's just out there. He don't really care

what you do today. That's not true. Jesus teaches

us that what? That in the daily bread prayer,

we pull God into the present. Daily bread prayers

renounce that God is distant and it brings him

into the present of your life right here, right

now. And what I think Jesus is doing with this,

there's something much greater going on with

the daily bread prayer. Because daily bread prayers,

think about them, right? Like the idea of daily

bread. What do you need today to live the life

that God gave you? Like what is it in your life

that you go, hey, this is a need today. And God,

right? Like that's an idea of a daily bread prayer

that I'm just going to tell God what I need to

be able to live the life that he's put me in.

Then on top of that. Right? There's this repetition.

It's a daily bread. In fact, daily bread prayers,

when you get into the original language, it's

not a, I wake up and I say it. It's a continuous

throughout my day, moment by moment, I'm inviting

the God of the universe into the dust of my day.

Right? Like the idea that God is meeting me in

the midst of the real time things that are happening

in my life. It's a daily consistent. What do

you need today? But I think there's something

else going on here. What I mean is this. I think

it's connected back to where we were last week.

If you remember last week, we were in Genesis,

and we talked about this idea that your kingdom

come, your will be done, is connecting to the

overarching reason for humanity even existing.

Well, I think this week, with a daily bread prayer,

that what daily bread prayers are doing is they're

found in what happens in chapter 3 of Genesis.

Verse 1 says this, Now the serpent was more crafty

than any of the wild animals the Lord had made.

What you need to know if you're not familiar

with the Bible is that this is a moment where

the enemy of God, who is Satan, has taken the

form of a serpent, and in the form of a serpent

has showed up to his perfect creation, and now

he's going to have a conversation with the humans.

He said to the woman, did God really say you

must not eat from any tree in the garden? The

woman said to the serpent, we may eat a fruit

from the trees of the garden, but God did say

you must not eat from the tree that is in the

middle of the garden and you must not touch it

or you will die. Now, chapter two, we know that

God didn't say that. She embellishes, she adds

to it to try and add clarity, right? Notice what

the enemy does. The enemy jumps on that. You

will not certainly die, the serpent said to the

woman, for God knows that when you eat from it,

your eyes will be opened and you will be like

what? God. You're not going to die. You will

be like God, knowing good and evil. When the

woman saw that the fruit of the tree. was good

for food and pleasing to the eye and also desirable

for gaining wisdom. She took some of it, some

and ate it. She also gave some to her husband

who was with her and he ate it. Then the eyes

of both of them were open and they realized they

were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together

and made coverings for themselves. So what you

get is you get the enemy of God showing up. And

the enemy of God brings lies to the humans, which

what happens in that moment, the enemy or the

humans follow those lies. They believe what they

are told. And what you end up with is now the

humans doing something they have never done before,

experiencing things they've never experienced

before because they bought into the lie of the

enemy. Here's what I'd like to propose to you.

That when we say, give us. give us our daily

bread, there is far more going on than you realize.

Here's what I mean. The idea of asking, right?

The idea that you would ask someone for something.

If I was to come to you and ask you for the keys

to your car, right? Because I got to walk home.

I'm taking all control, right? I'm making myself

vulnerable. to bring you into my story and what?

I'm placing my need in your hands and you have

the choice, you have the power, you have the

determination, you have the option to grant or

not, to disappoint or make me very happy, right?

Like you have that in your hands. Asking naturally

makes us vulnerable, which guess what? As humans,

that's why we don't like it. We don't like to

be vulnerable. We don't like to be in, four -letter

word, need. There is not anybody in this room

that goes, oh, I like to be needy. In fact, we

use needy as a bad term, right? Like, oh, you're

so needy, right? It's a negative. And in this

context, we're told by God to what? To ask because

you have need. Okay, now, bigger picture. What

is happening in a daily bread prayer is you,

you are declaring war on the enemy's lies in

your life. Daily bread prayers, the most simple

of simple of simple prayer, declares war on the

enemy's lies in your life. Here's what I mean.

Maybe this will help us catch it. You ever played

the game war, anybody? Right? Like you're going

to take a deck of cards. You divide them up evenly.

Give one stack to one person. One stack to another

person. Right? And then if you haven't played,

here's how it goes. You take turns flipping a

card. And you flip a card. And if the other card

is higher than yours, that person wins. Right?

I wonder, I wonder in our declaration of war

by our daily bread prayers, here's what I mean.

We declare war on the lies of the enemy. So the

enemy plays his first card, right? The enemy

plays his first card. That you can be God. Right?

You be your own God. You do you. You don't have

to sit under the authority of God. You, you can

be your own God. It's your life. You can be the

supreme being of your life. You don't need, isn't

it interesting, a daily bread prayer. Remember

how it starts? Our Father, and if you're like

me, you learned it in another language, who art

in heaven. I don't know why we put art in there,

but there you go. Our Father in heaven. Your

name is higher than any other. So simply, simply,

according to Jesus, when I go and I go, hey,

God, I'm hungry. Can you provide? What did I

just do? I go, you are God. And I am not. God,

I submit to your authority. This need reminds

me that you are God. And so I come with the daily

bread prayer. I declare war on the lie of the

enemy, that I have to be God, that I have to

be all the attributes that you are. I deny that.

And what I actually do is I just declare you

are God. Simply by going, can you give me today

what I need? Because if not, I'm just talking

to Bluey in the sky, right? Right? If not, I'm

just talking to whatever. But when I frame up

who I'm actually asking, what I've instantly

done is gone, I am not God, you are God. So therefore,

I win this hand on the enemy's lies. The enemy

throws out the idea that, hey, you're in control.

You know what's interesting in the fall? And

when I say fall, when sin entered the world and

every single human that was born from that point,

guess what? We were all born control freaks.

Some of you more so than others. We're not judging.

That's okay. But we all love to be in control,

whether you admit it or not. Some of you are

just not good at hiding it. Other people are

good at hiding it. But you know that we all love

control because when you are out of control,

watch the response of the person. And you notice,

you notice. We love being in control. We like

to manage. And what the enemy tells us is, hey,

you're fully in control. You can manage your

world. You can hold all the cards in all the

places and you can do all the right things. And

here's how you do it. And just in case you really

need help, there's chat GPT and you can ask it

how to become rich and it'll tell you all the

steps and you're in control of your destiny.

The enemy plays the lie that you can have control

over your life. And so what does a daily bread

prayer do? It reminds me that God's in control.

God, I don't got this. Isn't it interesting,

you guys? We're so fragile. You know how I know?

You'll be hungry by dinner. You know how disconnected

we are from God's control over our daily bread?

That we have these things called credit cards.

Because if you get too hungry and you don't have

money, well, I'll just put it on the credit card.

But it was never meant to be that way. You see,

I think what society has done and what the enemy

has done a great job of is actually you're in

control and you can manage your own way. Just

go back. Just go back. Most of human history

has been reliant upon rain. Because if it didn't

rain, nothing grew. And if it didn't grow, you

didn't eat. Right. So the food is supposed to

be a reminder, like just a simple thing like

food. We're not even talking about your health.

We're not even talking about finances like all

of those go into it. We're not talking about

the relationships that you're trying to control.

See, when I release a relationship to God, hey,

God, I'm not doing well at controlling this person

like we think that's a good thing. Right. Like

that should work out. I'm reminded that the enemy's

lie is that I have control and what I realize

is God's in control. And so. I win that hand.

Two nothing in case you keep in score. So the

enemy, another one of his lies, independence.

You guys are Americans. I've learned that you

love your what? Oh, you guys are all, man, you're

in church. You should not be lying. You love

your independence. You know how I know? You have

a day to celebrate your independence. England's

no better. Trust me. They got their own ways

to celebrate it. Why? Because the enemy lies

to us that we don't need anybody else. We can

be independent. We can control things. We can,

right? And so what happens with independence

is it also pushes you away from people. Right?

Like all of a sudden, I don't need you. I don't

need God. I don't need because I'm independent

of all of that. And what a daily prayer, a daily

bread prayer does is it goes, God, I am deeply

independent on you. Right? It's just the words

that I got to ask God to provide something instantly,

instantly frames up that I am dependent on you

to provide. That in my independence, I can't

even do a little thing. And so God, I'm deeply

dependent. Now you go back to creation. That's

how we were intended to be, dependent on God.

What does the enemy come along and do? Go, no,

you don't need to be dependent on God. You got

this. You can be God. You can figure this out.

Three nothing. The enemy's lie is that God's

not trustworthy. You can't trust him. And what

does the enemy do? He'll tell you some story,

bring something to mind. He'll tell you a moment

where it should have worked out this way and

it didn't work out that way. So really, God,

is God trustworthy? What is he doing to the woman

in the garden? He's showing up and going, I don't

think you can trust God because he didn't really

tell you the whole truth because he said you

would die. You ain't really gonna die. What is

he doing? He's taking the God and he's shaping

God into this image that, God, you are not trustworthy.

And what does a daily bread prayer do? It goes,

God, I trust you. My trust is in you. If you

don't show up, God, if you don't show up, this

thing I'm facing, it's going to be too much.

There's this idea that the enemy wants to tell

you you can't trust God and what a daily bread

prayer does. As simple as it is, is it puts me

in a posture of trust to this God that I am not,

who I am dependent on, right? And so we win that

hand. He wants you to be self -sufficient. He

wants you to be self -made. He wants you to believe

that you can just do you, you be you. You can

be whatever you wanna be. You work it out. Your

future's dependent on you and nobody else. And

so we have all these like life coaches and books,

self -help books, and all of them are gonna tell

you how to be the best version of you because

you don't need nobody. You just need you and

you can be self -sufficient and self -made and

everyone will look up to you and go, wow. You

were never meant to be like that. You know what

you were meant to be? So we, in a daily bread

prayer, go, God, I'm reliant on you. You were

never meant to be self -sufficient. You were

meant to be God -reliant. You were designed to

rely on a God who is good in nature, in his character,

who has your best. My best, who is bending the

universe to look like his kingdom come and his

will be done. And you are invited through daily

bread prayers to align your soul to what? To

say, God, I'm reliant on you. And so what happens

is, what happens is we're at five nothing now.

I love that. Philippians chapter four. And if

you've been around church and you're hearing

a message on prayer, you're like, I knew he'd

go to this. You're right. I'm predictable. But

what's interesting is I think these verses define

for us what a daily prayer, daily bread prayer

looks like. So the daily bread prayer that is

declaring war on the enemy's lies, this is what

it sounds like. Starts in verse four, rejoice

in the Lord always. I say it again, rejoice.

Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord

is near. So there's the premise of what he's

about to say, that the Lord is near. He is in

the details. He is in the dirt of your day. The

Lord is near. And then it says, do not be anxious

about anything. Okay, so just a quick pause on

being anxious, right? The enemy wants to convince

you of all those lies. And guess where those

lies lead? To you believing you have control,

to you trying to manage your life, to you being

overwhelmed, exhausted, and anxious. How do I

know that? Take a look, take a survey of our

society that is so advanced. Take a look at our

society and look at the rates of... anxiousness,

overwhelmness, depression, exhaustion, suicide

is higher than it's ever been. How are we doing?

Right, like something's gotta change. And then

what it's getting at here, when it talks about

anxious, it's like a windshield, right? Like

you drive around here, we put stuff on the roads

to help us not slide off the roads, but inevitably

what happens? One flies up and what does it do?

Hits your window and you're like, oh. I got a

little buddy now. And you're like, it's not that

bad. And all of a sudden you get another one.

But it's okay because they're not hanging out.

But you're like, I should do something about

that. And once you know it, a third buddy shows

up and all of a sudden it just... That's the

picture of anxiety. It shatters us. It separates

us. And that's what it's getting at here is the

effects of believing the enemy's lies. The effects

of sin in our world shows up that we are shattered

on the inside. You can know Jesus and be shattered

on the inside. Right? Like this isn't, oh, well,

if you knew Jesus, then everything would be better.

No, you can know Jesus and still be living under

the enemy's lies, which is why Jesus teaches

us to what? Pray daily bread prayers. Why? Because

daily bread prayers not only declare war on the

enemy's lies, they declare war on the enemy's

effects and sin's effects. Here's what I mean.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every

situation, that sounds like all of life, every

day, kind of daily bread kind of stuff. By prayer,

that first word for prayer there is prayer. Just

talking to God. So anxious, enter into talking

to God, which is community, which is relational.

Enter in and talk to God. To which, then it says,

and petition. If you were here the first week,

we talked about a word called supplication. That's

the word petition. What that means is this, that

it's the emotion of the moment combined with

the. urgency. So I'm just talking to God, but

what's combined is the emotion that I have and

the urgency of the moment. Remember daily bread

prayers. If you're hungry and you have no resource

for food, how desperate are you? I got to eat

God, right? Like you're crying out to him. It's

urgent and there's emotion to it. If my marriage

just fell apart, guess what? There's emotion

and there's urgency. That's that idea of petition,

right? That you would be talking to God, but

in the midst of it, bring the urgency and the

emotion to it. And then it carries on. It says,

with thanksgiving, we're gonna talk about that

next week, present your requests to God. You

know what that word request is? Be specific.

Tell God exactly what you need. Because sometimes,

sometimes, I don't know about you, we're real

vague. What do I mean by that? God, just be present

with them. He's already present. So how about

instead of just, God, be present, we go, God,

I know you're there. Will you do this for them?

Be specific, right? Like that's what that word

means, request. Be specific. So be urgent, bring

the emotion in a conversation with God and, and

tell him exactly. What you need. And notice what

happens. Remember, this is waging war on what?

The effects of the enemy, the effects of sin.

And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding,

will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ

Jesus. And the peace of God. So wait, I came

with just a daily bread prayer. And what I did

is I waged war on what? The effects. Because

I've been believing the enemy's lies. So what

happens is I wage war on all those lies. I'm

not believing those no more. God, I'm going to

trust you. I'm dependent on you. God's in control.

You are God. I'm not. And what happens, what

happens is the effects of sin in my life by bringing

my daily bread, by bringing them into the dirt,

what happens is the peace of God, the peace of

God, the shalom of God, the wholeness, wholeness,

remember, if anxiety is to split apart, wholeness

is to be put back together. And this is how easy,

one more story we've done. This is how easy Jesus

says it is to pray. Luke chapter 11, right before

Luke 11 · chapter mention

this is the prayer that we were just talking

about. The prayer that ties us back to the purpose,

ties us into this cosmic battle and brings us

to daily bread in the middle. This is the next

thing that Jesus said in Luke. Chapter 11, verse

Luke 11 · chapter mention

five. Then Jesus said to them, suppose you have

a friend and you go to him at midnight and say,

friend, lend me three loaves of bread. A friend

of mine on a journey has come to me and I have

no food to offer him. And suppose the one inside

answers, don't bother me. The door is already

locked. My children and I are in bed. I can't

get up and give you anything. Anybody else go,

that's me. You come to my house and I'm in bed

and my kids are in bed and everything's locked.

Go away. I tell you, even though he will not

get up and give you the bread because of friendship,

yet because of your shameless audacity, he will

surely get up and give you as much as you need.

Jesus goes on to say after this, he compares

it to a father, that you earthly fathers know

how to give good gifts. Imagine, imagine, and

you're broken, right? Like you're sinful. You're

selfish. Imagine how much a perfect heavenly

father can give good gifts and wants to give

good gifts to his kids. That's what he compares

it to. But how did you get there? He goes, this

is easy. Praying is as easy as going to your

neighbor. Got any flour? I got to make some bread.

It's that easy. Jesus, the prayers that fight

the enemy's lies and effects in your life, Jesus

goes, it's as easy as going to your neighbor

and going, hey, I got some guests coming over,

and I'm just wondering, we're out of flour, could

I borrow some? It's that easy. Now, what that

teaches me is anyone can do that. That teaches

me you can do that. Sometimes when it comes to

prayer, I think, and we're going to fight the

enemy's lies and all that. I think we go, oh,

okay, I need a priest. I need a pastor. I need

somebody who's in a position of the church. No,

no, no. What Jesus teaches is you go ask the

neighbor for flour. You go to your heavenly father

and go, I need some flour. And so here's what

we're going to do. We're going to end. with a

time of you praying, daily bread kind of prayers.

What do you need? You posturing yourself to ask

your heavenly father for what you need. What's

in the dirt of your day, so to speak? And you're

just gonna ask God, hey, here's what I need today.

Here's what my daily bread is today. Would you

provide? Would you show up? Would you give? This

is just really simple. God, would you give flower

today? And then here's what we're gonna do. We're

gonna worship after. Can I just share something

with you guys? Some of you are prone to leave

at the end, like music starts and you're like,

I'm out of here. Now, I know some of you gotta

be places. I get that. I understand that. But

the team that God has entrusted to your spiritual

care works so hard, pour time and effort and

conversations into what happens after, after

what you may think is a throwaway song we believe

the Holy Spirit wants to use in your life. And

some of you, it pains me because you miss it.

You miss it. And we believe that in your response,

God is going to move in your soul. So don't miss

what God has for you. So we're going to spend

time just intentionally praying, and then we're

going to worship. But the next moments are yours

to have a daily bread prayer with God.