Praying Like Jesus: Give Us Today Our Daily Bread (Andrew Meher)

give us today our daily bread: Love to invite you to open up to Matthew chapter 6. Matthew chapter 6. We're going to continue our teaching series that we have been in this fall. Learning how to pray like Jesus. How many of you think it'd be a good idea to pray like Jesus? Jesus was pretty good at that prayer thing. Right? That's maybe an overstatement. When Jesus did stuff and prayed, things happened. And it boggled his disciples' minds. So much so that the the version of the Lord's Prayer that that we see in Luke 11, it starts with the disciples coming to Jesus and saying, Lord, teach us to pray. Now they grew up in a culture that we would think knew how to pray. They had the Old Testament scriptures, they had the book of Psalms, which is a great school in learning how to pray appropriate prayers to God, and they still had all that, and they still said, Jesus, you're doing something different. Lord, teach us to pray. And so we have been kind of following that the disciples' request to Jesus ourselves as a church. And we've been asking the Lord for the last several weeks, teach us to pray. And we've been using the Lord's Prayer, which is the prayer that Jesus gave us, to help us learn what praying like Jesus is all about. Just one thing I want to draw your attention to as we before we get to our text for today. you'll notice we're now halfway through the Lord's Prayer. Halfway through, and you'll notice that we have not yet asked God for anything. The entire prayer up till this point has all been about directing us to our Father. Who is available for us and knows what we need and loves us unconditionally and is always there. We pray, our Father, we pray, hallowed be your name, that you are holy, that God's holiness would always be before us and would shape us and change us and make our desires look like his desires. And then we prayed, your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Right? And we're praying that we would have God's desire and God's agenda and our and his will. Will and be focused on his kingdoms and not the kingdoms of this world. And that has been what we've been praying: that we all of God would be filling all of us. And we have to do that. And Jesus is intentional about doing all that before we ask for anything. Because when we are not praying from the proper posture of being filled with the life of God, we start asking for some weird stuff. We might think it's really good. We might even have scripture in verse that we think supports what we're asking for from God. But if we are not first filled up with the life of our Father, with His holiness, with His kingdom and His will, we won't really know what to ask for. And this is often why many of us, I pray and I pray, and nothing happens. This is because we have to learn how to pray in line with the Father's will. And so that's what we've been doing the first few weeks. And now we are finally at a place where we can begin to make the first of three petitions they're called. We're going to ask the Father for three things in the second half of the prayer. And the first one that we're going to ask for today is that the Lord would give us our daily bread. And this is the first time in the prayer that we are asking the Father for anything. So let's, we're gonna look at a text that immediately follows, just shortly after the Lord's Prayer. And this will give us a little bit of context for what Jesus is trying to do and what Jesus is teaching us about prayer in that line of the Lord's Prayer. Let's look in Matthew chapter 6. We're gonna read verse 24, verse 24 down to verse 34. This is still in the Same flow of Jesus' teaching where he has just given them this prayer to pray, and right soon after that he says these words. No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life. What you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear? Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air. They do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you By worrying, can add a single hour to his life. And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow? They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire. Will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, What shall we eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what shall we wear? For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness. And all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Let's pray. Jesus, again, we just ask, as you have been doing this morning, that we would be able to trust you enough to step out of our self-protection. Lord, especially as we consider this text and these words that you spoke to us. We pray, Lord, that you would fill us with the love of the Father so we can step into all that the Father wants to give us this morning. In your name, Lord Jesus, we pray. Amen. I'm not a big fan of the Simpsons. I don't know if any of you like the Simpsons or have gotten into the Simpsons. Any Simpsons fans in the room? No one? One? We've got one Simpsons family. Okay, maybe it's not that popular anymore. But but there's this great episode or this clip that I've seen where it's I think it's in like one of the early seasons of The Simpsons. And the the Simpson family, obviously they're not big prayers, but they have someone really important over for dinner. And and so, you know, Homer's trying to make it look like they do this all the time. And so Homer Homer looks at Bart and says, Bart, would you like to say grace? And Bart says, Sure, Dad. And we know Bart's the troublemaker, of course. And he says, he starts his prayer going, God, we paid for all this ourselves, so thanks for nothing. And then there's like all these, like, everyone freaks out and panics. You're not actually supposed to say that. Now we wouldn't admit what Bart Simpson said so blatantly, but I know in my life, and perhaps it's true in yours as well, that we tend to live like that's actually true most of the time. I know I think about money, and I think about the money I need to make. I think about the bills that I need to pay. I think about the food I need to buy or to cook or to order. I think about the clothes that I need to find. I think about the programs that my kids want to enroll in that I need to pay for. And as a result, I begin to think about everything I have or don't have as being my own doing. We have so much wealth in our society relative to the rest of the world that we have begun to be shaped and formed to think about our wants and needs on our own terms, in and in terms of what do I need to do to get what I need. And we so easily miss the reality, like Bart Simpson does, that we don't actually provide for ourselves. God is the provider of all things. We believe we have no need of this God, though, to help us, and that we're self-sufficient. Or the way C. Clifton Black puts it, he says, we do not have the resources in our culture to recognize our need because of our relative wealth. He goes on to say that we are not well equipped to confess inadequacy. How many of you feel that? I'm not very good at confessing inadequacy. In fact, I needed to ask John and Lindsay to bring the table over here to me this morning because I tweaked my back playing tag last week. We're not really well equipped in our culture to ask others, let alone God, for what we need. And so we chase down our own solutions. We try to figure out everything on our own terms. And we never ask for help. And we only perhaps pray finally when we're desperate and our backs are up against the wall, and there doesn't seem to be other any any other logical or rational solution. In short, because there is so much money in our society, we have been trained to be functional atheists, even if we claim to follow Jesus. But the good news here, as we consider the Lord's Prayer, as we consider the text in Matthew that Jesus continues to teach us on how God provides, the good news is this: Jesus understands our human sinful condition. Jesus understands our propensity to worry, to try to figure everything out on our own. This is exactly why in our text, Jesus says, don't worry about anything. And he says, Don't serve money. Or in some translations, don't serve mammon. Literally, mammon is is a god of wealth and riches. The pursuit of wealth and riches and more. Don't pursue those things, Jesus says. And Jesus is able to ask that we not worry. And Jesus is able to ask that we serve the Father and not mammon. Because just before this teaching, he has given us the resources in prayer that help us break out of our terrible, independent prayers. Jesus has given us a prayer that helps shape and reshape how we think about money, possessions, and what we actually need. How many of you are ready to say amen? How many of you are clutching your wallets a little more closely right now? Jesus teaches us to pray, give us today our daily bread. When we pray this prayer, I want you to see today that it helps us pray with dependence. And it helps us pray in gratitude. And it actually helps us pray for justice. Let's look at each of these ideas briefly so we can see how God wants to teach us to pray. First, when we pray, give us today our daily bread. Jesus is giving us the resources which help us pray with dependence. We can depend on our Father as we learn to pray this way more than any other time that we have ever prayed before. Jesus gives us this first word of this part of the prayer. He says, give. You should pray this: give. All I can think of when I when I hear that, to be honest. Because I'm very independent and I shouldn't have to ask anyone for help. All I can imagine is I can't remember her name, but the sister of John Rafio and Parks and Rec, if you've ever seen the TV show Parks and Recreation. And they're these two adults, super immature adults, and they're still living off their dad, who I think is who's Henry Henry man, I can't think of his name. He anyway, their dad, the guy who plays their dad, he he's really, really wealthy, and these two really dysfunctional brother and sister adults are always coming to their dad for everything they need, and I just keep everything. Time I hear the word give, I hear the sister's voice in my head going, money, please, daddy. Just like this, every single time. And he shells it out every single time. And I go, I don't want to be that. Why would I ask my father in heaven to get? I don't want to be like that. But I want you to have the context of this prayer in mind. Jesus is speaking to a group of people who have absolutely nothing. Scott McKnight, the New Testament scholar, theologian, who's an expert on this first century world, he says this to remind us: we perhaps need to remind ourselves that the followers of Jesus were not wealthy with, and this is how he defines wealthy, with pantries and refrigerators full of food. If they found food somehow that day, it was a miracle. Now, this isn't to say that we just live in a different time and thank God the world's different now, and so we don't need God in that way as much. But this is to help us understand that we here in the United States, especially and in North America generally, live in a completely different social class to how most of the world lives. We cannot even recognize true need and true dependence because even those of us who make very little relative to our Our our own culture are still wealthier than the majority of the world. I want you to pull out your phones real quick, and I've got this QR code on the screen. I'd love for you to scan that real quick. And just put in, it's not saving your information, don't worry. Just put in your basic in household information and your basic household income post-tax. This is totally accurate information. This is based on the latest complete global data we have, which is from the year 2024. This is from a website called How Rich Am I? And it is going to help you see what your your wealth is compared to the rest of the world globally. And while you're looking at that, just approximate. While you're looking at that, let me give you a couple versions of this that I ran. A single adult living in the United States making $45,531 a year, which is you're working 40 hours minimum wage in New Jersey, which is a little over $15 an hour, plus you do an additional 10 hours of overtime at time and a half, puts you at $45,531, right? if you are a single adult living on your own, making that wage, you are wealthier than ninety-seven percent of the world's population. The median household income in West Milford is $132,000, and the average household size is about 2.57 people. So I just said, let's call it two adults and one kid. At that income range, if that's you, you're richer than 96% of the world's population. Then why does it feel like we constantly don't have enough? Not the prices. I'm not saying the prices should be that high. I'm saying that's not why we feel like we don't have enough. People felt like this in the eighties when the prices were low. When our master is money, as Jesus puts it, literally translated mammon, this specific God of wealth and riches, when that is truly our master, we discover that as our master because it begins to shape and form how much money we believe we're supposed to have. And if we never feel like we have enough, we need to ask the question: who am I actually serving? Who am I actually dependent on? We are being shaped into believing even more than that that we don't have enough and we constantly need more, but we're also being shaped into believing, because of how mammon works, that we aren't doing enough personally to provide. Does anyone ever feel like they are morally doing something wrong because they just can't afford something? That's how mammon works. It forces you and condemns you to think you are not doing enough. And when we become dependent on money, I know this sounds counterintuitive, but when we live dependent on money like that, it actually oppresses us instead of setting us free. But when Jesus teaches us to pray, Jesus says, pray, give. Start it with give. When you start asking for your daily needs, pray give. When we pray give, we are confronting the God of this age that says, I cannot provide anything. I am not able to do anything. We are able to confront the God of this age and actually we're able to say, I can't do anything. God needs to do everything. We are saying that any material abundance, any financial security that I do have is a complete illusion. I am dependent on the Father to give me everything I need. This is tends to be a trope for men, but how many of you men were taught that you are supposed to be the provider of your household? Once you follow Jesus, you need to reject that because the Father is our provider. I lived under that lie for so long, and it created so many problems for me. And I got free the day I realized I was actually serving money. And I needed to trust the Father to provide everything that I needed. It is God who provides. And when we begin to pray this first word of this prayer, give, we learn how little we actually need, and how much greater our dependence must come to be upon our Heavenly Father. Think about how we begin this prayer, right? We begin the whole Lord's Prayer with our Father. This sets the tone for everything that's coming and how we pray and how we posture ourselves, like I said in prayer. Remember, the whole first half of the prayer is preparing us to start to ask rightly for things. And when we see our Father who loves us, who cares for us, who already knows what we need before we ask him, then we come to this give and we can receive it entirely differently. See Clifton Black again. He says this. The intimacy of that address, our Father, linked with the assurance that God knows and will satisfy disciples' needs, it quells anxiety about life's necessities and frees Jesus followers from misplaced confidence in mammon. Have you put misplaced confidence in mammon, in money? Is it shaping you to believe you need more, though you will never be satisfied? Brothers and sisters, we need far less than we think we need, and we have far less to worry about than we think we need to. As Jesus said, today has enough problems of its own. And when we're praying to our Father and we begin to ask our Father to give to us what we need, we begin to be shaped into praying with dependence. And this leads us then to continue to pray, and it leads us to pray that we would be praying in gratitude. Notice Jesus doesn't just pray give, but he teaches us to ask the Father to give today our daily bread. Or in Luke's translation, give us every day our daily bread. Daily. We know that we cannot provide anything for ourselves. We need to be dependent on the Father. We need to be dependent on the Father for the world that we live in, all of that's created that the Father created. We have to be dependent on the very breath that the scriptures say that the Father put into us. We need to be dependent on God for our daily provision, all of the gifts that we are completely dependent on God to give us. And then, once we're dependent, we can either do one of two things, we can let that dependency greed contempt, because we think I should be more independent than this. I should be better than this. I should be able to provide something for myself. Or we can allow that dependence to create gratitude and thanksgiving in us. Wow, look what God has given me today. Look what the Father has provided. There is something about focusing on today in what we pray for that cultivates gratitude in us. And thankfulness in us for what we have now. Tomorrow often breeds anxiety. When we're thinking about tomorrow, we are looking ahead. We're looking ahead to a time that's beyond our control, beyond our ability to influence. As much as we might like to think that we can plan for tomorrow, we actually know very little about what's gonna come tomorrow. I didn't think I was gonna throw my back out when I was playing tag with my kids. But these things happen and we don't know they're gonna happen. The Gentile prayers, the pagan prayers that Jesus has referenced, we've talked about throughout this series. They spend a lot of time in their praying worrying and fretting about tomorrow. If the Gentiles, the pagans that that Jesus was observing were in our day, they might be praying things like: give us tomorrow enough money to retire with. They might be praying, give us tomorrow a new car when my current one dies. They might be praying, give us tomorrow a house and a new promotion so that I can expand what I have, because I feel a little cramped. All of this breeds worry, breeds anxiety, and discontentment with what we have today. But when we pray for what we need today, to keep receiving daily the the bread that we need from the Father, it helps. Shape us to be thankful instead of discontent. One of our spiritual practices in our house is typically on Friday nights, if we're all home for dinner, which we usually are, but when we're all home for dinner on Friday nights, we go around our table and we ask each other, what were you thankful for this week? And our our girls have looked forward to this, and sometimes they initiate it now as a practice. And we go around and we ask, what are you thankful for this week? This is a spiritual practice to help us take seriously what Jesus says about asking for today what we need. And so we ask each other what we're what we're thankful for. And you know, this started in our home. We we introduced it with our kids because back when when Gillian and I were were first married early on, there was a season where before our children were born. I was really, really depressed in a particular season of life about my calling, especially into the ministry. And I didn't feel like God was really doing anything in my life. And I kept looking ahead to tomorrow, to God, when are you gonna do when am I gonna be doing this or that or these other things I feel called to? It's just not happening. And I was really down and out. I was working another job full-time. I was working at a church part-time and I was just so frustrated with the way my life was going in that season. And at first, Jillian just started to do this really simple thing where every day, she just started asking me, what were you thankful for today? At the end of the day. And let me tell you, I was so annoyed when she would ask me this question. Like, w I don't even care. Why are you asking me this? This I this is it was I was really, really annoyed. Like you've no idea, I was like, I'm not answering this question. This is ridiculous. She's like, tell what you're telling me. There's gotta be something you were thankful for. And so honestly, I would just be like, I was thankful I left work today. Let me tell you. Like sometimes that's all I had. But each day she would ask. And and she would keep asking. And then after a few months had gone by, I started to kind of go, Hey, are you gonna ask me what I was what I was thankful for today? And then after a little while longer, I started thinking, she's gonna ask me today, I wonder what what what I can be thankful for today. I'm gonna have and I started to pay attention to my day. And it was starting to shape the way I saw what God was doing in today. And I wasn't as worried about tomorrow because I was looking for what God was giving me today, whether it be money from a salary, from a job that I couldn't stand, or whether it was time off, or it was I was able to get out earlier than I thought, or it was a Great time with some friends, or whatever it might have been, or a good time meeting with the Lord, whatever it could have been. And I would just do this day after day, and I didn't realize it, but she had been asking me this for a year. And then one day, I should have grabbed it from my office, I have it upstairs. She handed me this little book called A Year of Gratitude. Yes, I have the best wife in the world. And she handed me this, and it was every single thing I had said I was thankful for for a year. Give us today our daily bread. It shaped me in that year to pray that prayer better because I learned how to look at what God was giving for today's needs. Instead of worrying about what I thought I needed for tomorrow, as Macbeth says, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. That was a Shakespeare reference for like two of you. So when we pray this prayer, what we're doing is we're saying, I am going, we're gonna be intentional about receiving what God has given us for today. Well, what about well actually that's tomorrow? I don't need to worry about that. I just need today. That bill's not due till tomorrow. I don't need that today. What do I need today? And and we don't just we don't just pray that God give us, that the Father give us. We're not just saying, give me all this. We're saying, give me what I need today. Help me be attentive, because the Father already knows what you need, and he begins to say, Give me, let me see what you're giving me today. When we look at tomorrow's bread. We always walk away unsatisfied because God has not given you tomorrow's bread. He's given you today's bread. And we're sitting there not eating what God has given us today because we're looking for what's coming tomorrow. But as we pray, give us today our daily bread, we learn how to pray in gratitude. And when we're praying dependent prayers on God, and we're filled with gratitude, it then empowers us to pray for justice. For justice. For things to be set right in the world when we see that so many things have gone wrong. Now, how may you be wondering, does asking for what I need help me pray for justice? I want you to notice that the prayer is not saying, give me today my daily bread. It doesn't say that, does it? It says, give us today. Our daily bread. Us and our remind us that we are never ever encouraged in the scriptures to pray for our own needs. Jesus teaches us we are encouraged to pray for what we all need. This is probably the thing that stands in starkest contrast to Gentile or pagan prayer that Jesus is looking at. They're constantly anxious, worrying about what they need, what they need, what do I need? What do I need? Jesus-shaped prayer does ask for what we need, but it asks for what we need, not for what I need. And this shapes and changes the way we look at people around us because then we're not just saying, I'm good. We're going, wait, are you good? No, no, no, wait, you're not good. Lord, give us today our daily bread. No, wait, I see that neighbor down the street. They're not, they don't have what they. Lord, give us today our daily bread. And then we see folks living in Patterson going, no, wait, hold on, give us today our daily bread. And then we see that the 96% of the world that we have more wealth than, and we go, hold on a second. Give us today our daily bread. We must recognize that when we pray for what we need individually, we do not pray like Jesus taught us to pray. We pray like Jesus taught us to pray when we are praying for the needs of those who have nothing. Those who have nothing while we often have more than we need. This is Christian teaching that is often, quite frankly, missing from the church in North America because it rails against all of our assumptions that we are to accumulate more and that material wealth and security are actually tied to signs of God's blessing. You remember our blessing series in the summer? How we talked very specifically and clearly, blessing is not tied to stuff or to prosperity in material terms. It is tied to an ever-increasing God's life at work in us, right? When God blesses humanity, he blesses all humanity. And it is the same here. But we have too often associated blessing with material and financial success. And then we don't understand why the rest of the world is not blessed. But this I want you to know is not something I'm pulling out of thin air. The voices of the church throughout history have understood that praying this part of Jesus' prayer doesn't just lead to asking that the whole world get what it needs. It has actually led to not only praying for justice for everyone, it has led to acting justly so that everyone has what they need. In in the Old Testament, the word for peace is the word shalom. And it doesn't mean peace like the absence of any kind of conflict. It peace, shalom actually just means wholeness. If someone does not have what they need, the community is not whole. There is no peace. And it may seem like we're being disruptive to peace by saying, hey, stop, you can't do that. That belongs to someone else. They have a need for that. That might feel disruptive and like it hurts the status quo, but in reality, what the church has told us historically is that is actually how we make peace. How we make justice, how we make wholeness, by praying the Lord's Prayer and then seeing it in action. Let me show you some of the voices of the church that have proclaimed this from more recent times, going all the way back thousands of years. The modern American theologian Stanley Howerwas quipped about how Jesus had said, you know, in Matthew 5, 42, he says, Give to him who begs from you, Jesus said, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you. And then Howerwash says, How do we not think that that we have we are not allowed to put that into practice or put that into our policy? And Howerwatch says, just to the extent that we don't believe we can give to those who ask, we become thieves. Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement in New York City, took the Lord's Prayer seriously, living day by day among the poor, herself trusting the Father to care for her needs as she cared for the needs of the poor. And she once said this: the closer we are to the poor, the closer to Christ's love we are. John Calvin in the 1500s, in wealthy Geneva, once exclaimed to his church that the church has gold not to keep. But to pay out and to relieve distress. Meister Eckhart, the German priest and theologian in the 1300s, who once said, They who do not give to another what belongs to the other are not eating their own bread, but are eating both their bread and the others. Or is the famous preacher in the capital of the Byzantine Empire, John Chrysostom, who was called the golden-tongued preacher, emperors and peasants alike, could not d could not argue with his preaching. He once said this: not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours, but theirs. Or as Basil the Great in the three hundreds AD once proclaimed in another sermon the bread that is spoiling in your house belongs to the hungry. The shoes that are mildew under your bed belong to those who have none. The clothes stored away in your trunk belong to those who are naked. Consider this how much excess have you and I thrown away in the last month because we didn't want it anymore? We need to recognize that we have an interdependence as a global community, especially a global community of Christians. And as we pray this prayer to give us. Today, our daily bread. What we are doing is we are joining with the prayer that Jesus gave us to pray for justice, to seek justice, and act justly for our neighbors all across the highlands and around the world. We must join with our Latin American brothers and sisters who have often prayed this beautiful prayer. God, to those who have hunger, give bread, and to those who have bread, give give the hunger for justice. May the way we pray be changed forever as we pray for justice in our prayers. May the prayer that we pray to give us this day our daily bread not reflect Bart Simpson's. We did all this ourselves. We don't need you, God. Let it reflect a deep dependence on the Father who gives everything we need. In an incredibly deep gratitude, thankful for what we have been given today, not worried about what we might need tomorrow. And let our prayers give us a hunger for justice. So that no one in our church is weighed down with debt or bills or hunger. So that no one in our community is experiencing that pain and weight. And so increasingly the world is not experiencing those realities. This prayer helps us pray with dependence, in gratitude, and for justice. And then we'll be able to join with the Apostle Paul, who is so shaped by this prayer that he was able to tell the church in in Philippi, I've learned to live with a little and I've learned to live with a lot. In all things. I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. That's what that text is about, by the way. It's not about scoring the most points on the basketball court of some NBA star. You know, it gets used for everything. It's about learning how to live with very little because you don't need it. I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. Because the Father has become the supplier of all my needs. I live in such gratitude for what I'm given daily, and I am so hungry for justice to be done for my neighbors and for those around the world. So I have one question for response for you to consider. And I want you to ask yourself this for a moment before we turn to the Lord's Prayer and the table of the Lord. Here's the question. How do my prayers for what I need? Change in light of Jesus' prayer. How do you notice that you've been praying and you're like, this might need to change? What have you been focusing on or hungry for that Jesus is saying this needs to change if you want to pray like I've taught you to pray? Friends, may we no longer be oppressed by money, by mammon, that cold, brutal, oppressive master. But may we serve the Father who knows everything we need and has invited us to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and everything you need will be given to you. Would you stand with me? As we have been doing throughout this series, I I want to invite us to pray the Lord's Prayer together. We'll have the prayer on the screen. And and one of the things I want to draw your attention to specifically is this prayer for daily bread. The the very earliest Christians saw this as a prayer relating directly to taking communion. The bread and the cup, Jesus Himself becoming our daily bread. All we need for life is God Himself in Jesus. And so as we recognize we pray this prayer, and especially as we pray that prayer, give us today our daily bread. I want you to recognize that as we meet Jesus at his table, he is answering your prayer. Can we pray the prayer that Jesus gave us together? Praying, Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever.

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