“Give us day by day our daily bread.” Luke 11:3

Prayer…the most powerful resource that we have that links our communication with our Heavenly Father. In Luke Chapter 11, Jesus gives an important lesson on prayer to His disciples. He taught them to pray for their daily bread; to ask for the needs of the day. “Give us day by day our daily bread.” Luke 11:3.

Exactly what was the focal point of this powerful lesson? The disciples were to have total dependence on God for all things. This same lesson from our Savior stands for us today. We, too, must come to God in prayer, expecting that He will provide all we need through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19.

I am a living witness that God will supply for all that we need. At twenty-seven years old, a new teacher and single mother, I found myself with a six-month-old and wondering where his next can of formula would come from. I was out of work for the summer and had no savings left until the start of the new school year.

Forty years ago, we weren’t privileged to have many of the necessities we take for granted today; therefore, I washed diapers and hung them on a clothesline in my parents’ backyard. In my despair, I called to my only hope…the Lord; my prayer was this: Oh Lord, my God, please send your help to provide my child with the things that he needs until I return to school, and Lord, please, please help me to work summer school next year. Years of experience and the faithfulness of God in my life bear witness that His word in 1 John 5:14 holds true! “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. 1 John 5:14-15.

Someone once said that man’s extremity is God’s opportunity… I am here to tell you this day that God provided for me the things needed to take care of my son the remainder of the summer, and yes… I did teach summer school the very next year, but the blessing far exceeded the prayer!  Our Great and Almighty God didn’t just answer, He provided far and beyond the next year. I not only worked the next summer, but thirty-two consecutive summers thereafter!

I never worked ten months for DCPS after that year and retired as a twelve-month administrator after thirty-two years of service.  You can’t beat God’s giving. He heard the earnest cry of His child that hot summer day, and I can imagine that He was saying…you have no earthly idea of how I will bless you and you will testify of my goodness and mercy towards you forever…Hallelujah!

My friends, we serve a loving and faithful God who will provide for all that we need. His storehouse is never empty…we only need to come boldly before His Throne of Grace in faith. Jeremiah 33:3 states, “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”

My friends, whatever you need today, go to God in prayer, faithfully trusting that He will provide. “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”  Psalm 37:25.

Blessings and peace to all. He will provide!