For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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He who labours, prays.
Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
We want only loyal workers who are grateful from the bottom of their hearts for the bread which we let them earn.
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
If someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
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