All That’s Needed – The Presidential Prayer Team

Give us each day our daily bread. – Luke 11:3

Prayer can be difficult. Sometimes your thoughts wander. At times your burden is so heavy that you can’t even put into words what you need. But there is never a reason to stop praying. If you can call on God, He is ready and willing to hear and answer your prayers.

Oftentimes, Jesus would go alone into the wilderness, or to the mountain, or to a “certain place” to pray. Luke recounts that this time Jesus was close enough for one of His disciples to hear Him. Can you even begin to imagine hearing Jesus Himself pray!? What passion! What intimacy! The disciple waited until He was finished and immediately asked Jesus to teach him to pray… not so much the technique, but maybe the connection and the focus that could be heard in His words.

The prayer that Luke quotes has been labeled The Lord’s Prayer, but it is really the disciples’ prayer for it lays out in concise verbiage a model of how to pray. First and foremost, it acknowledges the God from whom all blessings flow. The petitions that follow cover all that is needed in life: provision for daily needs, the forgiveness of sins that have been committed, and protection from temptation and evil.

Jesus provided this format for prayer knowing that the Father was ready and willing to hear and answer the prayers you have for Him. Everything you enjoy is a gift from Him. All you need will be provided. Seek to know what God would have for you. Do not hesitate to pray. Then ask for God’s will to be done in this nation, as well.

Today’s Verse: Luke 11:3

Give us each day our daily bread,

All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Recommended for further reading: Luke 11:5-13

⁵And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, ⁶for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; ⁷and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’? ⁸I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. ⁹And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. ¹⁰For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. ¹¹What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; ¹²or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? ¹³If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”