When Jesus said in the Lord's Prayer, give us our daily bread, what do they actually mean?

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and you can join in right there we've been looking at the words of Jesus. We've been looking in

the sermon on the Mount as a starting point, the first extended teaching of Jesus that we have in

the Gospels. And we're in the Lord's Prayer, the pattern of prayer that Yeshua gave us. We have it in

Matthew 6 and we also have it in Luke the 11th chapter.

So he begins by telling us, don't pray like the hypocrites and public. They want to be seen.

They put on a long show. Look at how pious am. I pray these long holy prayers. Because God's not going

to answer you because you talk so much and keep on babbling. This is your father, your Heavenly Father, you're talking to you. You shut yourself in private. No one sees. It doesn't mean we can't pray together in public, but the goal is not to be seen. And there's power in corporate prayer, but most of our daily prayer is going to be by ourselves. Get alone, shut yourself in.

Pray to your Father who sees in secret.

He'll reward you even openly.

So this is how you pray.

We pray these very words, which is great,

and we can use them as a pattern of prayer as well.

So our Father, even though you're all by yourself praying, you say our,

because you're part of a body, you're part of a family, something that would be just normal

pattern for a Jewish person. Our father in heaven. He's not bound here on this earth. He's not

bound by time and circumstance. He's eternal God in

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