Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth on the prayer, forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.

Many people who say these words don't really feel themselves to be truly guilty sinners

who need God's forgiveness. I think that's probably because we tend to compare ourselves to others.

And we can always find somebody who looks like a worse sinner, or maybe is a worse sinner

in some senses than we are.

And that leaves us feeling, well, I'm not so bad.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, September 5th, 2016. Throughout August, Nancy started showing us how to cry out to the Lord in a series called

the Lord's Prayer. Today we're picking back up in the series. Let's join Nancy. We come today to the second

of three petitions in the Lord's Prayer related to our own needs. Remember the first three

petitions in the first half were for God's glory, His kingdom, and His will. And now we're looking at

three petitions that relate to our needs as the children of God.

And forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors.

That's the way it reads in Matthew's version of the Lord's Prayer.

Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven

our debtors. Within one sentence, Jesus teaches us to ask our Heavenly Father for everything we need,

from food to forgiveness. That says to me that he is no less able to provide one than the other and that we are as much in need

of him for one as for the other we need him for our daily food and we need him for forgiveness of our

debts that says that no need is too small and none is too great for him to care about or for us to ask him about.

His grace and his power span the entire spectrum of human need, from food to forgiveness and everything

in between. Aren't you glad that we have a father, a heavenly father, who cares about all of our

needs?

Give us our daily bread.

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