This morning, I'm really excited to invite Irene to come and be
our preacher. This morning she opens the word.
Irene, how are you feeling? Good.
All right. Let's pray for Irene.
Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for her.
We pray that you would bless her, encourage her, carry her.
This morning, may you anoint her with your spirit.
That that which you have planted in her life may be shared with
us as she opens the word. May you instruct her tongue to
be able to share with us. But we also open our hearts and
minds to you, that you yourself would speak to us by your
spirit, that we might see life generated inside of us.
And we ask this in the name of Jesus.
Amen. Good morning, Origin.
How are we today? Yeah, I saw some of you
yesterday night. So we've we've not had the 8
hours of sleep. That's OK.
We're going to hang in there. For those of you don't know me,
my name is Irene and I'll be preaching to you today.
And so far, we've been in a series on the Lord's Prayer.
Right. I don't know if it's the same
for you, but I've been very excited about the Lord's Prayer,
right? I think.
There is something about prayer that is the heartbeat of what it
means to be a Christian. Really.
Because like when you think about it, the church we're in
right now, what separates this church from any other community
you're a part of? Like what separates this from
your classrooms or your office or volunteering or charities or
other communities? Other communities have beauty,
other communities have truth, Other communities love each
other. But I think what separates the
church is 2 things. That we have the living God in
us and among us. And two, that when we pray, we
talk to God and something happens in that we change and
the world around us changes. There's so there's something
about the Lord's Prayer that's inviting us into prayer, right?
And even Jesus. Jesus highlights the importance
of prayer. When Jesus describes his house,
how does he describe it? You know, when, like, the
merchants are on the temple and they're defiling it, what does
he call the house? He does.
Yeah. Yeah, we got it.
Yes. He doesn't say my house is a
House of great sermons or my house is a House of great
worship, although both are important to the church.
He defines his house as a House of prayer.
And I think this becomes even more poignant when we go into
the New Testament and we know we as believers have the spirit of
God, which means we are houses of God.
So both as individuals and as a community, we're called to
prayer. Right.
And so the Lord's Prayer, I think, is an invitation for us
as origin to deepen our prayer lives as individuals, as a
community. And I'm excited to do that.
OK, so we're going into the fourth line of the Lord's
Prayer. Matthew 611.
Give us this day Our Daily Bread.
OK, So if you've been paying attention for the past three
weeks, this is kind of a shift, you guys.
We were in the heavens with our Father in heaven.
We were hollowing and setting apart His name.
And hallowed be your name, right?
We were recognizing His Kingdom. And your Kingdom come.
And we're aligning ourselves with His will and your will be
done on earth as it is in heaven.
And then suddenly. Bread, bread.
Bread in our homes. Maybe bread in your belly.
Some of you have bread right now.
I saw you with bread bags. OK.
And right, right there. So there's something about
bread. It's like heavens to bread, what
is the connection? Even though it seems like a
shift. I think what it's showing is our
God is an intensely practical God.
OK, we have bodies he recognizes.
Hey, you can do lines one to three of the Lord's Prayer.
If you don't eat you, you need to eat.
Give us this day, Our Daily Bread.
So when Jesus models asking God for daily bread, I think he's
telling us, hey, God cares about your needs.
He sees them and he wants to provide for them.
The physical, the tangible nature of bread forces us to
recognize this is a God who parts Red Seas but also cares
about your next meal. That's important.
We understand that.
What is daily bread, though? Is it just your meal?
We're going, we're going to resurrect the Protestant
reformer, Martin Luther, and he's going to he.
This is his quote about what Daily bread is.
OK, food. Drink.
Clothes, shoes, house, home, land, animals, money and goods.
A godly husband or wife, devout children, good workers, honest
faithful leaders, good government, good weather, peace,
health, law and order, and honorable name faithful friends,
trustworthy neighbors. That's a long list.
But what is it showing? That there's a lot that goes
into your day that God is interested in fulfilling all of
that? We have a God who cares, right?
And there's this like, there's just like weird.
Spiritual egoism that tries to separate the spiritual from the
physical that makes like, hey, God help me be more patient, a
more important prayer than God give me daily bread and that I
want to I want to spell this morning is a false binary.
We are Christians. We're both body and spirit.
OK, so Christianity doesn't say, hey, the body is lower than the
spirit. Don't look at the body our
Savior. Came in the form of a human.
He had a body in heaven. We're not angels.
We're not ghosts on our like cloud playing harps.
We have a body. We will have a body.
So the body is important so God cares our bodies and the fact
those bodies and needs. Now if you notice God does Jesus
doesn't say needs, he doesn't say grain.
He doesn't say caviar. He says bread.
And that's intentional. OK, so you have to remember
Jesus is God. And Jesus is always pointing to
God. And So what he's doing, he's
pulling on an image of God from the Old Testament.
We're gonna turn to Exodus 16 and like a little precursor for
this pass for this passage. At this point, Israel had come
out of Egyptian slavery. OK, they were.
They had Pharaoh and his chair. It's chasing them.
They go into the Red Sea, God parts the Red Sea, the men, the
women, the children are going, the pharaoh.
And everyone is drowning behind them, right?
It's this like dramatic show of God's glory.
But the Israelites are human. And So what happened?
They get hungry. They get hangry in the desert,
hungry and angry, and we see God showing up.
Exit is 16. Can you read with me?
They set out from Ellen. All the congregation at the
people of Israel came to the wilderness of sin, which is
between Ellen and Sinai, on the 15th day of the second month
after they departed from the land of Egypt.
And the whole congregation of the people of Israel rumbled
against Moses and Erin in the wilderness.
And the people of Israel said to them, would that we had died by
the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt.
When we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full.
For you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this
whole assembly with hunger. Then the Lord said to Moses,
Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven, for you, and the
people shall go out and gather a day's portion, that I may test
them whether they will walk in my law or not.
On the 6th day, when they prepare what they bring in, it
will be twice as much as they gather daily.
So Moses and Aaron said to all the people Israel.
That evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you
out of the land of Egypt. And in the morning you shall see
the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling
against the Lord. For where are we that you
grumble against us? Skip down to verse 13.
In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the
morning dew lay around the camp, and when the dew had gone up
there was on the face of the wilderness a fine flake like
thing, fine as frost on the ground.
When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another,
what is it for? They did not know what it was.
And Moses said to them, it is the bread of the Lord.
It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.
OK, so the Israelites are hungry.
They're in the desert. And then God is literally
raining down bread from heaven. Can you imagine that?
You wake up, you go out of your tent, and there's just quail and
bread everywhere. God supernaturally provided,
right? So when Jesus is saying, hey,
give us this day Our Daily Bread, he's saying God has
stayed the same through the ages.
He's the God who provided bread yesterday.
He'll do it today and he'll do it tomorrow.
And this aspect of God's provision becomes all the more
important when we get that bill at the end of the month or
groceries are too expensive, which is always a reality in
Vancouver. Or something funny happens with
the job, right? There's a tension there where
we're invited and to worry and Jesus is making the opposite
invitation. He's saying, can you trust in
God's daily bread? Because the reality is God
always shows up over and over and over.
He provides like the Israelites were quite literally in a
desert. No bakers nearby Bread.
Elijah the prophet, he had no food.
Ravens fed him Jesus with the 5000.
Out of two low 25 loaves and two fish, all of them fed, right.
So we have a God who cares about our daily needs.
He cares about you having a good night of sleep.
He cares about your student loans.
He cares about your dinner. He cares about your daily needs.
And do you see God as providing your daily needs?
Like, do you have that picture of God from heaven?
Literally, literally giving your needs.
Because what praying that line invites you into is recognizing
that he's already doing that. Like, I know you know, it looks
like you stumbled on to your friends and your job and your
clothes and your roof, but really, all good things come
from above, from the father of lights.
So everything good in your life, because he's the origin of good,
is from him. So, like praying, this prayer is
in an invitation to gratitude. And then also an invitation till
the day we die like breath out of our nose, praying that every
day, like relying on him, relying on him for provision.
I'm gonna take a drink of water. So we know we have a God who
cares, so why don't we go to him?
Like what are the barriers? I think there are a lot of
barriers, but I think for us, especially in this context, one
of the barriers is a really well learned habit of self-reliance.
There are many people in this congregation who are very
competent. They're intelligent.
You have multiple degrees at the end of your name, Okay every
other room you show up. You're reliable, you're smart,
and that's amazing. I am happy for that.
But the Lord is not impressed by you impressing right?
Like there's there's something about self-reliance that that
ultimately takes away from God's provision.
Because. This is what we've been doing
from Eden onwards, right? From like the very beginning
we've been trying to find our bread in other places.
It doesn't work out. We run away, we go into the
bushes and then God comes chasing after us and we hold on
to our fig leaves of shame and self-sufficiency.
So praying this prayer is now an invitation for us to like leave
that pattern that we have to repent.
We have to turn away from being self reliant because what is at
the heart of self-reliance? It's pride.
It's saying self above God. It's telling God like, hey, I
know you're the God who sits on the throne.
I know you know they end from the beginning.
But I feel like I run my life pretty well.
Like, I think I can handle this. And we don't say this with our
words, but we acted out. We acted out with
prayerlessness. We acted out when we rush out of
the door. We acted out when we don't ask
for daily bread. And the reality is God is
inviting us to a life with the Spirit.
With the life sustained by God. Because in to be in this
Kingdom, to be in the Kingdom of God, it's not just like we add
Christian onto a bunch of other identities, right?
It's like it's a different mindset.
He calls us to be needy. We're creatures.
We have a creator. And he's not apathetic.
He's a father. In Matthew 18 three he says this
thing about neediness. Truly, I say to you.
Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter
the Kingdom of heaven. That doesn't make sense in our
culture. Nobody tells you become more
like a child. OK, that is very
countercultural. Everything you do is trying to
grow up. And Jesus is saying like, no,
the posture you come to me is as a child, what do children do?
Some of you are not parents. Some of you are look around
origin. Children are everywhere, not
here right now. They're in Sunday school.
But what children are do, what they do is they're bold.
They ask. They need, they depend, they
act. They like, trust their parents
to provide. And So what?
Neediness. Ultimately, neediness in God is
trust. Neediness shows faith in the
faithfulness of God. So when we come to God, we have
to forget our PhD. We have to forget our masters.
We come to Him as children because that's the only posture
we receive, right? Like we can't front that some of
us have other barriers. So we can trust God for the
well-being of the world. We can trust God to help other
people, but we we we don't trust as much God's love for us,
right? Like maybe the perfect
Christians have earned it. The ones with 52 day church
attendances and 8.93 out of 9 foot to the Spirit and they have
Christ likeness radiating from their pores.
You know, those people, those good Christians, have earned
God's generosity. And the problem is we have
distorted views of God. Right.
Like that's a distorted view of God because how does God reveal
himself to us? He's a father.
You are not asking Vladimir Putin for daily red.
It's God. You're talking to your father.
And like, when when the scriptures describe God's love,
it's not just love, right. And that's a that word is
overused in our culture. The scripture says has said,
that's a very complicated word. I mean, there's no, like, actual
English equivalent for it, but it's 5 components.
Kindness. Mercy.
Loyalty. Faithfulness and love.
So it's a kind of covenantal love, action oriented.
It's a love that's coming towards you.
OK, so God's love, it's not passive.
He's coming towards you. He's coming for you, He's coming
to provide. And the problem is we have
gotten too used to broken patterns of human love.
Some of you are only no conditional love.
Some of you only know a stingy love.
Some of you only know unfaithful love.
And we impose that pattern upon God.
The reality is, God is not like your father.
He's not like your mother. He's not like your sister.
He's not like your cousins. He's not like your boss.
He is transcendent. And there's this thing we have
to do with our minds, like we have to take it to the
Scripture. We have to let him reveal
himself to us, right? Because when we go to the
scriptures, we see a God who so loved the world.
That he gave his one and only Son, that whoever should believe
in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
And if you look at that God, how?
How can you not see a God who is so abundantly generous?
The cross assures us of God's generosity right when we, like
understand his character. Coming to him and praying for
daily bread becomes easy because you know he loves you.
The reality is, even if you get into the habit of praying for
daily bread, there's this tension in this relationship
with God because sometimes he will not give you what you want.
And we enter into places of disappointment as God makes us
square with our needs and our wants.
I had one of these moments with God summer of 2022.
I'm a graduate student, I need a summer TA ship and everyone in
my cohort got one but me. I did not have one and.
You see, I I could feel God on it.
Like I could feel something about God was moving that
situation. And so I go to him and I was
like, you know, God daily bread. I need job.
Like I need, I need money. And he's like, we're going to
work on financial stewardship and your materialism issues this
summer. And So what that meant?
Because you know what? I says my needs were my pretty
jewelry and my books and my cafe dates and my leg, things that
smell nice and my art, especially when I was sad, mad,
or feeling bad and God wasn't as not a fan of my consumerism.
And I didn't want to work on it. He did, though, and so we
wrestled with it. He always wince, but he lets me
process. And that summer I had my bare
necessities. I had my rent, I had my
groceries, but nothing else. And I watched my bank account.
I watched it go from 4 digits to 3 digits to 2 digits to 1 digit.
And in that summer it was bitter bread.
But but what did I learn? That some of the things I had
had a hold on me. And he actually was changing my
heart when I couldn't go running to them, a material like I
actually became less materialistic I think that
summer. And then because I wasn't
running to them, I was running to him.
So my intimacy with God, my reliance on him started
increasing, right. So in that moment, it wasn't
pleasant. Daily Brad, it wasn't sweet, but
God did something. And OK, this is The funny thing.
So after after I seem to have learned lesson, God started
having money. Pop up all over the place.
And I mean in the last two weeks of summer, I recouped all of my
losses. So, like UBC, Sauter gave me
like thousands of dollars for a grant.
Mark Zuckerberg, a Facebook fame.
Apparently he was violating people's privacy in Illinois.
I used to live in Illinois. He sent me $400.00 in the mail.
Random. I ran, OK, this is this is how
random it is. I ran into an organizer of
synagogue events. They hired me to be their
Gentile scribe, and I would go and I would have delicious meals
with the Jewish community and I would literally write down their
conversations because they can't work and they paid me hundreds
of dollars. God is the God who pulls coins
out of fish's mouths, OK? And I've experienced that aspect
of God that summer. But yeah, the reality is we
enter into tough places when we ask God for daily bread because
he's our father. He's not a cosmic vending
machine, right? It's not like F4 out pops the
husband, although some of us would like that.
It's he. He wrestles with our desires.
He wrestles with it. And what he's doing is that he's
purifying us. He's refining us.
Some of you, some of you, might have unanswered prayers with
God. And that unanswered prayer is
making you doubt the goodness of God.
God is not scared of your doubt, or your disappointment, or your
anger or your confusion. And in fact, if you try to
ignore it and God is good your way out of it, it's self
delusion. Don't do that.
Don't let it fester in the darkness.
Take it to him. He's your father.
What he'll do is he'll process you through it and at the end.
You will see his goodness, I promise you.
And you can be like David and say the Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not want. That's what happens when we go
to him. I want to pivot us to looking at
the word our this. OK, Our Daily Bread.
Right. This whole prayer is stunningly
communal. It doesn't start with my father.
It starts with our father. It's Our Daily Bread and to our
Western sensibilities, to our individualistic culture, this is
incredibly countercultural, right?
There's this way that because we're so focused on the self, we
can take that into our relationship with God, where it
becomes God and me, and then everyone else is over there.
But the reality is, loving God always extends into loving his
people. So when you start praying God
give us Our Daily Bread, you start praying for other people's
needs. You start becoming intimately
involved in the needs of others. That is what it means to take on
that prayer, Alright, It's not just God.
Here's my laundry list of things to do, although God cares about
that laundry list. It's like get to know your
neighbor well enough so you can pray for their calculus exam
next Saturday. Like, that's what that
invitation is into. What does your prayer life look
like? Do you spend time praying for
the needs of others? It's an invitation.
If you start praying for daily bread, you will soon start to
notice a discrepancy between God promising daily bread and in the
presence of the poor, starving and hungry among us.
How do we explain that? To be honest, in the next 10
minutes I can't explain that full discrepancy, but what I can
say is 2 things. The cross assures us that God is
not apathetic, that he's so involved He sacrificed his son,
that his son can't save us. And the resurrection assures
that the redemption of all things is unfolding so that one
day that all tears will be wiped, that one day all pain
will cease, that one day all will be fed at the banquet of
the Lord. Right.
That is what the hope is. But we are in that messy middle
where we do see brokenness of the world, but we see redemption
unfolding. So we're called, I think we're
called by the Spirit to groan, to groan in prayer, and to go
deep for the prayers of those, for the needs of those around
us. I think it also means that we
become the hands and feets of Jesus, right?
Christian love always moves towards the poor, the widow and
the orphan. So not just in prayer, but also
indeed one John 318 says let us not love in Word or talk, but
indeed, and in truth. So there's something about me
loving God that should make me move to using my resources, my
time, my energy, my efforts towards those who have less than
me. And we have a great example of
this in our church. Many people here are involved in
the food hub. Yes.
Can we can we throw woo if you're involved.
So the food hub from Origin helps combat food insecurity.
Dr. Auntie Joanne, Pastor Craig that they know.
I know all of you volunteer. And what do they do?
They provide food for those who have or food insecure, right.
And just this week alone, you guys, 264 households were served
with over 900 people getting food.
That is that is God moving through origin to be the
handsome feet of Jesus. Like, do you see God working in
that? That's the Spirit working even
among starvation and hunger. So for us to pray for Our Daily
Bread, we're moving into the prayer and provision for others.
I also want us to turn and look at the word daily.
OK, it's daily bread. Not weekly, not monthly, not
annually. And I think God does this in His
wisdom because if it was monthly bread, maybe some of us would
show up for a monthly appointment, get our monthly
bread, and we say peace out Jesus for the rest of the month.
And the reality is the reality. God wants us to come for daily
bread every single day, show up, and He's right there, right?
But but the truth is, the truth is the truth is we often long
for more than daily bread that your mind is often consumed with
tomorrow, not even just tomorrow, five years from now,
right? And so there's this impulse of
the human mind to want to go, to be anxious about the future.
And we see this with the Israelites who were just reading
about Exodus 1619 to 21. And Moses said to them, let no
one leave any of it over till the morning.
But they did not listen to Moses.
Some left part of it till the morning and it breadworms and
stink. And Moses was angry with them
morning by morning they gathered it each as much as he could eat.
But when the sun grew hot and melted, OK, so God is providing
daily mana. And they just like to like,
we're gonna hoard this. I'm gonna take this and put it
in our tent for tomorrow's. I can note I have provision for
Sunday. And then they wake up to a
pillow full of maggots. And that's what happens.
That's what happens when we move out of the daily right.
God is saying, hey, you're going to trust my provision for today.
And he shows up. God does it.
For 40 years in the wilderness, God provides daily mana till
they reach Canaan. So in the same way God, when he
tells us, when Jesus tells us to pray, give us this day, Our
Daily Bread. It's an entry into that mindset,
into that practice. God is just like a radically
present day oriented God, right? He says daily bread.
He says new morning mercies, even the phrase this is the day
that the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it.
That's a day we're talking about.
And Jesus even goes to so far to say, why are you worrying about
tomorrow? Each day has its own troubles,
right? So if you have Sunday troubles,
don't pick up Monday troubles. I haven't given you the grace
for Monday troubles, keep it on Sunday.
So part of Christian maturity is focusing on the daily.
Like if you train your mind to focus on the pain of the past or
the worries of the future, you will end up with the mind in
turmoil. This is not just scriptural,
it's psychological, It's science.
And I feel like. I feel like the spirit of our
age is just one of relentless anxiety, this constant busyness.
It's like this throwing our hands up in the air, right?
It's like and I feel like the perfect image to represent that
is a headless chicken. Follow me.
Follow me in this metaphor, this long, long metaphor I'm gonna
explain to you right now. I come from a long line of
Indian farmers. I know you don't know it when
you look at me, but I do. No kings in my lineage, just
Indian farmers. And I actually lived on a farm
for a year in my childhood. I was a farm girl, you guys.
And this is the thing about Indian farmers and Indian
villagers. They're in touch with their
meat. OK?
There's no pink pounds of meat. You can buy it, save on foods
for $20. None of that thinks moo and
squawk before they end up on your table.
And one of these days, when I was on the farm, I learned how
chicken Curry became chicken Curry.
I saw the death of a chicken is essentially what I'm trying to
say. What happened?
I've been trying to scrub this
image from my mind for years, but what happened is that they
chopped the head, chicken's head off.
They decapitated. Did you know that when you take
the head of a chicken off that the neck and body can still
move, that will run and run and run without its head and then
collapse into a small dying heap?
Why am I bringing up decapitated chickens?
It's a great question. I when I was preparing for the
sermon I was like that is the image of our age, the striving,
this racing, this race to nothing, busy climbing,
achieving like for what? Headless chickens and
Christians. Christians enter into this
pattern, right? Can I tell you the solution?
Eat your daily bread. Like, believe in God's
provision. Like really believe in a God who
has redeeming your past, who's working in your present, and
who's preparing your future, and discipline your mind to do that.
It really goes back to knowing who God is, you guys.
Like if we actually believe in a Father who sits on a throne with
billions of angels at His command, who loves you.
And we believe in a Jesus who's sitting right next to him, who
also loves you, who's praying for you, by the way.
And we believe that we're inhabited by the spirit of God,
who's in us, counseling us, teaching, advising.
How can we stay in a constant state of worry?
Like, if we really catch that revelation and we keep it in our
mind, we meditate on it. I think it's a it's a real, real
solution to the anxiety of our age.
So that's an invitation of daily bread, right?
Like the problem is not that we have problems.
You're always going to have problems.
Your problem is that your problems look bigger than God.
This is why A W Tozer says as God is exalted to the right
place in our lives, 1000 problems are solved all at once.
So let God become bigger in your mind than your problems.
Sing it, praise it, read it until it's your reality.
Eat the daily bread. I want to close us with pointing
the connection between Jesus saying this is give us this day
Our Daily Bread, and Jesus as the living bread right over and
over Jesus calls himself the bread.
We read this in John 6:30 when he says what sign then will you
give that we may see it and believe you?
What will you do? Our ancestors ate the mana and
the wilderness as it is written. He gave them bread from heaven
to eat. Jesus said to them very truly, I
tell you, it is not Moses who has given you bread from heaven,
but it is my Father who gives you true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from
heaven and gives life to the world.
Sir, they said, always give us this bread.
Then Jesus declared, I am the bread of life.
Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes
in me will never be thirsty. Jesus is not talking about
ordinary hunger or ordinary thirst.
He's talking about your soul's hunger for Him, right?
Like if you got the mansion and the great spouse and a six
figure salary and the 2.5 kids and the golden retriever, there
would be something in you that would still feel like there's
this like hole, like something that needs to be filled.
And that's not a mistake. The very reason for your
existence, for your creation, was to Make Love him, to know
him, to have him be the lover of your soul.
And the problem is, we know this, but we have other voices,
idols. Things pop up in our heart to
take the throne of our hearts. And these idols, they have
voices, they whisper, They tell you what life is really about.
They give you stories, right one common one, finding your true
love, that salvation is in the arms of a lover.
Or hey, you know you'll know you're worthy when you go up
that career ladder and you get to the top and you're higher and
faster than anyone else. Or filling your life with
material possessions shows you a person of value.
Like when you can do good things and, like have good things,
that's when you know you made it.
Or pleasing your parents or people group.
Like if you can do that, you've made it.
And none of those things are in of themselves are bad.
They're not. But they can't be ultimate.
They can't be God. They can't handle the weight of
that because when they do get elevated, they cause death,
physical, spiritual, emotional death.
So what's the solution? The gospel, the gospel comes to
oppose and radically transform those stories, right?
It comes to tell you, hey, this is the capital T true story,
that by fellowshipping with God daily, hearing him daily, seeing
his beauty daily the beauty and glory of the gospel dwarfs
everything else. And you realize Jesus is life
and life abundant, that he is my true love, that he is the joy I
could want, He is all my riches. When Jesus calls himself the
living Bread, he's inviting you into life.
This is why Revelations 320 says, behold, I stand at the
door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and
opens the door, I will come to him and eat with them and he
with me. If we become a people who eat at
Jesus table, I think we would find that a lot of our needs are
taken care of, that we would grow in love for others and that
the love and peace of God would coat our souls, that we would
find our souls satisfied by him and I want to end.
As we move into communion and we eat of the bread, we're
reminding ourselves of Jesus the bread of life, that we open
ourselves in receiving Him. To be the provider of your
physical, emotional, spiritual needs today, join me in prayer.
Father, we thank you. We thank you that we are beloved
children and that you're a father who cares for our needs,
who sees things that others can't see.
Give us the humility to come this week to you for daily bread
for the rest of our lives. And I pray that the places that
are hurting, that haven't been examined in a wild that your
light would touch it and it would heal it.
We thank you for all that you do for us.
In your beautiful name we pray. Amen.
It truly be who you've created us to be.
Would you return the joy of our salvation to each of us as we
confess to you our need of you, as we confess to you how we have
left you, how we may have hardened our heart towards you?
As we confess to the shallow activities and busyness of our
lives where we've neglected to the true bread of heaven, oh
Lord, return that joy to us. It's only in this way that we
can endure the hardship of this life.
It's the only way that you and yourself endured the cross.
And so we remember the scripture says that on the night that
Jesus was betrayed, he met with his disciples and he took bread
and he broke it. And when he had given thanks, he
shared it with them and said, Take eat this in remembrance of
me. In the same way, after the
supper, Jesus took the cup and he said, This cup is the new
covenant in my blood. Do this whenever you drink it in
remembrance of Me. The scripture says that whenever
you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the
Lord's death until he comes again.
Lord Jesus, come, come quickly. So I grew up with a very funny
Southern phrase in the United States.
That went something like this. You blessed our socks off.
OK, Do you know that phrase? If you've ever done Origin kids
out of and Acadia, we used to say our goal tonight is to bless
their socks off, right? That those kids would lose their
socks. Hey, I lost my socks.
That was so good. You just blessed our heart.
Yeah. Tell her thank you.
So good. I'm delighted in what the Lord
has done among us today. Let's give our blessing to each
other today. Now may the God of peace make
you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and
body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.
God will make this happen, for He who calls you is faithful.
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Amen. See you next week.