Give us this day our daily bread.

The second part of the prayer he gives here, with the petition for daily bread, the fourth petition of the prayer. We are bidden to ask for our bread, not for future years, but for "this day." God does not promise to provide for the future until the future comes. This petition implies that God is the fountain from whence all our wants are supplied and that we are constantly dependent upon him. By "bread" is meant food in general.

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