Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 38

 

Repeat after Jesus:

“Our Father who art in Heaven”

“Give us this day our daily bread.”

 

There are times in our lives when the bread of rest is more precious than food.

Just as the words “our daily bread” are not confined to a barley loaf of bread but also means beef, poultry, fish and other foods, so in its full meaning “our daily bread” includes our need of daily spiritual bread, where Jesus himself feeds us daily the bread of life through his Word.

In order to love God with all our soul, heart, strength and mind, we must feed ourselves in every aspect of our spiritual being as well.

We are basically a dichotomy composed of a physical part and a spiritual part. The Spirit is by far superior over the body just as a tenant is superior to the house.

While a small grain of wheat falls to the ground to die and resurrects to a green strong and healthy plant to bear more wheat sixty times over and later by the hand of men becomes flour and loaf by the hand of women and bread by the hand of a baker from which every hand of men, women and children feed themselves.

We are a little dust feeding from dust, till ashes go to ashes dust to dust.

In the same way Jesus the Seed of God, the living bread of Beth-lehem (House of Bread) came to this Earth to die on the cross and by his resurrection he bared many seeds; thus leaving behind the bread of life and the bread of his body to feed in him till he comes back again in his Second Coming.

This is how God feeds the spirit till it separates from the body and goes back to God where it came from.

Till then dear Lord, “Give us this day daily bread.”

This is the teaching elder on duty in matters of Prayer.

Gerry Gutierrez.