Give us this day our daily bread. Jesus is saying that we should in our prayer lives live on a daily dependence upon the provisions that God gives to us from his bounty. With refrigerators and freezes,

same day delivery and drive-thrus for coffee or food, it's easy

to be fooled by the illusion of independence, self-sufficiency.

But the Lord's prayer corrects this wrong thinking,

reminding us of our day-to-day moment by moment

dependence upon the Lord.

This is the Thursday edition of renewing her mind and I'm glad you're joining us today.

Yesterday, Arcy Sprawl reminded us that earthly kings take and take and take, describes how God is a king who gives and gives and gives, every good and perfect gift.

And we see that truth in the petitions we'll be looking at today in the

Lord's prayer. If you'd like to dig deeper into each petition of the Lord's

prayer more than we'll be able to get to this week, request the complete 10-part series, and R.C. Sproll's book The Prayer of

the Lord at renewing your mind.org. Here's Dr. Sproll as we continue this week's study.

I remember when my daughter was two years old and we were living in the Netherlands during the time that I was doing my doctoral studies there at the Free University of Amsterdam.

And this was a difficult adjustment for a two-year-old child to be moved to a land where she didn't understand the language and the place where we lived out in the villages.

Our landlady didn't speak any English, so it was tough.

But I remember the first phrase that my daughter learned

to speak in Dutch, and it went like this. Dachminir Bakker and Hallifjievit Hissneiden, also believed.

Now being translated that phrase meant, good morning, Mr. Baker.

A half a loaf of white sliced bread, please.

Because it was the custom in the Netherlands

in those days that people normally did not buy bread in the grocery store, but it would be

delivered daily from a little bakery truck. And the bread that they made was just out of this world. I love that

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