Question 104

What is meant by Our daily Bread?

By Our daily Bread is meant all outward provision for our daily sustenance, I will abundantly bless her Provision; I will satisfie her poor with Bread.^a

What do we ask in praying for Our daily Bread?

In praying for Our daily Bread, we don’t ask plenty, but a competent portion of the good things of this life, such as God seeth to be necessary and most convenient for us, Give me neither Poverty nor Riches, feed me with food convenient for me.^b

May we not have convenient outward Provisions without our asking?

We may have convenient outward Provisions without our asking, but we cannot have them without Gods giving, Thou givest them their meat in due season.^c

What need we ask of God daily outward Provisions, if we may have them without asking?

We ought to ask for our daily outward Provisions, 1. Because God requireth that we should ask for these things, and he hath promised only unto such that they should not want them, The young Lyons do lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.^d 2. Because in asking aright our daily outward Provisions, we ask and obtain the blessing of God with them, and without asking, if we have these things, we have them with Gods curse, And ye shall serve the Lord your God and he shall bless thy bread and water.^e