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Continuing to look at the Lord's Prayer, in Matthew chapter 6, verse 11, Jesus says, give us this day our daily bread. And it's one of those aspects of God's blessings that we have to understand, that he never promised to give us everything that we wanted. He promised to give us everything that we needed. And Jesus said, give us this day our daily bread. And I'm one of those folks, I wish Jesus would have said, give us this day our monthly bread, or our quarterly bread, or even our yearly bread, so that we can plan everything out, and so that we know, and we have security, and all of our resources, and those kind of things. Because sometimes people read that, and they'll get to preaching on that verse, and say that it's preaching against greed. But the more I've gotten to know just regular people, and as a father, and a husband, and a provider for my family, it's not so much about greed sometimes, as it is about security. That we want the security of knowing that we have all those resources stacked up, that are going to last us months, weeks, years, all that time. But Jesus was very specific. He said, give us this day our daily bread. And Jesus also said, take up your cross daily. Now Jesus isn't preaching against saving, isn't preaching against good stewardship. What he's saying is, every single day, our dependence, our security, needs to be found in the Lord. That every day, He is our security. It's good to have funds, and a savings account, and be able to pay your bills. Have three, four, five, six months worth of funds to be able to pay your bills. That's just good stewardship. We do that as a church, but our security isn't found in that. Our faith isn't found in that. Our faith and security is only found in our relationship with Christ. So this day, I want to encourage you to only find your security, only find your foundation in your daily walk with Jesus. He gives us this day our daily bread, so that this day we can depend on Him, and we'll have to pray the same thing tomorrow. Not even tomorrow. We're gonna have to pray it again, that the Lord would give us this day our daily bread and depend on Him. Listen, if I can do anything for you, if I can pray for you in any way, please shoot me a message and let me know. God bless. Have a great day.