The Lord’s Prayer: Relying on God

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But He uses the reference to bread to symbolize, I believe, or to indicate this broader consideration that Jesus is saying, you come before the Father and you ask Him Him to provide your needs. Now Jesus had in the Sermon on the Mount given an expanded teaching on our dependence upon God's providence for our daily necessities. And so that's incorporated here as part of our Lord's Prayer.