{"id":929,"date":"2010-03-12T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/?p=929"},"modified":"2010-02-20T11:46:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T10:46:25","slug":"lenten-devotions-2010-friday-12-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/2010\/03\/12\/lenten-devotions-2010-friday-12-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenten Devotions 2010: Friday 12 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cGive us this day our daily bread.\u201d Lord&#8217;s Prayer, Fourth Petition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0When I first heard this as a child, I thought it meant real bread or food we need to eat to keep us going and growing.\u00a0 Whilst growing up, I realised this has such a far deeper meaning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Lord knows what we need before we even ask it and so He always readily provides us with all we need to survive day to day.\u00a0 This passage means so much\u00a0 spiritually and this reading comes to mind when Jesus says, &#8220;Man shall not live on bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord&#8221;.\u00a0 This shows that we need our Heavenly Father in every way, living and following in His way.\u00a0 We need to be continually taught the Ten Commandments, read the Bible and go to Church &#8211; thirsting for His Words to teach us how to live and to always look to the Lord first.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We have an awesome God, He is our strength and shield.\u00a0 The Lord is my shepherd, Psalm 23.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Dear Lord, Thank You for Your precious word and saving grace.\u00a0 Please help us to continually abide in You as You do so abundantly in us.\u00a0 Thank You Lord Jesus for being our daily bread!\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGive us this day our daily bread.\u201d Lord&#8217;s Prayer, Fourth Petition \u00a0When I first heard this as a child, I thought it meant real bread or food we need to eat to keep us going and growing.\u00a0 Whilst growing up, I realised this has such a far deeper meaning.\u00a0 \u00a0The Lord knows what we need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent-devotions-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}