"Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" - Why God's Grace is Always Just Enough

This teaching explores "Give us this day our daily bread" from the Lord's Prayer. Jeremy contrasts our overstuffed refrigerators and cabinets with Jesus's original audience of day laborers who literally earned just enough each day to buy that day's food. Using the story of manna in the wilderness, the message shows that God provides "just enough" - those who gathered more had just enough, those who gathered less had just enough, but those who tried to hoard it found maggots the next morning because they didn't trust God's provision. The core insight comes through Paul's "thorn in the flesh" - when Paul asked three times for healing, God responded, "My grace is sufficient for you." Jeremy explains why we hate the word "sufficient" (it means just enough) and prefer God to write us "blank grace checks," but God's grace is perfectly calibrated to our actual needs. Key revelation: Worry destroys us because there's no grace for problems that haven't happened yet. When we worry about future possibilities, we shoulder the entire burden alone. But when difficulties actually occur, God's grace is there - sufficient, never too much, never too little. Practical challenge: The prayer isn't about using God as a cosmic vending machine for our wants, but trusting Him for our actual needs while recognizing that an entire marketing machine exists to keep us perpetually wanting more. Bottom line: "Give us this day our daily bread" means trusting God for today without worrying about tomorrow, knowing His grace will always be exactly what we need when we need it.