Q.193. For what do we pray in the fourth request?

A. In the fourth request ( Give us today our daily bread[1]), we acknowledge that in Adam and by our own sin we have forfeited any right to all of the outward blessings of this life, that we deserve to be completely deprived of them by God and to have their use by us cursed,[2] and that the outward blessings of this life are not in and of themselves capable of sustaining us,[3] nor do we deserve[4] or actually obtain them by our own efforts,[5] but lust after,[6] acquire,[7] and use them in unlawful ways.[8] We pray then for ourselves and others that both they and we may wait daily on God’s providential allowance of the outward blessings of this life and that, according to what his fatherly wisdom decides is best, we may lawfully enjoy his free gift of what is sufficient for us.[9] We also pray that God would continue to bless us with sufficient worldly goods, that they would sustain our needs and be sanctified by us,[10] that we would be satisfied with them,[11] and that God would protect us from anything that undermines our support and sustenance in this world.[12]

1	Matthew 6:11	dummy text
2	Genesis 2:17	dummy text
	Genesis 3:17	dummy text
	Romans 8:20-22	dummy text
	Jeremiah 5:25	dummy text
	Deuteronomy 28:15-68	dummy text
	Lamentations 3:22	dummy text
3	Deuteronomy 8:3	dummy text
4	Genesis 32:10	dummy text
5	Deuteronomy 8:17-18	dummy text
	Proverbs 10:22	dummy text
6	Jeremiah 6:13	dummy text
	Mark 7:21-22	dummy text
	Luke 12:15	dummy text
7	Hosea 12:7	dummy text
8	James 4:3	dummy text
9	Genesis 43:12-14	dummy text
	Genesis 28:20-21	dummy text
	Ephesians 4:28	dummy text
	2 Thessalonians 3:11-12	dummy text
	Philippians 4:6	dummy text
	James 4:13	dummy text
	James 4:15	dummy text
	Psalms 90:17	dummy text
	Psalms 144:12-15	dummy text
10	1 Timothy 4:3-5	dummy text
	Proverbs 10:22	dummy text
11	1 Timothy 6:6-8	dummy text
12	Proverbs 30:8-9	dummy text