A Method for Prayer01 Matthew Henry (continued)
We acknowledge we are not worthy of the least crumb that falls from the table of your providence: You might justly take away from us the stay of bread, and the stay of water, and make us to eat our bread by weight, and to drink our water by measure, and with astonishment; because when we have been fed to the full, we have forgotten God our Maker. But let our sins be pardoned, we pray you, that our table may not become a snare before us, nor that be made a trap, which should have been for our welfare. Matthew
15:27. Isaiah 3:1. Exekiel 4:16. Deuteronomy 32:15. Hosea 8:14.
We know that everything is sanctified by the word of God and prayer; and that man lives not by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God; and therefore, according to our Master's example, we lookup to heaven, and pray fora blessing upon our food, Abundantly bless our provision. 1 Timothy 4:5.
Matthew 4.4. Matthew 14:19. Psalm 132:15.
Lord, grant that we may not feed ourselves without fear, that we may not make a god of our belly, that our hearts may never be overcharged with surfeiting or drunkenness, but that whether we eat or drink, or whatever we do, we may do all to the glory of God.
Jude 12. Philippians 3:19. Luke 21:34. 1 Corinthians 10:31.
4. IN RETURNING THANKS AFTER OUR MEAT Now we have eaten and are full, we bless you for the good land you have given us. You preparest a table for us in the presence of our