Proverbs 30.7-9: The request “Give us today our daily bread” comes from this passage in Proverbs. The prayer is to focus our hearts on the contentment in the provision of the Lord. It is a call to focus our hearts and minds first on his hands and not our own as he provides all to us. This guides us to patient living and seeking not the riches of this world, but the heavenly bread of Christ that secures us for all eternity.