This is where so many of us get hung up when it comes to prayer—the asking part. Jesus insists on it though. Jesus insists on “world hunger” prayers and “parking space” prayers alike. He won’t have it any other way. Right in the middle of a prayer as cosmic as “hallowed be your name,” as apocalyptic as “your kingdom come,” as contrite as “forgive us,” and as spiritual as “deliver us from the evil one,” Jesus includes the unavoidably practical, circumstantial, and immediate “give us today our daily bread.”
