Whenever we pray, “Give us this day our daily bread,” what do we have in mind? Is it about food—such as bread with tea or koko? Is it about rice with stew and fufu with light soup? Or my favourite tuo zaafi or banku with okro soup? Yes, it is about all kinds of foods. God our Heavenly Father gives us our daily bread. He is the one who feeds the billions of people on earth. God is our Provider. But the line in the Lord’s Prayer, “Give us this day our daily bread” goes beyond physical food. It is also about spiritual food. We need food: True, when we are hungry, we long for food because without it we die. But how about when we are spiritually hungry? If we don’t “eat” spiritual food, what will happen to us? We die spiritually! We are flesh and blood, and we have physical body. That is why we need our banku and rice and fish. But we are also spiritual beings. Therefore we need spiritual daily bread in order not to starve spiritually. Food shortage: When the Israelites were on their way to the Promised Land, they ran short of food—the way Ghana ran short of food some years back. People still run short of food today as the times get harder. The Israelites cried for food, and God gave them manna from above. Ghanaians cried for food and God brought down rains and our good farmers cultivated the land. Thanks to God who cares for us! When God gave manna to the Israelites, they thought only about filling their stomachs. But Moses told them, “Man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from God” (Deuteronomy 8:3). Spiritual hunger: One day the Jews told Jesus, “Our fathers gave us manna in the wilderness.” But Jesus reminded them that it was God who gave them the manna. They had food for the physical body, but they were hungry spiritually. Those who don’t worship God but live their own lives are hungry spiritually. Spiritually hungry persons are unhappy in life. They are deeply dissatisfied about their lives. They don’t care about the things of God at all. Even if they are in church, they disobey God and follow their own ways. Their hearts are “weighted down with partying, drunkenness and the anxieties of life” (Luke 21:34). Spiritually hungry people follow the flesh in “sexual immorality, impurity, idolatry, magic, enmity, fights, jealousy, anger, disagreements, envy, drunkenness, and things like these” (Galations 5:19-21). Spiritual food: What spiritual food can feed the spiritually hungry person? Jesus said, “My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world!” (John 6:33). Who is that true bread from God? Jesus is the Bread who fills the hungry soul. He said, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty” (John 6:35). Jesus is the Better Bread. To “eat” this true Bread, we must believe in him, repent, confess our sins to God, and ask Him for forgiveness. Then invite Jesus into our life as Saviour. Prayer: Lord Jesus, I believe You are the Bread of Life. My soul is very hungry. Please, forgive my sins, come into my life, and feed my hungry soul. I receive you as my Lord and personal Saviour.