Daily bread for everyone

Last night at youth group I challenged the youth to see past our limited view of God. We said the Lord's prayer and the I had them focus on the "Give us this day our daily bread" part. If I hadn't studied yesterday I couldn't give them a great encouraging word, but because I did I challenged them to think of Solomon's daily bread, 20 Kiloliters of daily bread! How big do we see God's provisions for us? is it just two slices of bread? or is it daily bread deserving of a king? I equated it out to having 5000 bottles of coke, then Pastor Joe said after that again we limit God because it would be equal to 10000 2 liter bottles of coke.

So reading farther we see part of a treaty that solomon works out that he shares his Daily bread with an ally. If you are following this with me please read all of 1 kings chapter 5

1 kings 5:8-10

8 So Hiram sent word to Solomon:
"I have received the message you sent me and will do all you want in providing the cedar and pine logs. 9 My men will haul them down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will float them in rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate them and you can take them away. And you are to grant my wish by providing food for my royal household."

10 In this way Hiram kept Solomon supplied with all the cedar and pine logs he wanted, 11 and Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors [a] of wheat as food for his household, in addition to twenty thousand baths [b] , [c] of pressed olive oil. Solomon continued to do this for Hiram year after year. 12 The LORD gave Solomon wisdom, just as he had promised him. There were peaceful relations between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.

Here his portion he gave was twenty thousand cors or 125,000 bushels or 4,400 kiloliters that is equivalent to 2,200,000 2 liter bottles of coke. Solomon as we learned was given 20 Kiloliters of grain a day according to the Jewish calendar of 354 days that would equal to 7080 total grain income of which he gave 4,400 to Hiram. Which shows that the daily bread Solomon was given went to far greater use than feeding the people at his own table but financed the building of the temple.

So again I pray Lord expand my image of you, Give us this day our daily bread. So with that we want to see us live in abundance and to give in abundance. As the Lord is leading me to study more each day, I'm seeing his daily bread come alive in me and now I have more to give.

"God in my living, there in my breathing, be my everything"