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Summary
- Jesus taught his followers to pray for “our daily bread” (Matthew 6:11), and short prayers here cover a bill that is due, debt, lost income, an unexpected expense, a raise, a business, budgeting, a couple’s arguments and contentment.
- Agur’s prayer in Proverbs 30:8–9 asks God for “neither poverty nor riches.”
- Traditional prayers come from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (“For Every Man in his Work,” p. 44) and the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers (“Against Covetousness,” p. 296).
- In 2 Kings 4:1–7 Elisha helps a widow whose creditor was about to take her sons, and she sells oil to “pay thy debt.”
- The Cape Town Commitment (Third Lausanne Congress, 2010) rejects the “prosperity gospel,” denying that wealth is “always a sign of God’s blessing.”
- For practical help: 211 and the National Foundation for Credit Counseling in the US, StepChange (0800 138 1111) in the UK.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Deuteronomy 8:18; 1 Kings 17; 2 Kings 4:1–7; Nehemiah 1:11; Psalm 90:17; Proverbs 22:7; 30:8–9; Matthew 6:11, 33; Luke 12:15; Philippians 4:19; 1 Timothy 6:10; Hebrews 13:5; James 1:5; 1 Peter 5:7). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Prayers, “For Every Man in his Work,” p. 44. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Prayers against the Seven Deadly Sins, “Against Covetousness,” p. 296. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
- Lausanne Movement. The Cape Town Commitment, Part II, section IIE.5, “Walk in simplicity, rejecting the idolatry of greed.” https://lausanne.org/statement/ctcommitment
- United Way 211. “Call 211 for Essential Community Services.” https://www.211.org/
- National Foundation for Credit Counseling. https://www.nfcc.org/
- StepChange Debt Charity. “Contact us.” https://www.stepchange.org/contact-us.aspx
