“To pray does not imply that without prayer God would not give us anything or that He would be unaware of our needs, but it has this great advantage, that in the attitude of prayer the soul is best fitted to receive the Giver of blessing as well as those blessings He desires to bestow.”
Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929) Indian Christian missionary in his classic work, At The Master’s Feet, 3.2.1.
We must learn to receive from the Lord in order to be generous distributors of material and spiritual blessings. How can we be “best fitted to receive the Giver of blessing as well as those blessings?” Prayer. Let us pray without ceasing (cf. 1 Thessalonians 5:15-18), and trust God for our daily bread (and everything else)!